Most of them don’t even know what that is.” His first album Attention Deficit wasn’t well received, commercially speaking, but his follow up Ambition which saw him switch to a more southern, trap style beat selection was much more successful. As my younger brother who is 21, and a Wale fan himself, said “Dudes my age don’t care about a double entendre. If you ask most people late twenties and up you will probably see Scarface and Devin The Dude and Bun B ranked as the favorite rappers.Įnter Wale whose style lends itself to the very East Coast rap style the majority of his own city does not openly embrace. There’s a reason one of Wale’s favorite topics is the “haters in his home who don’t support him”. Even when it comes to rap music the climate here has always lent itself more too southern and west coast rappers than East Coast rappers. If you want to be a well known rapper here you have a better chance of it happening being in a Go-Go band than actually being a traditional rapper. See there’s a rule here in DC, I was born in DC and have lived and around the city my entire life and that is that our own homegrown Go-Go music, centered on percussions and a conga set up unique to Go-Go music alone, rules above all. Wale is in the midst of accomplishing something no other rapper from Washington, DC has done before, be successful.
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