“The Need To Know” talks about a more promiscuous side of relationships: the open relationship. Off white picket fences, on flights with the children" My ex before you married too, you solo, I say so longīut it surely put a dent on how I worry about this business This is hard, tryna find some time to move onĬause when we lost our baby, I got shady, shit got too dark "Went from fallin' in love to drunk and fallin' apart On "The Matrimony," Wale rhymes about his relationship with Solange, and how he felt when she settled down with another man. It’s anything but a "player’s ball," but listening to Wale embrace his emotions for the females is hardly a new thing. Speaking of Usher, the album’s closing track, and the second single of the album, dives into the topic of marriage. Alongside the likes of Jeremih, Miguel, Lloyd, Ne-Yo, and Usher, Wale has found a niche in this style. Ever since Ambition, Wale has embraced the poetry-fueled cuts for the ladies, and let’s be perfectly honest, he does a pretty great job of the R&B/hip-hop crossover. “The Body,” the lead single featuring Jeremih, only appears on the album as the bonus track, but it fits in with the latter half of The Album About Nothing’s tracks. Wale’s style isn’t inherently "druggy" like a lot of rap’s modern kingpins, and he still puts a couple joints for the ladies on there. The album continues to play with that super-slow tempo that everybody from Drake to Earl Sweatshirt has been messing with lately. The beats are surprisingly cohesive when you take into consideration the fact that different producers created them all, essentially. Osinachi, Jake One, AyyDot, Reazon, DJ Khalil, and Sonny Digital appear on the credits once each. There’s a bunch of lesser-known beat-makers who Wale is looking to for beats. Looking at the album’s credits, few of rap’s most hyped producers are present on the album. It also appears to be as natural of a progression from The Mixtape About Nothing and More About Nothing as you could expect, given we are five years removed from the latter. Although you could still attribute those labels to the album’s tracks, it does appear to be a little bit more cohesive than his past albums. Definitely expecting more work from Wale in the future.With The Album About Nothing, Wale seems to be trying a little less hard to make one for the thugs, one for the hip hop heads, one for the club, one for the backpackers, etc. Wale definitely did his thing, and this is a great body of work from the MMG artist. Overall I give this album an 8/10 ranking.
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My favorite song off of the album - and what I think was the most meaningful song - was “The Girls On Drugs” where Wale talks about women that he comes in contact with and the girls who have addictions to a variety of drugs, from adderall to molly. It brought a smooth and warming feeling to the song. This was one of my favorite songs, because I love how he featured J. The song starts off with George Costanza, another main character from “Seinfeld,” talking about how he wishes to one day lose hope in everything so he is no longer disappointed in anything. In the fourth track, called “The Pessimist,” Wale speaks on his hopelessness in the world. He makes it seem as if those are the objects that keep people in poverty. When Wale gets into his own lyrics, he speaks about how in high poverty neighborhoods people tend to spend more time blowing money on things that have no big worth in life like sneakers and gold chains. In one of the first songs of the album, we hear a clip from Seinfeld talking about how he was approached about his white shoes and how he sees the white shoes as something that makes his day a bit better and more down to earth with everything that goes on in his life.
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#WALE THE ALBUM ABOUT NOTHING HAT FULL#
Usually, we get an album full of songs that seem to be just thrown together but this time - even though this was named “The Album About Nothing” - Wale definitely had a lot to talk about. To me, this album was something totally different from what Wale usually does, and I mean different in s good way. The 15-song album has features from singer and songwriter SZA, Grammy-award winner Kanye West and J.
#WALE THE ALBUM ABOUT NOTHING HAT TV#
Some are clips from the eponymous well-known 90s TV show (also called “The Show About Nothing”), and others are from the Seinfeld himself today. The DC-based artist Wale released his second studio titled “The Album About Nothing” which was influenced by his self-proclaimed good friend Jerry Seinfeld, who gives every song on the album an intro.