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Wiz Khalifa has taken the brave step of publicly admitting he believes the Earth is flat. The rapper made headlines this week after his appearance on The Joe Budden Podcast, where he said he believes we "live on a flat plane." And he didn’t stop there - he doubled down during another podcast appearance shortly after.
© GettyKhalifa’s reasoning, at least on Budden’s show, was based on personal experience: “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,” he said. “That’s the only reason I think that way.” When guest host Marc Lamont Hill asked if he’d ever seen the “edge” of the Earth, Wiz shifted into more abstract territory, suggesting there could be more land out there, referring to Pangaea.
Later, on the Bootleg Kev Podcast, he clarified that his beliefs are rooted in what he sees, not what he’s told: “I just believe more what I see than what I’m told, especially the older that I get. And the whole concept of space is way too big for my imagination anyway.” He also questioned scientists and the idea of trusting facts blindly: “It’s impossible, so you choose what you want to believe - even if they’re facts supported by, you know, scientists.”
Wiz added that when it comes to the shape of the Earth, “people choose what they want to believe,” and said his own belief is based on experience: “If you choose to believe what scientists say, cool. If you choose to travel and find out for yourself, or see as much as you can for yourself and base your beliefs off that, then that’s another choice—and that’s more or less what I did.”
According to him, every time he’s traveled, “I’ve only moved flat. I’ve only moved. And looking at the map and the routes that we take, it doesn’t seem like we’re going around anything—it just seems like we’re going straight. Over top of where it could look like a circle if you rounded it out, but if it’s just one thing, it connects exactly the same. So I just don’t see the difference.”
© GettyIn the end, he admitted, “I’m not sold on anything, but it’s just from my experience. It really doesn’t even matter to me all like that because I’m not leaving Earth anytime soon to find out.” He added that the shape of the Earth is just another thing people can argue about all day, because “nobody really knows.”
And just when things couldn’t get more conspiratorial, Khalifa brought up the “ice wall” theory - an infamous flat Earth belief that claims Antarctica is actually a massive ice wall that circles the outer edge of a flat Earth.
In this version of reality, the wall is supposedly thousands of feet tall and heavily guarded, keeping people from seeing what’s beyond. Believers often cite the Antarctic Treaty as part of a global cover-up and argue that space travel is fake and no one has truly seen the Earth from above.
Not the first celebrity flat earther
© GettyWiz isn’t the first celebrity to dip into flat Earth territory. NBA star Kyrie Irving said the Earth was flat in 2017 before later apologizing when he realized how seriously people took his comment.
Rapper B.o.B is arguably the most committed - he tweeted about it constantly, made a diss track called “Flatline,” and even tried to crowdfund a satellite to prove it.
Shaquille O’Neal also said the Earth was flat in an interview in 2017, then later claimed he was just messing with people.
Wiz, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to be trolling.
