All-Time High: Wiz Khalifa’s Next Big Step

Wiz Khalifa: Rising to new highs.

The first three paragraphs of this story appear in the January 21st issue of FORBES magazine.

Wiz Khalifa doesn’t usually wear dress shoes. But as the lanky rapper cycles through his options at a photo shoot, one pair catches his fancy—a black-on-matte-black-checked pair of Louis Vuittons—so stylish he’d consider buying his own. “I gotta take my two front teeth off my Christmas list,” he says with a laugh.

Khalifa doesn’t need to wait for Santa Claus. Fueled by...