Wiz Khalifa, 23 year-old star released his new major label debut. Hook-saturated and amiable, “Rolling Papers” takes the hip-pop trend advanced by artists such as B.o.B. and runs with it; this is a hip-hop album for people who didn’t think they liked hip-hop albums.

Under the aegis of pop producers such as Stargate (the team responsible for Katy Perry’s “Firework,” perhaps one reason the disc is closer to Perry’s vibe than to, say, Eminem’s).

“Rolling Papers” serves up singsongy playground hip-hop and a bumper crop of synthy jams, none of which displays an ounce of excess energy or a hint of venom, even the ostensibly mean ones. On “Rolling Papers,” everything is shiny, everything is cool, everything is mellow. There are even songs on it that sound like love songs.

Recommended tracks: “Roll Up,” “Black and Yellow,” “The Race”.

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