Wale: the new justified hype or another bloghop streetwear fashion rapper?

my god can't it be BOTH

nobody?

hadn't heard of him, seems okay based on his myspace stuff...kind of generic east coast dude w/maybe some kanye type flow/funny punchline stuff. i dunno, i wish he was as go-go influenced as the wikipedia thing says he is supposed to be...is he a big deal? i must be out of it...

okay this last song ice cream girl has the go-go beat, that's pretty cool, reminds me of some old salt-n-pepa/EU type joint with kanye type dude rapping.

http://homepage.mac.com/onehundredbhq/.Public/whale.jpg

i think his 100 Miles & Runnin' mixtape is rather easy to get a free copy of. there's a bit of go-go stuff on the tracks i heard, but it was mostly old beats. fader's totally on his nutz, but that doesn't really mean anything.

what do you think

of these sorts of gimps i didn't mind 'party works' by this guy, but whatever really

if you call someone a "bloghop streetwear fashion rapper" do you think anybody is going to be fool enough to admit they know who he is?

he's actually pretty good. his flow goes back and forth between (better than) kanye's and nas', but the more i listened to his lyrics, i heard him talk about his raw denim and Cloak gear and all these other name brands. i dunno. i guess streetwear (i'm friends with diplo) rap is the next backpacker

or as Complex calls it "Extra Smedium"

what does "extra smedium" even mean

http://www.complex.com/STYLE/Street-Detail/HOPSTERS-RULE

Introducing the "HOPSTER"-the hip-hop-reared streetwear fiend who ain't afraid to rock Bloc Party and a smedium T-shirt. This means YOU.

my friend did lighting on this kid sister video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SknAj3dVzc4

just posting so moonship doesnt think i'm too chicken to admit i know of hipster rap

also man do the cool kids suck

weren't you trying to school people on saucony being better than new balance? i know you know hipster rap.

Wale lives at home with his parents in my hometown of Bowie, Maryland, a DC suburb. Before Mark Ronson discovered him and Entertainment Weekly proclaimed him the big thing he was a DC rapper...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/19/AR2007101900655.html

weren't you trying to school people on saucony being better than new balance? i know you know hipster rap.

-- moonship journey to baja, Thursday, December 6, 2007 12:31 AM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

saucony used to have cred!!!

he's pretty good. seems like a more clever rhymefest.

that 100 miles tape is probably still on zshare if you google search for it.

if you call someone a "bloghop streetwear fashion rapper" do you think anybody is going to be fool enough to admit they know who he is?

-- moonship journey to baja, Thursday, December 6, 2007 12:34 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Link

hahaha!

cool kids have great beats

can flow too

lyrics are suspect.gif

adding .gif to something doesn't make it funny

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.com

rhymefest is clever!

dudes, so you know .com and grizz from 30 rock? grizz is dude's real name! :D

ya i know!

tracy morgan commentary!

(or alternately, credits)

theyre tracy morgans boys from back in the day... i think grizz was like the bouncer at a comedy club or something

btw suspect.gif is a ref to http://www.soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/suspect5es.gif

"i spit selvage, it's in my jeans"

ugh

"The Opening Title Sequence" is nice, but man this album falls off quick

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilpmReOp2Jk

one of the dopest songs i heard this year

no ... really?

that beat is all over the place

listening to tape again and dude just bores me

i feel obligated to like this but i can't help feeling it was tuesday night and dude went 'i wanna rap' and he recorded this thursday morning

i know he's been around for a minute, but his stylistic tics make him come off amateurish to me

dude is boring dude

I'm not crazy about this guy and he's kind of a dick to other D.C. rappers, but he's definitely talented and way out of the league of Cool Kids or whatever. The Roots' faux go-go song w/ Wale on it is so much better than any Wale song with a go-go beat, but his token Baltimore club track is kinda fun.

I can understand being excited to be photographed with Jay-Z, but dude should really beware of being mistaken for Memphis Bleek:

http://pisforprops.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/jayz_wale_bunb.jpg

I fast forward through the "Seinfeld" bits, but that mixtape is one of my favorite things this year.

anyone who is on the fence about this dude should "unbutton" him in levi's lame ass viral crap ads and you won't have any doubts

that he's corny

http://www.levi.com/perez/

"inspiring others through celebrity blogging wizardry"

i think i said this on another thread but he always sounds like he's recording immediately after he was awaken from a nap

that said i heard his "roc boys" freestyle and i guess he can flow aight but he seemed pretty lifeless even over that beat

awoken??

anyone who is on the fence about this dude should "unbutton" him in levi's lame ass viral crap ads and you won't have any doubts

― haven't you all heard? (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Tuesday, October 7, 2008 11:45 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha yeah those fucking ads. like i said, he's not bad, and if i heard the whole mixtape i'd probably like it, but i'm sure he'll cross over to total corniness by the time his official shit with Mark Ronson comes out.

*pops popcorn, waits for aaron lacrate zing*

loool

where are people talking about "chillin"?

autogoon thread is tl/dr

no one really talks about wale in autogoon because he's fucking wack

this guy sounds bored with his own raps so i dont bother

it's so much more fun to pronounce his name as whale.
try it.

yah fukk this dude imho

haha i like that chillin song actually. i think i said so on autogoon.
but i felt a little dirty about it.

which of these rappers from xxl's "freshman 10 of 2009" are you the most sick of?

Wale spent an hour on D.C. radio yesterday hyping up the premiere of his new single which:

* features Lady Gaga

* is produced by Cool & Dre

* samples "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye"

it was fun sticking up for you as one of the more defensible guys on the XXL cover for a few months, Wale! it was a good run while it lasted.

― dom sued (some dude), Saturday, March 21, 2009 12:50 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

WORK IT

all these years later I still pronounce Wale as "whale" in my head

I still write Whale as "whale"

i think i said this on another thread but he always sounds like he's recording immediately after he was awaken from a nap

― a passion for posting (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, October 7, 2008 11:54 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

Lotus Flower Bomb is still one of the shittiest singles ever, though I liked some of the tracks on Ambition. haven't heard the newest one.