That ambiguity lets people use it as a reference to the hip-hop collective based in the Taylor Gang Entertainment production company, Wiz Khalifa fans, and the lifestyle Wiz is promoting-Chucks and all. The term Taylor Gang can cause some confusion, but the vague definition given to it by Wiz makes that understandable. Taylor Gang is a gang in the “band of friends” sense of the word. Wiz Khalifa was a pretty quiet kid in high school and despite his heavy pot-smoking ways, he never got mixed up in criminal gang drama. The motto of the whole Taylor gang scene, including the production company, is Taylor Gang or Die, often abbreviated TGOD. Wiz brought out Taylor Gang, Skies, and Swae Lee. His label has signed Juicy J, a member of Three 6 Mafia, and up-and-coming hip-hop artists like Lala Monroe and Tuki Carter. In 2008, Wiz Khalifa started Taylor Gang Entertainment, a music and film production company based in Pittsburgh. As Wiz described it in a 2011 interview, Taylor Gang is a way of life involving getting high and making money. Taylor Gang is more than just a group identity, though. Wiz Khalifa (Cameron Jibril Thomaz), a rap artist known best for his 2011 hit “Black and Yellow,” came up with the name as a tribute to his Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania high school, Taylor Allderdice, as well as a reference to the Chuck Taylor shoes the artist favors. Taylor Gang was coined back in 2006 to describe Wiz Khalifa’s “crew” and his growing number of fans.
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