Artist: Wale
Album: Hate Is The New Love
Year: 2006
Label: Studio 43
Tracklist:
1. Intro
2. Uptown Roamers
3. Pimp Hard
4. The Hater
5. You
6. Grammy Family
7. A.D.D. Pt. 2
8. Lucky Me
9. One Thing About A Playa
10. I Think Crazy
11. Cougar Beak Speaks Out
12. Studio 43
13. Breakdown
14. Politix
15. She's Not Mine (Throwback)
16. The Light
17. Kicks
18. Daytona 500 (Sneakaman Dan Anthem)
19. 'Cause I'm African
20. Freaks
21. Outro
Before getting the attention of Mark Ronson and Jay-Z. Before the U.S. tours. Before the bunk mixtape (Back To The Feature) and the slight above average debut album (Attention: Deficit). Way back in 2006, Wale was just an upcoming rapper from the D.C. metro area. He was just dealing with the local haters and reppin' North Face Jackets and Nike Boots (better get me).
This is one of the best mixtapes I've ever heard. Mr. Folarin's flow is in rare form. Full of D.C. references that you wouldn't get unless you've lived here and his quirky humor ("Wale don't deal with beef, young/I roll with some [neighbors] that will make em vegan"). This mixtape has the best collection of borrowed beats that I've ever seen. He borrows Lloyd's "You" , 8 Ball & MJG's "Pimp Hard" (a southern classic, get into it), Ghostface's "Daytona 500", DJ Khaled's "Grammy People", among other greats. On top of those single songs he gives you the "rhyme of the century" on "A.D.D., Pt. 2" where he flows for 10 mins on 9 different beats. Two of those beats are from DJ Don Cannon (to see me rant about how much I love this man go here).
This bangah has what his Attention: Deficit is missing, raw rhymes over gritty (more hood even) beats (see "Uptown Roamers") and straight up go-go. With that said, it's still good and I totally suggest you all go pick up his album and help him put D.C. on the map.
-Trey
8 comments:
wale sucks, man.
Wale does not suck. I might be geographically required to like him. But I will admit that the road he is currently going down is the back pack/pop hip-hop road to suckdom.
But you should hear this. He is younger and harder.
seconded!
-Adam
also, Sara was like "who's 'Whale'?"
what a herb.
a herb indeed
he's just completely uninteresting to me. he has zero charisma and his rhymes just don't do it for me. i never listened to this one though, so i'll give it a shot.
You should give it a try. Tell me how you feel about it when cold world plays dc. I'm definitely going to be there.
Trey, this is excellent. I have been looking for some older Wale to listen to and you have delivered. Wale does not suck, the man knows how to rhyme very well and he has some pretty awesome ones on this Mixtape.
Thank you for not letting us hip-hop fans down.
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