Puffy Shirt himself, Jerry Seinfeld, aren’t enough to keep anybody except Wale diehards from yada yada-ing through this one. ![]() He’s a competent emcee, especially when speaking about the struggles of young African Americans, but he’s in need of a good producer to rein him in.Ī guest verse by 2 Chainz and a brief cameo by none other than Mr. Even his beefs are boring (earlier this year he exchanged words with a Raptors announcer during a Toronto-Washington game). The main problem? Wale’s neither a larger-than-life personality like Maybach Music head honcho Rick Ross nor a gritty street rapper like labelmate Gunplay. On his third album, he tries to appeal to everyone with us-against-the-world rallies (Heaven’s Afternoon), strip club anthems (Clappers) and slow jams (Bad), with diminishing returns. On The Gifted, the DC native attempts to wheel it back a little bit and slip into something with greater depth than his recent offerings, not only showing more focus in his rhymes, but couching. ![]() Who is Wale? After a handful of mixtapes (including the excellent Seinfeld-themed The Mixtape About Nothing) and two so-so albums, The Gifted sees the Washington, DC, rapper suffering from an identity crisis.
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