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Wiz Khalifa at Drai's Nightclub
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Wiz Khalifa × Drai's Nightclub
What to Expect: Wiz Khalifa at Drai's Nightclub
Wiz Khalifa — Cameron Jibril Thomaz, from Pittsburgh — performs at Drai's at The Vanderpump Hotel as a live hip-hop act rather than a DJ booking: he takes the stage with vocal delivery over DJ accompaniment, which means the performance dynamic at Drai's differs from a conventional nightclub DJ set. His catalog — See You Again from Furious 7 (2015, US number one for 12 weeks), Black and Yellow, Young Wild & Free with Snoop Dogg, Work Hard Play Hard, We Dem Boyz — carries the multi-year commercial exposure that translates to collective recognition moments during the set: tracks where the majority of the audience knows the words and the room's energy shifts from general crowd noise to directed attention.
Drai's Nightclub returned to its original basement location at The Vanderpump Hotel (formerly The Cromwell) in November 2025, closing the rooftop chapter that ran for several years and reopening underground with a reimagined multi-room concept. The current format divides the 11,000-square-foot basement space into distinct rooms — a hip-hop and R&B main room where live performances take place, an electronic music room running house and open-format programming simultaneously, and a hookah lounge providing a lower-energy zone within the same venue footprint. For a Wiz Khalifa appearance, the main room is the performance space — the electronic room and hookah lounge continue operating simultaneously under the single Drai's admission.
Drai's After Hours operates from 1:00 AM through late morning Thursday through Sunday — the venue's primary operational window is the post-midnight period when most Strip nightclubs are approaching closing time. Wiz Khalifa appearances at Drai's are scheduled during this after-hours programming window, which positions them as a continuation of an earlier Strip nightclub experience rather than as a standalone evening event. The intimacy of the 11,000-square-foot basement space — considerably smaller than Hakkasan's 80,000 square feet or OMNIA's 75,000 — means that even near-capacity occupancy at Drai's produces a closer performer-to-audience distance than large-room alternatives.
Guest list through NoCoverVegas for Wiz Khalifa at Drai's covers complimentary admission for qualifying guests during the first hour after doors (1:00 AM - 2:00 AM). Women receive complimentary admission all night under the NoCoverVegas guest list. Guest list sign-up closes at 8:30 PM on the day of the visit — advance registration is required for Friday and Saturday nights. Enter via The Vanderpump Hotel casino floor and follow directional signage to the Drai's elevator banks — the club is at basement level. Maximum 10 guests per individual registration. Valid government-issued photo ID required. 21+ only.
Artist Profile
About Wiz Khalifa
Cameron Jibril Thomaz — performing as Wiz Khalifa — grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where the city's hip-hop scene provided the cultural infrastructure for an artist who would go on to become one of the most commercially successful rappers of the 2010s. He began writing lyrics around age nine and recording original tracks several years later, developing a local following in Pittsburgh before his mixtape output attracted wider attention in the late 2000s. His breakthrough into national visibility came through a series of independently released mixtapes, most significantly Kush & Orange Juice (2010), which topped Google's Hot Search Trends list upon release and demonstrated sufficient commercial potential to attract the attention of Atlantic Records. After signing with Atlantic, Khalifa released Black and Yellow in 2010 — a Pittsburgh-themed hip-hop track that peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and became one of that year's most recognizable pop-culture moments, adopted immediately by Pittsburgh Steelers fans as an unofficial team anthem and embedded in American sports culture in a way that most hip-hop tracks never achieve. Rolling Papers, his Atlantic debut album released March 29, 2011, debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 and confirmed that his commercial appeal extended well beyond the hip-hop core. His lyrical and sonic identity — built around a laid-back, celebratory approach to life, touring, and personal freedom, accompanied by production that drew from the melodic, synth-forward West Coast rap tradition — gave him a distinct position in the mainstream hip-hop landscape of the early 2010s. Work Hard, Play Hard (2012) and We Dem Boyz (2014) extended his hit catalog, each earning platinum certification and demonstrating his ability to maintain commercial relevance across multiple album cycles. His most commercially significant and culturally resonant single arrived in 2015 when See You Again featuring Charlie Puth was commissioned for the Furious 7 film soundtrack as a tribute to Fast & Furious actor Paul Walker, who died in 2013. See You Again spent 12 non-consecutive weeks at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 — an unusual run that demonstrated the track's sustained cultural resonance rather than a single peak moment — and briefly held the record for the most-viewed YouTube video in history. The track's crossover appeal beyond the typical hip-hop demographic — carried in part by Puth's piano-and-vocal hook, which gave the production an emotional weight rare in hip-hop tribute songs — contributed to streaming totals that accumulated hundreds of millions of plays within weeks of release. His studio album catalog continued with Blacc Hollywood (2014), Rolling Papers 2 (2018), and subsequent releases, maintaining his commercial presence while he expanded his touring profile to include major festival appearances and Las Vegas residency bookings. His performances at Drai's Nightclub at The Vanderpump Hotel (formerly The Cromwell) on the Las Vegas Strip reflect his positioning within the live hip-hop concert format that has defined his Las Vegas presence for multiple years: live performance with DJ support, delivered in a venue purpose-built for the crossover between club atmosphere and concert energy. Drai's, which operates an underground basement at The Vanderpump Hotel (formerly The Cromwell), books live hip-hop and R&B performers as a central element of its programming identity — positioning it distinctly from the electronic music-dominated venues on the Wynn and MGM Grand campuses. Khalifa's laid-back stage presence and broad catalog appeal across multiple generations of hip-hop listeners make him a natural recurring booking at a venue whose audience spans from dedicated rap fans to casino visitors discovering its programming through hotel promotion. He also appears at Tao Beach at The Venetian for pool party dates during the summer pool season. Guest list through NoCoverVegas for Wiz Khalifa's Drai's Nightclub and Tao Beach appearances provides free entry for qualifying guests, with advance registration recommended for the high-demand dates around holiday weekends when Drai's books its most prominent live performers. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiz_Khalifa, draisgroup.com.
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