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A beedi ( /ˈbiːdiː/; from Hindi: बीड़ी; also spelled bidi or biri) is a thin, Indiancigarette filled with tobacco flake and wrapped in a tendu leaf tied with a string at one end.
The word comes from beeda, Marwari for a leaf wrapped in betel nuts, herbs, and condiments.
A traditional method of tobacco use throughout South Asia and parts of the Middle East, today beedies are popular and inexpensive in India. There, beedi consumption outpaces that of conventional cigarettes although these tobacco-filled leaves deliver more nicotine,carbon monoxide and tar and carry a greater risk of oral cancers.
Beedies accounted for 48% of Indian tobacco consumption in 2008.
Like all tobacco use, beedis increase the risk of certain kinds of cancers, heart disease and lung disease.
Indian tobacco cultivation began in the late 17th century, and beedies were first created when tobacco workers took left over tobacco and rolled it in leaves.
The commercial Indian beedi industry saw rapid growth during the 1930s probably driven by an expansion of tobacco cultivation at the time but also helped by Gandhi's support of Indian industry and Indian products. Perhaps due to this, educated classes in India grew to prefer beedies over cigarettes although this is no longer the case.Muslim leaders, calling cigarettes foreign products, have also endorsed beedies over cigarettes at times.
Cameron Jibril Thomaz (born September 8, 1987), better known by the stage name Wiz Khalifa, is an American rapper. He released his debut album, Show and Prove, in 2006, and signed to Warner Bros. Records in 2007. His Eurodance-influenced single, "Say Yeah", received urban radio airplay, charting on the Rhythmic Top 40 and Hot Rap Tracks charts in 2008. Khalifa parted with Warner Bros. and released his second album, Deal or No Deal, in November 2009. He released the mixtape Kush and Orange Juice as a free download in April 2010; he then signed with Atlantic Records. He is also well known for his debut single for Atlantic, "Black and Yellow", which peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. His debut album for the label, Rolling Papers, was released on March 29, 2011.
Khalifa was born on September 8, 1987 to a mother and a father serving in the military. His parents divorced when Khalifa was about three years old. His parents' military service caused him to move regularly: Khalifa lived in Germany, the United Kingdom, and Japan before settling in Pittsburgh where he attended Taylor Allderdice High School.
Hey yo, it's on, check my catalogue
Bully beats and share the songs
My kush strong I cut along
That gravel road, I travel along
Miniatures, y'all minimal
I kill them all, I finish all
They checking into my history
They found out I've been involved
... is with me, you fucking with me
Want me gone then come and get me
Can't hold me down, they know me now
Over grounds, over clouds
I'm too focus, you hopeless
Thinking now I might go move forward
They got 20 20 I'm a visionary
No dose, still picture mary
Boys say he too changed
I booze that, turn blue black
They heard this, like who's that
I put new school, that boo back
I'm moving out, turn it up
Till someone's saying that's too loud
I'm too hot, I can't cool out
... move crowds
My destination is top of the world
Top of the world
... I'm cold hearted, no die fear
Maybe different, my pop's here
Turn it up, no vouch here
Cheaper cloud my thoughts...
Still drop jewels, the chosen one
Like OC, my flow's numb
Work hard, these days long
... doll, I came... pray to god I'm king now
Don't smell loud, that hate, nah
Swallow it,... I'm real talk, no counterfeit
I came to buzz,... raging on, pay tomorrow
Ray bans like Ray Charles
Name brand like... I cut the bars like crayons
Wishing all this... y'alls is wasted
Good money take all the braces... so close that I can taste it
I'm high as hell, no tippy toes,
Molly paper, switch the road,... we dog wild
It's for the soul man
My destination is top of the world