NigerianDonDada
FFOE
What are you talking about on this album that hits closest to home when it comes to your life?
“The music industry,” he says. “You can say I'm sensitive, but music is why I live. Other people have kids or a strong woman in their lives; all I have is my music. I constantly work my ass off and I'm not in these magazines -- all I can go by is the people and what they say. People ask, ‘Why do you check social-media comments?’ But what else do I have, bro? I don't get no major articles. Nobody talks about Wale like that. So what do you do when you're busting your ass and taking pills to stay up and be able to provide the right energy, and you're not seeing the proper response?
What kind of pills?
“My confidence was shot, so I'd be taking whatever to keep me in a good mood, to get me in the right mood for an interview,” Wale adds. “I'm not going into the details as to what I was taking, but there's definitely something for that. Just like there's a fukkin' app for everything, there's a damn pill for everything. Or something you can pour in your glass. I was depressed not being where I wanna be in my career when I've put the work in. I wasn't sleeping. I was drinking all day and I didn't have anyone to go to. I couldn't fight it. Those are some of the demons I talk about on the album.”
On "The Matrimony" you rap about going through a miscarriage....
“The girl I was with, we tried for a long time to have a child. And when she finally did [get pregnant], she miscarried at 10 or 11 weeks. I was visualizing my child’s face. We gave it a name and everything. All of that went away. And a couple of months before that, one of my closest friends died in a car accident, a cousin that was there for me through blood, sweat and tears. So I go through all that and I go online and some white kid is saying, “You dumb ni—r, you’ll never be as good as J. Cole.” You put all that together…”
What else have you bee through?
Getting dropped from a label is only fun to people who can't feel it. [Wale was released by Interscope Records in 2010.] Everybody was laughing at Trinidad James when he got dropped. Damn, what if you lost your job today? What if your friend got shot at and crashed his car and wasn' picking up the phone? I was in tears when Ross go shot at [in 2013]. He doesn't even know that. I was scared. I was thinking the worst. He wasn't picking up the phone. But I was seeing people laugh at him on social media. That's my friend! Someone said [on Twitter], " I wish it had been you" when ASAP Yams died. What did I do to you? Is a retweet or laugh that important to you? I'm sensitive, okay? God gave me the ability to feel twice as much so I can write, twice as much maybe.
Your last album hit No.1. Do you think this album will get you the respect you want?
“I gave this my all,” Wale says. “I'm not trying to whine about being critically acclaimed or getting in the door, but it breaks my heart. Everyone says, ‘Be patient. It'll happen.’ But all signs are showing, ‘No, it won't happen.’ I'm okay with people not liking my music but provide an intelligent reason for why you like or don't like something or you're a hater or a dikk-rider. This is my fourth album. I want some respect. I want to go to a party and not have Katy Perry tell her security to move me out of the fukkin' way. We do the same thing. I know there's no union in the music industry, but have some respect. I want people to be like, ‘Your album's just as good as Kendrick [Lamar]'s or Esperanza Spalding or Beck.’ I work just as hard as them."
http://www.billboard.com/articles/c...-depression-the-album-about-nothing-interview
^Full Interview here
“The music industry,” he says. “You can say I'm sensitive, but music is why I live. Other people have kids or a strong woman in their lives; all I have is my music. I constantly work my ass off and I'm not in these magazines -- all I can go by is the people and what they say. People ask, ‘Why do you check social-media comments?’ But what else do I have, bro? I don't get no major articles. Nobody talks about Wale like that. So what do you do when you're busting your ass and taking pills to stay up and be able to provide the right energy, and you're not seeing the proper response?
What kind of pills?
“My confidence was shot, so I'd be taking whatever to keep me in a good mood, to get me in the right mood for an interview,” Wale adds. “I'm not going into the details as to what I was taking, but there's definitely something for that. Just like there's a fukkin' app for everything, there's a damn pill for everything. Or something you can pour in your glass. I was depressed not being where I wanna be in my career when I've put the work in. I wasn't sleeping. I was drinking all day and I didn't have anyone to go to. I couldn't fight it. Those are some of the demons I talk about on the album.”
On "The Matrimony" you rap about going through a miscarriage....
“The girl I was with, we tried for a long time to have a child. And when she finally did [get pregnant], she miscarried at 10 or 11 weeks. I was visualizing my child’s face. We gave it a name and everything. All of that went away. And a couple of months before that, one of my closest friends died in a car accident, a cousin that was there for me through blood, sweat and tears. So I go through all that and I go online and some white kid is saying, “You dumb ni—r, you’ll never be as good as J. Cole.” You put all that together…”
What else have you bee through?
Getting dropped from a label is only fun to people who can't feel it. [Wale was released by Interscope Records in 2010.] Everybody was laughing at Trinidad James when he got dropped. Damn, what if you lost your job today? What if your friend got shot at and crashed his car and wasn' picking up the phone? I was in tears when Ross go shot at [in 2013]. He doesn't even know that. I was scared. I was thinking the worst. He wasn't picking up the phone. But I was seeing people laugh at him on social media. That's my friend! Someone said [on Twitter], " I wish it had been you" when ASAP Yams died. What did I do to you? Is a retweet or laugh that important to you? I'm sensitive, okay? God gave me the ability to feel twice as much so I can write, twice as much maybe.
Your last album hit No.1. Do you think this album will get you the respect you want?
“I gave this my all,” Wale says. “I'm not trying to whine about being critically acclaimed or getting in the door, but it breaks my heart. Everyone says, ‘Be patient. It'll happen.’ But all signs are showing, ‘No, it won't happen.’ I'm okay with people not liking my music but provide an intelligent reason for why you like or don't like something or you're a hater or a dikk-rider. This is my fourth album. I want some respect. I want to go to a party and not have Katy Perry tell her security to move me out of the fukkin' way. We do the same thing. I know there's no union in the music industry, but have some respect. I want people to be like, ‘Your album's just as good as Kendrick [Lamar]'s or Esperanza Spalding or Beck.’ I work just as hard as them."
http://www.billboard.com/articles/c...-depression-the-album-about-nothing-interview
^Full Interview here
You rarely see a rapper spill his guts like this..dude sounds like a fukkin emotional wreck.
oh so that was you? Next time Ima have em stomp you out 
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