* Birth name: Cameron Jibril Thomaz
* Born: September 8, 1987 (age 27) Minot, North Dakota,United States
* Origin: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
* Genres: Hip hop
* Occupation(s): Rapper, songwriter, actor
* Years active: 2005-present
* Labels: Rostrum, Taylor Gang, Atlantic and Warner Bros.
* His stage name is derived from Khalifa, an Arabic word meaning “successor”, and wisdom, which was shortened to Wiz when Khalifa was a young boy.
* Khalifa stated to spinner.com that the name also came from being called “young Wiz ’cause I was good at everything I did, and my granddad is Muslim, so he gave me that name; he felt like that’s what I was doing with my music.”
* He got a tattoo of his stage name on his 17th birthday; Khalifa began dating model Amber Rose in early 2011.
* The couple became engaged on March 1, 2012, and married on July 8, 2013. They have one son. On September 24, 2014, it was announced that Rose would be filing for divorce, citing “irreconcilable differences.
* Khalifa graduated from Pittsburgh’s Taylor Allderdice High School and in January 2012, purchased a home in nearby Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.
