Wale Q&A About Nothing
Wale Q&A About Nothing
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Honey: What’s going on?
Wale: Up early in the morning, Twittering. Seeing what everyone is talking about.
Tell me about your album.
It’s here. It’s done
How many tracks made the album?
14 tracks.
What story are you telling on your album?
I am actually glad that you asked that. My album is real life. It’s about relationships, the good side, the bad side. It explores relationships with women. There’s a record I have with Marsha Ambrosia, formerly of Floetry, called “Her Diary” about a woman scorned. Me, being a young single guy, you meet women, you know they want to like you but they can’t because they have been scorned. Basically it is a woman that is incapable of a first impression. She is going to see what she wants to see no matter what. If you’re too bad, then your bad. If you’re good, then your too good. Women with impossible standards, nothing that you do matters because she sees what she wants to see. Then you have songs about me being imperfect, or songs about me analyzing the world. It is a personal album from start to finish. The album is a combination of dope lyricism and reality.
What artists made the album?
K’nann and Bun B.
Black Ice Zippo Lighter
Is Kanye on the album? It seems like he would be perfect for the album.
He didn’t make it. I am going to leave it at that.
No, we can’t just leave it at that.
I called, and he didn’t call me back. Want me to call him right now?
Yes.
He posted me on his blog yesterday.
That is pretty huge.
[Ed note: Wale calls and leaves a voicemail thanking Kanye for the blog post and let’s him know about a record he wants him to hear.]
I would love to see a Wale and Kanye track. I follow you on Twitter, and one of your recent tweets was “don’t you feel like all the same rappers are on the same remixes?”
Yeah, the Rap Club. I feel like they are not trying to let the new guys break through, but it is what it is. I am not waiting for anyone to do anything for me. I came in this game by myself. I am in business with the most successful rapper of all time [Jay-Z] and I don’t wait for him.
Just grinding?
Just grinding.
In September, you were on the cover of XXL with 10 other new artist: the Top 10 Freshman. Tell me about that. Who are your people from that cover?
Cudi is my mans. Currensy is my man. Ace Hood is my man. B.O.B, Mickey Factz I am cool with….
What about Charles Hamiliton? What is that situation you got going on there?
Charles is umm you know…
I don’t know. Dont’ give me the PC answer.
He is a label mate. He makes interesting music and we will leave it at that because we are at Interscope Records right now.
It’s Drake Mania. How do you feel about Drake Mania?
This is just the way of the world. He was more famous than me and Cudi. He didn’t need XXL for people to check for him. Cudi didn’t need XXL because he had a huge record out. I needed XXL. I am the man where I am from. I’ve been selling out shows for five years in [Washington,] DC, but I needed XXL to take me beyond DC. Drake already had more MySpace plays than me. He is the Zach Morris of Degrassi. Drake was a lot of people’s guilty pleasure, especially girls. He is a light-skinned dude from Canada, his own country, and he is bff with Lil Wayne. It’s going to work. When the nigga came to my show at Highline Ballroom, and no one knew who he was, I knew he was going to blow. I am not mad. His success has nothing to do with me. It doesn’t hinder me at all. I don’t want to be an actor. I don’t want be a singer. I just want to rap and connect with the people, man. I am a dark-skinned African dude. I am not a clean cut pretty boy dude. Sometimes I am scruffy. Sometimes I am a pretty. Sometimes I am fly. It just who I am. Women dig me, but I am not about to sit up here and blush, and laugh for the camera. It’s cool. Cudi, me and Drake are different things. Their success has nothing to do with me
Coming from the new class, do you feel like they are your competition?
Absolutely not.
Why?
We’re separate genres of rap music.
What genre do you fall under?
I am unboxable.
Because you play with a live go-go band?
I just want to rap, make good music. I don’t strategically plan to make music that is ‘Yo, this is for the bitches’ [or] ‘this is for the niggas’ [or] ‘this is for the college kids.’ Nah, I just want to make the music and connect with the people.
Tell me about your Cool N Dre experience.
I love working with them. I am the most inspired when I work with them. I write quickly.
What about them inspires you?
Their energy, their attitude, their work ethic and being in Miami. I need scandal, don’t I.
Scandal is good. It’s the gift and the curse. What do you want? An R&B chick, pop singer, an ex stripper? You wanna put someone in a sex tape?
You’re calling shots
Not at all.
[phone rings] That’s a scandal calling me now.
She is not big enough.
Yo, tell these R&B chicks to stop calling me.
No R&B ladies.
No I’m chilling. I am from Chocolate City, so that is what I love.
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