It has been three and a half years since the former Maybach Music Group dropped his last album, Folarin II. But the Pretty Girls artist recently announced his return to the music scene.
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Wale Has Heated Exchange With Azealia Banks
But not everyone is happy about Wale’s return. Enter artist Azealia Banks, who had a lot to say about the D.C.-born artist.
“N***a the only hot song you ever made is ‘ridin’ in that black joint,’. It’s no shade. But ur rap swag and delivery and persona got something off in a very generic type of way. It’s highkey cause u African no shade. U shoulda been African T-pain,” Banks said.
She also added: “It’s like a diet curren$y flow / faux Ross storytelling mixed with generic hype beast blog era ‘swag’ raps. He could be Cise Starr good if he’d not write such generic ‘hustler,’ ‘out the mud’ forgettable BS. @wale you should def rap like Cise Starr and leave the Maybach music aesthetic and my chickens and period panties alone. Do some Gqom it’d probably be really big.”
Wale expressed his disdain with Banks’ comments, noting that she really did not know what she was talking about.
“The most disappointing thing bout this exchange is that I’ve realized u don’t know ball,” he responded. “And you’ve been the AnR for everybody everywhere all the time for years…. and you just don’t know ball… This take sounds like if chat GPT and Pitchfork had a baby .. u know too much!”
This entire exchange stemmed from a recent Wale tweet. After he revealed to his fans that he has a new album coming. Many people began to hard about the fact that it had been such a long time since his last drop. But Wale insisted that he never left the rap scene. He wanted to do things his way without “selling [his] soul.”
“I’m not selling my soul. I’m not playing them other games either .. ain’t no ‘era’ I ain’t never stopped…hope this helps with the nostalgia bait,” he wrote.
