Regional retailers are most vulnerable: The Wiz, in the Northeast, filed for Chapter 11 last month.
He played the Scarecrow in the 1978 movie version of "The Wiz, " and released the album "Off the Wall" in 1979.
After struggling as a musician, his first break came in 1972 when his composition Everybody Rejoice (A Brand New Day) was included in the hit Broadway musical The Wiz.
Not only is Cablevision conspicuously not a member of the CableLabs consortium, it also owns the Wiz electronics chain, which would presumably benefit from sales of set-top boxes.
The first successful reboot was Broadway's all-African-American "The Wiz" in 1975 (the basis for the 1978 movie, with Michael Jackson as the most sympathetic scarecrow since Ray Bolger in 1939).
With the same laid-back verve that has characterized his rocket rise to the rarest reaches of the rap world, Wiz took the audience through his latest work, occasionally punctuating the proceedings with his machine-gun chuckle.
Perched in a smoky penthouse recording studio in Chelsea last night as the sun slipped into the Hudson River below, Wiz Khalifa found himself in a milieu conducive to making grand pronouncements.
Other notable members less than half the age of Warren Buffet include hedge fund wiz John Arnold, 37, Daniel Ziff, 39, the youngest heir to William Ziff Jr.
" Elton John and Ed Sheeran teamed on "The A Team" and Miguel and Wiz Khalifa joined forces teamed up on "Adorn.
His own repertoire includes experience in management for Atlantic Record recording artists and founder of several businesses including Blue Ocean Live LLC, a concert booking and promotions company whose clients include the likes of Three 6 Mafia and Wiz Khalifa, as well as a private jet booking brokerage company called JJHC LLC, with impressive clientele that ranges from Justin Bieber to Snoop Dogg.
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As the listening party wound down, I asked Wiz how his new music would affect his bottom line.
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