1 on the issue dated February 19, 2011, selling 198,000 digital copies that week. On its eighteenth charting week, the song rose to No. It then dropped out the following week and re-entered at No. On the issue dated October 2, 2010, "Black and Yellow" debuted at No. The song earned Khalifa his first Grammy nominations, for Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance at the 2012 ceremony. At Super Bowl XLV in 2011, which featured the Steelers competing against the Green Bay Packers, the Steelers used "Black and Yellow" as their fight song, while the Packers used a remix by Lil' Wayne called "Green and Yellow", marking the first time both teams at the Super Bowl had used the same song. and internationally, many of them made in tribute to a local sports team. In the year after it was released, "Black and Yellow" spawned dozens of remixes, parodies and remakes, both in the U.S. The song itself does not mention Pittsburgh or sports, although the song's music video made the connection to Pittsburgh explicit, showing various iconic locations in the city, as well as apparel associated with the football team the Pittsburgh Steelers, the hockey team the Pittsburgh Penguins, and the baseball team the Pittsburgh Pirates. He has stated that he got the car in those colors as a tribute to his hometown of Pittsburgh, whose official colors are black and gold, and its professional sports teams, all of whose colors are black and some variation of gold or yellow. The song is about growing up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and also Khalifa's car, a yellow Dodge Challenger Hemi with black stripes. The song peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Wiz Khalifa's first number-one single in the US. It was released as a CD single in honor of Record Store Day. The song was written by Khalifa, along with Stargate, who produced it. It was released on September 14, 2010, as the lead single from the album. " Black and Yellow" is a song by American rapper Wiz Khalifa from his third studio album, Rolling Papers.
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