Wiz khalifa said that smoking weed helped him to finish school

"I started smoking weed everyday when I was 16. In Highschool, I hated school and I was so much done with it. I was selling pot and my mum found out and she was low-key super cool with it. It was like I smoke, you smoke, we smoke. It actually helped me get through school and make it as a rapper. I was able to deal with the things that I didn't wanna deal with. I was an intelligent kid but I just didn't like school."

Wiz KhalifaCameron Jibril Thomaz (born September 8, 1987), known professionally as Wiz Khalifa, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter and actor said this in an interview.

He stated his career of singing in 2006, and signed to Warner Bros. Records in 2007. His Eurodance-influenced single, "Say Yeah", received urban radio airplay, charting on the Rhythmic Top 40 and Hot Rap Tracks chart.

s in 2008, becoming his first minor hit.