Wale - The Album About Nothing (Discussion Thread) *Stream*
So i just finished a full listen and this is by far Wale's most cohesive album. Great content throughout and i feel like this was a deep album for him. (I saw him say how nervous he was about it the other day, and i can understand why).
Im giving this a 4 right now, and i think its better overall than the gifted (which i loved) because it doesnt trail off towards the end, where i feel like the gifted had better high points imo. But this is a really good effort by folarin and im gonna go cop and support
Im giving this a 4 right now, and i think its better overall than the gifted (which i loved) because it doesnt trail off towards the end, where i feel like the gifted had better high points imo. But this is a really good effort by folarin and im gonna go cop and support
He's definitely matured as an artist, I thought he slipped with Gifted after having a strong showing with Ambition
Dope album. How is there not a video for The Matrimony ? Usher backbut yea thats the perfect single to follow up The Body with. The radio just started playing it recently so thats a good look. The ladies gon love that joint.
wasn't feelin the R&B songs by themselves, but with the album they sound amazing... i stay singing that matrimony hook
Young Bishop
Piff Poster
wale did his thing on this album. I guess this will be my fourth album in rotation with Lupe,Krit,and Kendrick.
Merkwood
Rookie
the girls on drugs 
Black Gatsby
Lord$ Never Worry
Album is fukking dope. Song with SZA is a floater 
LordTaskForce
All Star
gifted was nice. i think people had issues with clappers and black heroes on it together.
it really didn't seem like it was pieced together
phrank kastle
All Star
It's back up, bruh
Still FloW
Gawd Of Shinobi
on my 5th listen as a whole and it keeps on getting better...
my favs keep on changing... right now im feeling ''THE BLOOM'' so much, the poetry, the hook that ol dude laced on a hunned
aannd Wale killing it... as a whole its smoooooth
my favs keep on changing... right now im feeling ''THE BLOOM'' so much, the poetry, the hook that ol dude laced on a hunned
aannd Wale killing it... as a whole its smoooooth
Clappers is a go-go party record. He intentionally put it on there to pay homage to the DC area sound and to have at least one radio hit. I don't think it's fair to hold it against the album for that ONE song. How many classic records have we given pass to for having that one "ehhhh" song? Some even have more than one.
My problem with Ambition was that too many of the songs was about...well....ambition lol and swagger rapping. I like it, but the majority of it was just "I'm better than the haters and my bytches love me" material. With the exception of like....Chain Music and DC or Nothing. Now, it was uplifting and inspiring as heck, but it wasn't diverse. It lacked depth, and it followed up a really deep and diverse project (More About Nothing), so the fans didn't really fukk with it. Gifted, on the other hand, had a song about being gullible, the mind set of hustling drugs(Bricks), a song about the shallowness of material things (Vanity), an uplifting black record (Black Heroes), a marijuana record (Rotation), a song about the fickle relationship between love and hate (love hate thing), a love record (tired of dreaming), and a song where he freaking raps from the perspective of a Jesus piece chain. The album is much deeper, much more diverse in both sound and subject material, and far more mature. I can look past Clappers to enjoy the overall product. I think Gifted got lost in the shuffle because it came out right after yeezus and Born Sinner, and right before Magna Carta. I think Gifted is way better than all those albums. I also think that the unorthodox production was off putting for some.
Ambition is for people who like self-centered, materialistic, ambitious Wale. Gifted for people who like introspective and conscious Wale. TAAN and MAB are both more like Gifted in themes and feel than they are like Ambition.
Just my 2 cents.
meek mill is better than this trash