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Home > News > Wale Reveals Inspiration Behind "Ambi tion" Album, Addresses Lazy Listeners

Exclusive: Wale speaks about what he

has to prove to you, and why today's

youth are lazy in their pursuits, so he'sgiving them ambition to be the best and

have the best.

Say what you will about Wale Folarin; he claims that he

can take whatever you dish out. In fact the greater

Washington DC native is hoping that you do your best to

take him down. There appears to be a fire in Wale's belly

Wale Reveals Inspiration Behind

"Ambition" Album, AddressesLazy Listenersby NADINE GRAHAM

posted August 01, 2011 at 2:17PM EDT | 39 comments

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this year that cant be calmed and naysayers seem to

only increase its intensity.

A little more than four years ago, Wale dropped the critically acclaimed mixtape 100 Miles & Running

with Nick Catchdubs. According to a recent conversation with HipHopDX at an Atlanta listening event,

he is trying to get people to listen and understand that hes still that same Wale - just now with an

improved label situation and a 600 Mercedes Benz.

In this pinnacle year for Wale, the emcee is getting known not only for his lyrical abilities, but also an

arrogant demeanor at times - something Wale's recently justified. Since jumping the Interscope ship

and landing in Rozays Maybach, Wale is back on his grind to show and prove to the doubtful that

hes well-aware of what hes doing. His stellar performance on this springs Maybach Music Group

compilation Self-Made was a taste of what he has in store for his second studio album due in

November, entitled, - what else? -Ambition. DX had a moment to catch up with Wale to talk about the

LP, his dedication to culture, and lazy listeners.

HipHopDX: How far along are you onAmbition?

Wale: It been done. I just keep chopping the records.

DX: Really?

Wale: Im putting out 10 new songs when I get up to a million follower on Twitter - [songs not from] the

album. And I got a lot of freestyles, some classic shit, not playing no more. Its been too I feel like

Im one of the best, you know? And I wanna give my fans a reason to brag now like, "Yo, this is what I

like Wale the most." A lot of niggas is nice, Im just tryin' to take it up a notch like, we is working. Im

working vigorously. Im mentally getting right. Working out, getting physically right. Reading more, Imback to the old me. The vigor that I had with 100 Miles & Runningis like, all over the album, its the

best music Ive ever made in my life and I mean that.

DX: Youve been doing this for a while now. But it seems your city is still pretty much on your

shoulders. What kind of pressure you feel coming out of DC nowadays?

Wale: I love it. I love it. I want everybody to watch this time. If youve ever heard my name, whatever,

everybody, please, you dont have to do it ever again in my career but watch this time.

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DX: Man, Wale, DC natives even say its a city full of haters.

Wale: We get nothing but love back home. I just like to play around. Its just like, on Twitter,

everybody is all like, "Why Wale" I love it, I just like everybody to talk. Im not stupid. We sold out

two shows on New Years Eve in like, 15 minutes.

DX: Why do you think it is that youre the one rapper out of DC that made it?

Wale: Gods work. Its all Gods work man.

DX: What was the culture like for you out there around the time you started writing?

Wale: Theres a lot of talented guys out of DC man. We work with a lot of em, like Black Cobain and

Fatz Da Big Fella, Boobie, Garvey, the OG Big Wax. I got an OG in DC! I grew up listening to him! To

me [he] was [like] Jay-Z and all that So I look at a guy like Big Wax like, "Okay," you know? Hes

somebody I felt like couldve been a Bun [B], or a Styles P, or anybody thats been around but its

just... The time wasnt right you know? So you know thats why we work with niggas like that. Ima helpWax put out his project when the album is done. Thats how I feel. DCs got a lot of talent.

DX: Whats your mindset onAmbition?

Wale: End all, be all. You. I want to have this conversation with everybody who asks me that

question. You. A lot of people would kill to be where you at, right? But you would kill seven

motherfuckers to get to where you wanna go in your mind. Its a stepping stone. Young niggas really

gotta get on they shit, for real. Whether you in the league, you playing basketball, whether you selling

dope, whether you in school We gotta get on our shit! Our parents aint have no m'fuckin' e-mail,m'fuckers had to memorize numbers and The least we can do is grind!

How many young Lyor Cohens you see? How many young Diddys you see? None! A lot of young

niggas is in it right now as if they only wanna be in it temporarily, I want it forever! Fuck the money,

fuck the fame, I want niggas to say, "You know what? Wale make that Psssh Man For real. For

years. I love this nigga's music." Young niggas dont aspire to be legendary no more. They dont.

Niggas our age are so consumed in the now. Thats why they follow trends. Thats why they do little

akee shit, weirdo shitknow what Im saying? Young niggas dont want shit but "now." The temporary

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riches, like, I want the forever, I want the forever glory. Temporary riches is nothing to forever glory.

Thats what we striving for, thats whatAmbition is.

DX: Do you feel like that theme comes from your background?

Wale: I applied it my life. Just sports, girls, whatever like, even dating a woman. If Im in love, I try to

top the last nigga she dated. I try and top my last gesture. I try and top my last physical performance.

Its just my nature. I wanna be great. I just want I obsess over being great. Not obsess over being

famous. If I could write a million songs and never be heard, so be it, but if theyre considered great, I

can go to sleep every night like, Im great.

DX: Were you raised to think like that?

Wale: Nah "They" turned me into this monster. "They" did. Cause when I did my first album

[Attention : Deficit], "Aiight, cool," know what? Now I want all yall shit! Now I want all yall niggas to

hear me! Cause yall thoughtyall not saying Im one of the best new niggas? I want everybody to

motherfucking listen and I want you to compare this record to that record. I want you to compare this

flow to that flow. I want you to compare these lines to those lines. Go! I want it all! Listen, everybodyfucking listen now. I do this shit for the Hip Hop DXsin every profession, theres always somebody in

front of you. Always somebody in front of you. I want them. I want that shit. Im working relentlessly. Im

not stopping. I do this for the culture.

How many niggas is doing this for the culture? The funny thing about it is, how bout lil Wale that had

DC Chillin two years ago, how bout lil Wale is that smart to know that, "Let me rub shoulders

with let me make songs to" Cause all yall gon listen to is the shit I been trying to do since 100

Miles & Running. My real fans - the real fans - they know my heart. I pray every night, "God please let

these people know my heart, please" Cause Im not stupid. I know what Im doing. Trust a nigga.

Trust a nigga young. Trust me. Like for real. All yall gotta do is trust me. Im aspiring, Im rapping, SelfMade [Volume 1] , let me show yall niggas I can do whatever.

DX: A lot of people think you shine on that album.

Wale: Trust me, yall. When you allow yourself to listen to it, that's what youd say. But when you get

caught up in, "Well, why is this backpack nigga rolling with some trap niggas?" Man, I grew up around

trap niggas, that aint nothing to me, the nigga love Hip Hop music, I love Hip Hop music. Thats the

underlying theme, thats the common denominator.

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DX: Youve known Rick Ross for a while anyway though. Hed been heralding your skills for a minute,

so when the idea of MMG came about, was it a given that youd be on?

Wale: There were a lot of things on the table and I dont wanna throw nobody under the bus, but a lot

of niggas was talking I couldve went on Twitter like, "I just left Interscope [Records], whats up?" I let

the industry talk, I let everybody do what they had to do. I had my situation I was signed to

[Maybach Music Group/Warner Brothers Records] before niggas even knew I left Interscope. I had a

situation on the table I should say.

DX: What kind of pressure are you feeling even being affliated with Rick Ross?

Wale: I want it! Listen: my first album, all they used to ask me was, "Do you feel pressure being from

DC?" I was like, "Well, you know. Im used to it. I can handle it." I want it now! Because the music is

that good, I promise you. For the first time in my life Imagine a nigga, for his whole life, wanting to

paint and only being able to paint with black and red, thats all he knows and thats all he can paint

with. And imagine you say, "Son, you 26 years old now. Ima give you infinite colors to paint with"

You know how many pictures gon be painted? 26 years worth of painting in infinite colors. Thats howI feel.

I wasnt doing this stuff for 26 years but I feel like I never got to share my emotions, my passion, my

thoughts and my heartwith the world "over there" [at Allido/Interscope Records]. I mean Ross

theorietically said, "Heres your budget money, heres your label. Make whatever music you want."

Where as Interscope was "You stand with this person, you go there by yourself, you do that, and

now you make my album. And hurry up too." This shit is like I got a blank canvas with a million colors.

And its time to work. Theres people at my label that say, "Ive never seen a person do this" I had

to go to the doctor, and he told me to stop. He said, "Stop." They gave me medicine like, "Yoslowdown." No. I cant. Im too ambitious for that.

DX: Can you name the producers on this LP?

Wale: I dont want to.

DX: No?
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Wale: Thats athats a dated question.

DX: Is it?

Wale: Yeah. Absolutely.

DX: Oh okay. Anyway You had a tweet earlier this week where you said you may do an Ambitious

Girls 2.

Wale: Yeah. I got something even bigger than that called The Illest Bitch Alive. I got two songs on

the album that I cant listen to, know what Im saying? Like if you write in your diary about something

painful, you probably cant read it, you gotta skip it. The only thing you can do is reflect on it lightly

but Thats what those two are. I did a show in Mississippi and there was a girl who came up to me

after my show, I was leaving, and I dont really be paying attention, I just be tryin' to get out, but for

some reason I stopped and said, "How you doing?" She says, "Wale, Im a big fan of you and I love

your music. You helped me get through a lot of stuff in my life. But you make me feel unincluded with

Ambitious Girl." I aint sleep that night.

This black culture means so much to me. Both of my parents from Africa, they aint know no English,nothing when they came to this country. They grinded. This black culture? This all I know. Me and my

brother, in DC and suburban Maryland, we fended for ourselves but we analyzed the wholebut this

shit means the world to me. Know what Im saying, likesome niggas have the opportunity to say way

more than theyre saying, thats not fair. Thats not fair and I love niggas music but you got an

opportunity And then, its not even their fault because the environment that they were brought up

in, it doesnt evoke that. Its all fun. Its all partying. But its niggas going through shit

Its niggas that I know, my best friend, been in prison for two years, but he in and out. Every time I try

to get him straight Im not rich nigga, but Im tryin' get him straight, he go back in. This is the shit Igo through. I aint no drug nigga, I aint no trap nigga, but these are my friends, this is my

environment. This is what I come from. I cant be at ease knowing that. Just like I cant be at ease

overly stuntin. I got cousins in Nigeria that dont have anything, like, thats my story. So if I get my shit

to my level where everybodys listening, Im gonna use it. Im gonna use it the way I deem necessary.

Im not judging off how anybody else is using it. Im just letting it be known that, I feel you my nigga, if

dont nobody else do I feel you my nigga. You might not know but Im a lot like you. I know what its

like.
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I got friends who got parents on [drugs]. I talk about that. If I never do it again, this is gonna be the

album right here where Im gonna you know, dig into My favorite rapper of all t ime is Jay-Z. His most

intimate album was Volume 1: [In My Lifetime]. Those are the emotions. Im getting there now but by

my next album I may be in a financially better place where I cant even dig down. All my niggas may be

rich, God willin. Its gon be hard to get that pain. I aint rich, Ill tell you in my verse first. 600 Benz

is aspiring to get the 600 [Mercedes] Benz. I been grinding / Cause I been saving / For that

Benz Yall listening? When did they stop listening? When did they stop? Cause I promise you if I

woulda said that on a Statik [Selektah] or a 9th Wonderbeat, theyda been like, "Yo '600 Benz' isnt

about a car. Its about ambition, its about drive." You dummy. You see me in the[WorldStarHipHop.com video] shit with the 600, yeah, I aint get it. Ross gave me the 600; but I got

one. But thats not what its about, its about trying to get one. There were three 600 Benzes at the

video shoot, but its about grinding to get one. People are so lazy now.

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kljh:

i love u and u do in good out there ... u look good on the top ... u better stay up there

love bumblebeee/kenn

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kljh:

i love u walee


Realniggashit:

Wale keep pushing and stay focus on what you say when you make it to the

top...Bro


Lisa:

Wale


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Wale sounds really focused. After reading this interview, I am interested in the

music he's gonna put out.


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Mr Flamboyant:

What was that one mixtape he had? Much about nothing or something like that?

Well damn...who thought he would carry that same title for the concept of this

interview. I had to stop reading this mes s. And I am mad a t the time I can't get

back.

Eh... Gotta learn to live with regrets (jay-z version)


Anonymous:

Whats with rappers and pretty much everybody in hollywood throwing up that 666

hand sign Wale is doing with his right hand?


vj:

your a dumbass enough said

Posted 6 months ago

s2dak:

i'll second that. dumbass. you shouldn't be on this site. go back to

nickelodeon.

Posted 5 months ago

Ayatollah:

When he first came out, niggaz from the city hated on him , he stayed humble, kept

grinding and now he's s hitting on them.

MARTYR


amp:

this nigga sound like he off his head in the interview


Anonymous:

wale a problem for real cant wait for the album im for sure coppin it!

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Coaster Geist

boy this m an never cease to amaze me to be down w/ according to him "trap

niggas" and stay lyrically above the planet is beyond Folarin keep i t up God


Anonymous:

Does this dude ever stfu?


damn:

i dont like the dude but that nigga is really deep, shit and yeah im high

im very deep myself thats why i know he deep

holla if u deep(and/or high)

wtf?


bmoc:

lol

Posted 6 months ago

Anonymous:

the funniest comm ent ive heard on this site. period. i was feelin the exact

same

Posted 6 months ago

Anonymous:

wale is hungry and full of talent i llok forward to his album more than any other

rapper in the game


FromDat202:

Wale is h e and ha as shit. Can't all tell? It's like Ocho Cinco oin to the

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Patriots.....he in a good pos ition and REALLY has s omething to prove this go

round. After Self Made, niggaz wanna hear what he got to say. And sl im ain't gonna

disappoint. Do ya thing Wale.....fuck da haters, the city ain't on ya back, the city is by

ya side runnin' wit' you!! COP AMBITION WHEN IT DROPS!


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I can tell Wale is gonna be on fire this go around


WhatEvs:

Whale... We'll see. That's all I can say. You're in the pos ition you need to be in...

Now all you gotta do is m ake good mus ic. Which is hard. Be humble my guy. You'll

either get praised beyond belief or s laughtered beyond recognition.


Anonymous:

Had to s top reading that interview. I felt like I was getting dumber by the sentence.


Anonymous:

I(TM)m not rich nigga, Wale.

So why do you and your crew run around faking it.


Anonymous:

Now the Jay Z favorite rapper comment makes sens e. The greatest fake

it till you make it rapper since Biggie.

Fake niggas love fake things.

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Posted 6 months ago

Anonymous:

Wale is not fake at all lmao he doesnt rock chains he doesnt flash his

jewelry..Wale sends clothes and stuff to his family back in Nigeria. He is

one of the few REAL artist in the gam e...

Posted 6 months ago

Anonymous:

His favorite rapper is Jay Z. No wonder you suck.


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Edi Kajmolli

chillllll lazy listeners is the reason you got a fan base


vj:

"Lazy Listeners is the reason you got fans" Shut the fuck up dude Have

you even ever listened to a Wale song before because i f you did you

would Know how dumb of a comment that was on your part, fuckin

dumbass people smh

Posted 6 months ago

Mo Betta:

My n!gga is hungry, the passion and des ire is exuding from Wale in this interview.

Ambition on the way, DMV behind ya son. Im buying jus t as many as I did the last

time giving 'em out for christmas or somethinglet's go. Im proud of ya man.


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hoping that the next one is truely your best.
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Oh J:

Ambition on the way....cant wait!


Wale is too cocky:

wow...such a boring interview

wale is nice, but calm down, u aint THAT nice


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