Last year, Wale randomly turned up on "No Hands", a strip-club track from crunk revivalist Waka Flocka Flame when Wale put the song on his mixtape More About Nothing, he called it "The Guilty Pleasure". But then Wale's hyped-up official debut album, 2009's Attention Deficit, was a stylistic jumble that bricked hard commercially and didn't make good on his promise with critics, and his last few mixtapes have lacked a clear direction. 2008's The Mixtape About Nothing took its "Seinfeld" theme as an unlikely jumping-off point and ended up on plenty of year-end best-of lists. rapper first came on the scene, he was a hero to a certain kind of fan- a conscious rapper who talked about sneakers just as easily as he talked about struggles, and one who seemed comfortable rapping over different styles but who remained tied to his city's grassroots go-go scene. ![]() Wale's short career has taken some weird and fascinating turns.
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