5. This Is PG?
On paper, it probably sounded like a good idea: Pittsburgh native and rap superstar Wiz Khalifa is a wrestling fan, so bringing him on to host and perform a couple songs would be a natural fit, right? But if anyone in WWE read Wizs song lyrics, they would see that he might not deliver a PG-friendly performance. That is not at all a knock against Khalifa as a musician. Hes extremely successful and fans watching live in Steel City enjoyed the mini-concert. And Wiz clearly was one of the most interactive guests WWE has had, lapping the ring area and slapping hands with fans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as4I_DvAM8s Wizs first song, We Dem Boyz, included numerous drug references (though he covered up a few), and a line about white girls gimme becky, which is a reference to oral sex. Again, this is not the morality police. This is solely a jab at WWE, which bills itself as family-friendly PG programming, not doing its homework about song selection.
Scott Carlson
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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
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