A routine about relationships ('When you get engaged it's like starting on the roller coaster.') inspires 'The Matrimony' with special guest Usher, but the Jerry device is used as needed, and this ironically titled effort is heavy with Wale's own hopes, dreams, and disappointments, including dealing with a recent pregnancy, then miscarriage. Seinfeld guides listeners through the story and sometimes his routines or thoughts inspire the songs, including the key poetic track 'The Helium Balloon,' where flying free and high becomes a metaphor for talent. It's a fame so huge that Jerry Seinfeld is actually Wale's friend now, and while the sitcom star was sampled for the 2008 mixtape, he narrates this album. It worked better the first time, but much has changed for Wale in the seven years leading up to The Album About Nothing, meaning a rekindled, quirky idea like this could put his fame at risk. That’s why my appreciation for him as a friend and an artist is immense.Playing off the ideas and structure of his 2008 mixtape The Mixtape About Nothing, rapper Wale's fourth studio album uses the television sitcom Seinfeld as the framework for an introspective and autobiographical effort, and as odd as that sounds, this is the second time it has worked. But one thing I’ve always said about him is he’s really a loyal person. “I knew what he was going to be,” Wale said, after explaining his introduction to Thug in Atlanta. They’re sports.”Įlsewhere in the Drink Champs interview, Wale spoke about his first impressions of Young Thug and how he wanted to sign him well before Thugger became an A-list artist. But to me personally they’re going in another direction. “It was hard because I was when that joint was S. It’s like the brand stuff is what I’m on right now-I have a job with the Washington Wizards-brand ambassador,” Wale told the radio show hosts at the time.

“I mean, I don’t really need no help on the music side.

Shortly after announcing his decision, he told the Breakfast Club he decided to leave the Roc family because it was going in a different direction by expanding into sports. Wale confirmed he left Roc Nation in 2014, about five years after inking a management deal with the company, which placed the split between his third and fourth studio albums, The Gifted and The Album About Nothing. You’re losing money.’ I couldn’t make sense of it. “And somebody in my circle was like, ‘You’re losing like 5 grand every time you go on stage. Cole and at this point, I was opening for him,” Wale said. “I was in the Hov cypher for a long time, and there was a time that I was on tour with J.

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