Wale - HipHop Game Freestyle (prod. from 9th Wonder)
http://www.zshare.net/audio/105008717204fbb7/

4/14/2008 3:56:15 PM

Questlove says the Mixtape about nothing will be out 4/29

4/15/2008 12:28:34 PM

Quote :

"nightmaredz (4 months ago) Got on some Nike Bootz right now... SARATOGA ERRYWHERE. Whole time though but dat South side shyt dat Solja Boy and all dat iz really bubblegum stuff doe diz iz tru music from the soul ya digg this is some D.C. DMV SSG shyt. GET US. Wale will put the Metro Area on the top if it killz him."

4/15/2008 12:33:03 PM

SARATOGA ERRYWHERE.

4/15/2008 12:36:43 PM

Wale on Starz Hip Hop: Raw and Uncut
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eiV0lECvVw

4/15/2008 1:13:56 PM

Quote :

"nightmaredz (4 months ago) This joint crank. It'z Landova SARATOGA AND DEM UPOTOWN ROAMERS! MONTANA, WE AIN'T PLAYIN' WIT' 'EM! nightmaredz (4 months ago) {{SSG BAYBAY}} SARATOGA ALL DAY. This joint iz roccin. It's better den the joint on his myspace. He gonna put the capital on the map... And Murdaland... And D.C.... "Tabi Bonney" couldn't quite get the job done but Wale gonna get it in... 'Cuz these other bammas pussy like placenta. "

4/15/2008 1:33:17 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAOskNo13cA

4/16/2008 9:49:27 AM

i just called a club where he's playing a free show with Asheru here in DC in a few weeks and asked how I could get on a list or whatever to make sure I got in

and the dude at the club was like

who? Whale?

and i was like

[fail]

wa-lay

4/16/2008 3:56:40 PM

Quote :

" Wale From Henry Adaso, About.com D.C. whiz kid Wale will perform in his hometown. 1. Prev 2. Next Gallery Index Image 8 of 8 © Myspace.com Wale Date & Venue April 28, 2008 Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Movie Screening 8:30-10:30pm at ICC Auditorium, Georgetown University Music Show 11:00pm-1:00am at Five Club,1214 18th St NW #B"

probably going to this

WHALE IS HEADLINING!!11

4/22/2008 3:25:01 PM

Wale - The Perfect Plan
http://www.zshare.net/audio/1099554863ea9473/

4/24/2008 11:48:30 AM

http://www.elitaste.com/blog/2008/03/30/wale-mixtapes/

if anyone wants some of his older stuff, there's two other tapes here, below the 100 miles and running pic

4/24/2008 9:24:48 PM

going to see him tonight

YOU PROBABLY KNOW HIM FROM THE YOU KNOW

4/28/2008 3:35:45 PM

wale killed it

patron shots killed me

4/29/2008 11:19:21 AM

that is what my vision looked like as well

good set, i dont really remember what he played, but he had the Backyard Band (w/ Big G (Slim Charles from the Wire) backing him up...no DJ

4/29/2008 12:14:24 PM

mixtape about nothing now out 5/23

4/30/2008 12:14:58 PM

I got a plethora of neverending flow/
Unsigned at the time but I'm better than the pros/
I suppose, the veterans are slow/
LeBron has arrived, Rob Parrish gotta go

5/7/2008 9:43:35 AM

LEAVE WITH THE CAR

ALLEVIATE YOUR BRA

SUNFLOWER STYLE

PUT THE SEEDS IN YOUR JAW

5/7/2008 10:25:26 AM

http://blog.rhapsody.com/2008/05/exclusive-wale.html

Quote :

"Most unsigned rappers haven’t done remixes with Lily Allen, toured with Mark Ronson, or hung out with Lindsay Lohan. Then again, Wale (government name Olubowale Victor Akintimehin) wasn't just any another unsigned rapper. The D.C. native also graced the cover of URB magazine, had every blog that matters (and some that don’t) singing his praises, and received glowing endorsements from Jay-Z, Black Thought and Just Blaze. Above all else, he breathed fresh air into a genre that many have declared to be suffocating creatively. Need proof? Look no further than “W.A.L.E.D.A.N.C.E.,” where he spits over Justice’s “D.A.N.C.E.” Thanks to all this, Wale is no longer unsigned hype. First, he signed to Mark Ronson's Allido Records, and in March, he signed to Interscope. His Seinfeld-inspired The Mixtape About Nothing is due out soon, and his debut album is slated for a late 2008 release. Rhapsody got a hold of a very busy Wale. Here, he talks about less-than-supportive D.C. radio stations, hanging out with Jay-Z, and working with The Roots. Rhapsody: Coming into the game, how hard was it to get D.C. radio to play your records? Wale: Radio is fickle. I don’t get the support that I should. I got my record deal not from BDS spins. I got my record deal from generating a buzz outside of D.C. Every label said, "Well, you don’t get that many spins even in your market." I’d be back with the [program directors] at the stations asking them, "Why am I not getting spins if I’m selling out shows?" ... It breaks my heart because it’s like I’m doing what I can do for our area, but it’s almost like listening to a Top 40 station sometimes. I’ve never had a record added on rotation. [“Nike Boots”] never got added. [It was] on a mixshow, maybe four times a day. One of the PDs said I should’ve made a snap record. It’s an integrity thing and that sh*t’s not my style. It’s just the way of the world. If “Roc Boys” was anyone else’s record other than Jay-Z's, it wouldn’t have been as big as it was. And that’s probably my favorite song of last year. But if it was my first single from my first album, it wouldn’t have been able to hold up with all them T-Pain or T-Pain-assisted records because that’s what’s hot. The musicality of “Roc Boys” is not what’s poppin’ right now, but it’s Jay-Z, the greatest rapper of all time. People give Jay-Z that open ear. They won’t give no one like me or Skyzoo or Joell Ortiz or Joe Budden or Papoose the open ear. We have to conform. Records like “W.A.L.E.D.A.N.C.E.” don’t conform? I’m at the cusp where commercial meets underground. If a Jay-Z came out now, and he was 23 years old, he wouldn’t be Jay-Z. As great as he was, it’s just a whole other game right now. It took me going on tour and getting the tastemakers like URB magazine and FADER ... to get the ball rolling. It took Jay-Z telling everybody, "This guy is dope." It took people like Bun B, [Allido Records Co-Owner] Rich Kleiman and Mark Ronson to be like, "This is the next guy." It was a snowball effect. The percentage of people who are ahead of the curve in this entertainment business is less than 1 percent. Everybody is singing [Santogold’s] praises right now. There’s people who believed in Santogold and knew about her before even I did, and that was a year ago. Getting a record deal is almost like an artificial validation. Ain’t nothing really changed except I can go to Just Blaze and say we have a budget now. If Mark and them never picked me up, somebody else would’ve picked me up by now. When [Jay-Z] was like, "Your music is good," I felt like I was knighted then. Initially, Mark Ronson was going to produce your entire debut. What caused the shift in terms of you working with different producers? I’m not the type of person to sit around and wait. Mark is just extremely busy now. He just won three Grammys. It’s been a minute since I even talked to Mark. I’m sure he’s gonna come in and do some stuff on the record, but I’m not gonna slow him down. The record might have four joints from DJ Premier and one from Mark. But Mark is still gonna be overseeing everything as it’s progressing. But I’m not gonna wait for [Kanye’s] Glow in the Dark tour to end. I know Kanye is more rapper than producer now. So it might make more sense for me to do a song with him rapping rather than trying to get him to make beats when that’s not where his heart’s at right now. As far as Just Blaze goes, we’ve already knocked some stuff out, but he’s doing a Nat King Cole project. I’m getting in the studio with Pharrell in two weeks. I’m meeting with Primo. You moved to New York recently. What prompted that move? Just working. Get some food, write, listen to music, play a little video games, watch The Wire, repeat and studio. What part are you living in? Soho. That’s my habitat. [Laughs.] Shopping all day. Louis [Vuitton] is my new vice. I didn’t spend none of my advance, luckily. I just been spending a little show money. I spent about $9000. [The dopest sh*t I got is] these jeans I have on now. I wear them every single day. They’re so comfortable and look good with every single pair of sneakers I got."

5/9/2008 3:07:18 PM

Quote :

"It was interesting that, initially, when your father would hear your songs on the radio, you’d deny it was you. How come? It’s just weird talking to my parents about music. Nigerian culture ain’t really like that to be like, "Yo, so I’m a rapper now." Let them find out organically. I’m ashamed to be a rapper actually. It’s corny. It’s such a connotation that goes with it. He’s unintelligent, uneducated, stupid, shallow and misogynistic. It’s like shameful to be a rapper now. Have your parents grasped the concept that you’re famous? I’m not famous. I don’t really think I’ve done much. When I told my mother I got a record deal, I said, “Mom, my plane’s about to take off, but I just wanted to tell you I signed my record deal.” She’s like, “Oh, that’s nice. Where did you put the remote before you left?” She always asks me when I’m going back to school. So that kind of shows you that she doesn’t really get it. Being around Mark Ronson exposed you to a lot of celebrities. Is there anyone you felt star-struck around? Only person I’ve ever been like that around was Jay. I’ve had dinner with him a couple times. I just like it. I get weird. I just listen and watch. I watch how other people talk to him. It’s admiration ‘cause that’s the one person I’ve consistently always admired. Nas as well. In the same week, I got drunk with Nas and Jay-Z. Nas was handing me Patron and I was with Jay at him and Lebron’s Grammy dinner. That night, when I was going back to my hotel, I was like, "Jay-Z and Nas." That’s the one time I felt like, wow, I’m a lucky dude. What’s dinner convo like when you’re with Jay-Z? One time, we was at Cipriani’s. I was like, "Yo, Jay, if I bring my girl here, what do I order?" He was like, "You gotta order sea bass." Or we talk about sports a lot. He’s a big Cowboys fan and obviously I’m a Redskins fan. They always beat us. One time at Rich’s birthday, him and Beyoncé came through. So I acted like I ain’t seen him ‘cause I didn’t wanna hear no sh*t. He came and stood next to me and I looked at him. He was like, "So you not gonna say nothing?" [Laughs.] I was like, "What’s up?" He said, "Romo." And then he just walked away. I don’t even like really talking to him because I don’t wanna feel like I’m interviewing him. But I did ask him what was his favorite [song] off American Gangster. He said “No Hook.” I always wanted to see how he felt about his own music. You and the Cool Kids generated huge buzzes on the Internet while Lil Wayne was named the hottest rapper by MTV without even putting an album out. How important do you feel record sales are? I don’t really know that much about the Cool Kids. It’s potential. But potential is another word for “Ain’t Done Sh*t.” So it’s “Show and Prove” time for myself, Cool Kids and everyone else that has an “Internet buzz.” I don’t really know what an “Internet buzz” is. It’s the new way to give people your music without going in the streets and passing out CDs. The media has categorized acts like you, Kid Sister and Cool Kids as hipster rap. Commercially, do you see potential in hipster rap? Where I’m from, don’t nobody call me a hipster. I don’t know what a hipster is. If you [compare] Cool Kids and Wale, we don’t dress or talk nothing alike. ... It’s something totally different. They put us in a box. But what does that entail? I’m just a rapper that’s trying to represent Washington, D.C. If I happen to have over 400 pairs of sneakers, does that make me hipster? Is Clark Kent a hipster? He got a gazillion pairs of sneakers. I wear Louis Vuitton jeans. Does that make me a hipster? I’m sure Jay-Z and Nas got some Louis Vuitton jeans. I think if certain rappers would’ve heard the Justice instrumental without the words they would’ve gone crazy. Chuck Inglish of the Cool Kids made an interesting statement that we’re past the point of selling music. He’s settling. The brand is bigger than the actual music now, though. It’s more of a brand game than song game. “Pop, Lock & Drop It” was a big record. Huey sold 20 something thousand the first week ‘cause didn’t nobody knows who he was. That’s another reason people are doing 360 deals. They’re not signing artists for songs anymore. Who can be the next 50 Cent? 50 Cent might not be the greatest lyricist or greatest songwriter anymore. He was for a four-year span. ... But, 50 Cent has video games and is in movies with A-list actors. Do you care if you sell a million records? Record sales do matter to me. How many people care enough to get up and buy my record? It’s not the most important thing, but it does matter. ‘Cause at the end of the day, that and the Grammys is the respect that you want. A lot of fans don’t realize how important record sales is to people. I think Bobby Valentino and Shawnna just got dropped from Disturbing Tha Peace. If more people cared enough, ‘cause I know they got a lot of fans, they’d probably still have a deal. What was recording with the Roots for “Rising Up” like? It was very, very, very long because we recorded a lot of takes. They’re perfectionists. I aced the verse flawlessly the first three times. But they still wanted to hear different projections. We probably did it like 28 times. They told me when Erykah Badu did “You Got Me,” it was way more takes. It was enough to let me know that I might have been rushing in some [of my] sessions. "

5/9/2008 3:07:49 PM

The Mixtape About Nothing - May 30th

5/23/2008 11:17:51 AM

i love D.C. girls, but hate all the music. no matter what or who it is.

5/24/2008 2:52:11 PM

HOBO HUMPING SLOBO BABE

[Edited on May 24, 2008 at 4:12 PM. Reason : k ]

5/24/2008 4:11:17 PM

Quote :

"'Nothing': Something Special Wale Deftly Riffs on 'Seinfeld' Themes By Sarah Godfrey Special to The Washington Post Tuesday, May 27, 2008; C05 Leave it to Wale -- tight MC and unabashed "Seinfeld" fanatic -- to successfully mine a sitcom about a neurotic comedian fond of tight jeans and white sneakers for nuggets relevant to hip-hop music and culture. "The Mixtape About Nothing" can be appreciated by "Seinfeld" admirers who aren't so big on the hip-hop music and by heads unfamiliar with the term "shrinkage," but for those who are fans of both the music and the television show, the album's arrival is like Christmas, Hanukkah and Festivus all rolled into one. D.C. native Wale (who is signed to Mark Ronson's Interscope imprint, Allido Records) doesn't just rehash the most ubiquitous jokes and sayings of the show for laughs. The project, a freebie for download at Elittaste.com beginning Friday, is a tribute to a series as well as a look at mainstream hip-hop's struggle to overcome vacuity. The rapper lays out the mix-tape's basic premise on "The Opening Title Sequence": "If you love substance, you love Wale/But most [expletive] love nothing, so I made this tape." The intro also has Wale posing questions in Jerry Seinfeld stand-up fashion ("What's the deal with . . . ?"), examining everything from ring tones to Eddie Murphy's love life. Wale's queries are set to the show's bubbling, gassy theme song, and D.C.-area beatmakers Best Kept Secret, who skillfully handle production duties for most of the project, manage to tease out the previously unnoticed funkiness of a TV theme seared into our collective brain, thanks to nine seasons of shows and reruns that live on in perpetuity. Elsewhere, Wale uses slices of the series's hilariously inane dialogue about the minutiae of life as a jumping-off point to dig into serious business. "The Perfect Plan" begins with a snippet from an episode in which Jerry and his foil, George Constanza, devise a scheme to swap Jerry's current girlfriend for her roommate -- but Wale, over a go-go pocket beat, moves on to talk about the sinister plot to water down rap music. Soulja Boy features prominently, natch. Even the show's cast gamely gets in on the fun: Julia Louis-Dreyfus stops by and does a funny little drop, during which she curses and says she's Wale's "biggest fan." But not every "Seinfeld" player is treated as well. "The Kramer" rightfully skewers actor Michael Richards by rehashing his infamous comedy club rant as Wale riffs on racism and self-hatred. "The Mixtape About Nothing" sports tracks that aren't exclusive to the project. "Rising Up," Wale's collaboration with the Roots from their album "Rising Down," along with a remix of Wale's single "Nike Boots," featuring Lil Wayne, and the Ronson-produced "The Remake of a Remake (All I Need)" provide a break from thematic material. There is also fresh music not obviously tied to the "Seinfeld" premise, including Wale's shout-out to Baltimore club music, "The B-More Club Slam," produced by one of the genre's pioneers, Scottie B, and "The Star," a rip on e'erybody who expects a free ride on Wale's coattails. Even when "The Mixtape About Nothing" strays from its overall premise, it's gold. Wale is scheduled to perform at Merriweather Post Pavilion on July 27 (as part of the Rock the Bells tour)."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/26/AR2008052601752_pf.html

5/27/2008 9:02:22 AM

Quote :

"Julia Louis-Dreyfus stops by and does a funny little drop, during which she curses and says she's Wale's "biggest fan." "

That's awesome

5/27/2008 9:47:47 AM

http://10deep.com/WALEMIXTAPE/

[Edited on May 30, 2008 at 11:15 AM. Reason : Mixtape About Nothing]

5/30/2008 11:14:46 AM

more linky links

http://elitaste.com/blog/2008/05/30/ladies-and-gentlementhe-mixtape-about-nothing/

Mixtape download: http://www.elitaste.com/links/nothingtapewale/

5/30/2008 1:40:04 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFxSns_-ilY

W.A.L.E.D.A.N.C.E. live at the Mixtape About Nothing release party

6/5/2008 7:49:57 AM

Wale - I Luv Your Girl Freestyle
http://www.zshare.net/audio/134019346a3bbebf/

[Edited on June 10, 2008 at 11:39 AM. Reason : .]

6/10/2008 11:36:26 AM

Wale - Hey Mr. Carter
http://www.zshare.net/audio/13892138b6f7219f/

6/20/2008 7:50:28 AM

rik cordero is shooting a video for his mixtape.

sick.

6/23/2008 9:37:15 AM

so his he good? the stuff i heard i didn't like too much.

6/23/2008 11:05:09 AM

wale so g'd up

6/23/2008 3:25:52 PM

Wale - Artistic Integrity video dir by Rik Cordero
http://videos.onsmash.com/v/KF7JSTr1mdlv7luW

6/25/2008 3:58:01 PM

wale gets "breakdown" into the madden 09 lineup

http://elitaste.com/blog/2008/07/09/wale-to-be-featured-on-madden-09-soundtrack/

7/9/2008 2:07:34 PM

Wale feat. Young Chris - Whole Time
http://www.zshare.net/audio/1545102949bec88d/

7/16/2008 10:45:59 PM

Rhymefest feat. Wale - Ain't Heard It From Me
http://www.zshare.net/audio/15458423c0b7b164/

off the soon (hopefully) to be released El Che

7/17/2008 7:55:25 AM

http://www.expressnightout.com/content/2008/07/home_grown_wale.php

Quote :

" ARTS & EVENTS Home Grown: Wale AN ARRAY OF rap legends will grace Merriweather Post Pavilion during the Rock the Bells festival on Sunday: A Tribe Called Quest, Nas, De La Soul, three-eighths of the original Wu-Tang Clan. But Rock the Bells also provides a taste of the future, in the form of talented but less well-known MCs. The most intriguing among them may be Wale Folarin, a 23-year-old D.C. native who spits wildly inventive rhymes, often over beats juiced with go-go percussion. He had already garnered plenty of local and Internet attention before May, when he dropped his acclaimed "The Mixtape About Nothing" (whose Seinfeldian accoutrements include a drop from Julia Louis-Dreyfus). To join the pantheon, though, Wale must do more, and he knows it: "I want to present the best album ever, nahmean? You got to shoot for that." Though Wale (pronounced "Wah-lay"; don't say "Wall-ee") is grateful to be included in Rock the Bells — "I feel like that's the utmost respect that you can give to somebody my age and so young in my career. This is pretty much my summer school" — touring sometimes complicates his album work. "It gets kind of difficult to write, because I'm thinking about a lot of things. Sometimes it just comes quickly, but I never want to get into forcing it, you know what I'm saying? Or else it's just monotonous music, disposable music." The verbal pyrotechnics on "The Mixtape About Nothing" ("Zoom like Boosie / Higher than Bootsy / Get 'em inspired with the spiral looseleaf ... Autobiog that is bought up by y'all / They pressed for the ice, they Oksana Baiul") help to dispel such worries. But on the tape, Wale also ruminates on hip-hop's use of the n-word, romantic dilemmas and maintaining his integrity amid the hype. Expect more such content on the album: A song he's recording with Chrisette Michelle, "Shades," discusses "the racism within our own race." (He promises that "Chrisette's killing this hook right now," too.) Growing up, Wale moved from D.C. to the soft middle of Montgomery County; he currently calls Largo home. "I feel like if I would have stayed in the geographical D.C. — I say the geographical D.C. 'cause the metaphorical D.C. is D.C., Maryland, Virginia — I might not have known a lot," he says. "That's what makes me the person that I am, that I understand the suburban side of it and the urban part of it, the city's part of it." His love for the DMV goes beyond his curly-W Nats cap or Northeast Groovers samples. When the album drops in early 2009, he says, "I want D.C., Maryland and Virginia to be proud. At this point, I'm not gonna rest until people like UCB see significant success, people like Marky, Circle Boys, Southeast Slim. Until other people in this village that we call D.C. start succeeding, too, then I don't consider myself much of a person, much of a flag-holder or ambassador." » Merriweather Post Pavilion, 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia; Sun., 11 a.m. (doors), noon (show), $40-$83; 800-551-7328. Written by Express contributor Andrew Lindemann Malone » Download "The Mixtape About Nothing" for free: http://elitaste.com/blog/2008/05/30/ladies-and-gentlementhe-mixtape-about-nothing/"

7/24/2008 9:56:32 AM

Young Chris feat. Wale - Large
http://www.zshare.net/audio/15855384da502b85/



woooooooooooooo

except why does Young Chris want to 100% bite Hov's flow?

7/24/2008 11:48:03 AM

lil wayne is fucking terrible

7/24/2008 12:15:19 PM

Wale - Back To the Feature Mixtape

http://www.zshare.net/download/61605401574105cb/ "

6/20/2009 4:22:45 PM

nice! thanks

6/20/2009 6:43:22 PM

thx spookyjon. i let it die for a while

its such a good mixtape

6/20/2009 6:51:30 PM

i hope everyone on tww downloaded this

6/22/2009 9:43:50 PM

wale + 9th = good shit

6/23/2009 9:42:40 AM

Attention Deficit - Sept 22nd

Wale - Pretty Girls
http://www.zshare.net/audio/622620706db146ad/

sounds a lot like a reworking of One Thing About A Player off Hate Is The New Love. love UCB & Tre on it as always

7/7/2009 7:37:25 PM

bttt pushed back to Oct

8/17/2009 4:02:49 PM

goddamnit

8/17/2009 4:19:57 PM

Wale - World Tour (feat. Jazmine Sullivan)
http://www.zshare.net/audio/64839274d919594a/

[Edited on September 16, 2009 at 2:05 PM. Reason : second official leak/release from attention deficit (not counting Pretty Girls)]

9/16/2009 2:04:43 PM

This out today?

9/22/2009 9:05:30 AM

early november now. he pushed it back to go on tour with Jay-Z and Lupe

original "official" release date was 10/20

[Edited on September 22, 2009 at 9:10 AM. Reason : .]

9/22/2009 9:09:15 AM