Wiz Khalifa seems to believe that the Earth is flat.
The Pittsburgh rapper is rolling out his latest album Kush + Orange Juice 2 and stopped by The Joe Budden Podcast to discuss a variety of topics — one of which is the age-old (and centuries-ago-answered) question: Is the Earth flat or round?
There’s clip floating around from the popular podcast’s exclusive Patreon episode where co-host Melyssa Ford asks Wiz straight up if the Earth is round. “I would say no,” he answered. And when she asked what shape the planet is, Wiz replied: “I just believe that we live on a flat plane, like a huge flat plane.”
He further elaborated after receiving an agreeable dap from co-host Ish and said he believes this “flat plane” theory because of how much he travels. “It’s only because I’ve traveled so much.” However, when guest host and academic Marc Lamont Hill asked him if he’s ever reached the edge of the Earth, Khalifa tried to clarify his point. “Nah, it’s not that. I think that there’s more masses than just what we see because it was one thing before and it spread out,” he tried to explain as he referred to the supercontinent Pangea.
He continued by saying that there has to be way more land mass out there that humans haven’t discovered, adding, “Because when I travel, the routes that we take and how we do it, it’s not possible to go up and down. You’re just going straight. That’s the only reason I think that.”
He also questioned space exploration in general. “I don’t believe in space exploration at all,” he admitted. “I don’t believe that they explore space as much as they say that they do.”
The subject came up because the pod has been discussing the Flat Earth Theory recently — something they’ve done in the past — and Marc Lamont Hill had gotten into it with a Flat Earther on his YouTube series Night School Debate.
For what it’s worth, the conversation wasn’t that serious and fans jokingly pointed out that Wiz used a round Earth on the cover of Kush + Orange Juice 2.
Check out our recent interview with Wiz where we talked about his run of freestyles and his latest tape.
