Locals Only Interview w/ Rapper Big Oz!

It didn't take long for Omar Azizi to establish himself as the biggest presence in a room. He easily outweighed his fellow newborns in a LA hospital nursery, tipping the scales at 12 pounds. Twenty-eight years later, the Irvine rapper known as "Big Oz" towers onstage, thanks to an imposing 6-foot-6, 285-pound frame. The Afghan-American rapper now stands poised with outsized ambitions to chart a continental reach with his rhymes.

Read more on my latest Locals Only feature in the OC Weekly out on newsstands. If outside the distribution area, click the link below:

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/heardmentality/2014/10/the_great_and_powerful_big_oz.php