The Gifted certainly took a step in that direction for Wale (pronounced wah-lay), debuting at No. “I guess that’s what success is, doing better than the previous, or equally as well as the previous, album.” “That’s my biggest, like my spiel, is doing better than my last album,” Wale says. He named his second album Ambition, after all.Īnd on his recently released third CD, The Gifted, he touches on the subject on the more-or-less title song, “The Curse Of The Gifted,” saying, “Success is like a never-ending battle” and “to top all of my last shit is all that I ask of.” These included the Asics “Bottle Rocket,” the Timberland “Gift Box Set” and the VILLA x Wale x ASIC Gel Lyte III “IC Champion.” Wale’s label imprint, Every Blue Moon, encompasses the scope of his creative vision with musicians, comedians and screenwriters under its umbrella.Rapper Wale has never made a secret of his desire to have each of his albums outsell the others and attain major popularity. Expanding his cultural influence, Wale teamed up with Villa for a limited-edition line of sneakers. A regular guest of the First Family, he participated in First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Reach Higher” initiative for higher education as well. Wale also made history as “the first rapper to open the State Of The Union,” gracing the stage with an unforgettable performance before President Obama’s final State Of The Union Address. What’s more, Wale has accumulated over 7 million monthly listeners on Spotify and has reached over half a billion channel views on YouTube. Wale continues to break ground with the release of 2019’s critically-acclaimed Wow… That’s Crazy, which includes #1 single “On Chill” featuring Jeremih.

To date, Wale has achieved four platinum or multiplatinum singles, three gold singles and two gold albums. Along the way, Wale covered magazines such as Complex, Billboard, XXL and Vibe, and would receive honors at the BET Awards, BET HipHop Awards, Soul Train Awards and more. Shine gave the world “My PYT,” which is RIAA certified platinum, as Wale continued dropping heat. Bowing at #2 on the Billboard 200, the now-classic and gold-certified Ambition yielded the GRAMMY® Award-nominated platinum-selling “Lotus Flower Bomb.” Two more blockbusters followed as The Gifted and The Album About Nothing both crashed the Billboard 200 at #1 back-to-back. 2008’s inventive Mixtape About Nothing cemented him as a critical favorite and preceded the major label debut Attention Deficit in 2009. An old school lyricist with new school energy, otherworldly hooks and a sense of irony tailormade for its own Seinfeld episode, he instantly set himself apart. Since arriving in 2006, he has consistently gone against the grain. Wale continues to break ground with the release of 2019’s critically-acclaimed Wow… That’s Crazy, which includes #1 single “On.

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