Wale The Gifted Ep. 3
May 25, 2013 @ 12:07 PM EDT
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With “LoveHate Thing” as the soundtrack, Folarin continues to share his influences with us in episode 3. This time around he draws inspiration from Bob Marley, Chuck Brown, Miles Davis, J Dilla, and more. The Gifted drops June 25.
Previously: Ep. 2
If this is who he draws inspiration from I guess it’s cool…..I just fear it’s who he compares himself to.
He’s a decent rapper but no one will be able to name any of his songs in 20 years.
Just another hypebeast from Nowheresville Virginia who found an audience to fund and feed into his bougie lifestyle
@The Facade ..its the inspiration and aspiration in the episodes.. why can’t he aspire to be one of the legends?
He’s the most hated in the genre with a message behind his music and folks don’t see that! Thats what baffles me like we still listen to Wayne even though he’s not saying shit anymore lmaoo whatever..
Everyone has a different sound, let this man live.. where-ever he hails from let it be that.
-21
Kanye jcole mac mac miller its lookin BAD
REAL RAP http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7blWPL-WYo&feature=youtu.be
dude is a sell out, no one wants that garbage flow anymore, the only people that listen to him are people that began liking him from no hands and developed an ear for him and started calling him a poet. Old fans don’t buy into that stuff, unfortunately you can’t enjoy wale even in concert because the only thing he does related to pre-mmg are 30 seconds snippets of chillin, pretty girls and like nike boots. Not cool Wale.
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@Observer21
If you read my comment you’d see that I said if that was then case then it’s cool.
I had Wale’s mixtapes on heavy rotation in my car like four years ago so don’t come at me with the he’s the most hated in his genre bullshit. Stop dismissing criticism as hate you mental midget.
400 degrees very underrated album
@jav I’m a old fan and I still listen and he’s still dope.
@The Facade everybody keeps saying he changed because of mmg and shit but when you go on falorin you’ll find songs like Georgetown press, street runner, and skool daze that speak otherwise. take time to listen to what he’s putting out instead of writing him off like all these other “hip hop head” niggas out here. wale is definitely still dope, you just stopped becoming a fan because he penetrated pop culture so you equivocated him with “hypebeasts”.
*yawn* keep the to 40 hits cummin!!
What’s corny are fans that say they’ve been there from the beginning and soon as an artist gets some mainstream love, they claim the artist is a sellout and has changed.
Wale has a broader fantasy now, and he has to make music to cater to that. But like someone else mentioned, he’s still spittin his “old flow” on tracks on Folarin, the 11.1.11 mixtape and even a few tracks on Ambition.
If you don’t eff with him now that he’s popular, you never really messed with him in the first place.
@Jay
I never really said he “changed”….I paid for a hard copy of Ambition and still haven’t written him off, all I was trying to say was I hope he does not consider himself a peer of any of the people in this video. It seems like he thinks of himself as a transcendent musician and legend in the making (whether this is because of MMG or not I have no idea), and I simply see him as just another decent rapper.
Interesting how you claimed I stopped being a fan because he penetrated pop culture when you don’t know whether or not I am a fan or what I like/dislike about his music. Stop making simple minded assumptions and just take a deep breath and relax.
And I still think aside from hip hop heads from the DMV, no one will remember the name of any Wale songs or albums 25 years from now.
^^^ DITTO!