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Watch Wale Perform With the Roots on Fallon

Wale received backing instrumentation from the Roots and vocal assistance from Miguel on “Lotus Flower Bomb” last night on Late Night. The song has been the only single off of Ambition and is more of a slow jam than a break out hip-hop anthem. Regardless, the rapper performed the song to perfection.  read more

Wale: Ambition

The music industry isn’t known for its sustained pragmatism, but it’s still pretty crazy thinking about the roller coaster of mistakes, promises, hype, backlash, and rebirths of D.C.’s Wale. Tagged for brilliance early on with the wunderkind-heights of The Mixtape About Nothing, then faltering with the commercial bomb of Attention Deficit, and somehow escaping the sigma of a failure-to-launch with a thorough rebranding via Maybach Music Group - his second full-length Ambition actually arrives with some murmurs of anticipation.   read more

Hear A Track From Wale's Next Mixtape

D.C.-based rapper Olubowale Victor Folarin (short, of course, for Wale) hasn’t released a studio record since November of 2009’s breakout album Attention Deficit, but that doesn’t mean the man isn’t busy....  read more

Wale Announces New Mixtape Via YouTube

It’s been a quiet couple months from Wale-less, but the (admittedly short) silence is apparently over....  read more

Bonnaroo 2010: The Story So Far

Bonnaroo is here, which means it’s once again time to gather an unfathomably large mob of sweaty, dazed-and-confused festivalgoers into a Tennessee farm and set them loose on some of the best live music to hit the festival circuit this year. Your humble Paste correspondent is only too happy to give you a roundup of the excellent acts he’s been privy to thus far:...  read more

The 15 Best Music Performances on Late-Night TV in May

This has been Music-On-TV Appreciation Month at Paste. In addition to all the good prime-time music, there’s been a wealth of amazing musical guests on the late-night talk shows lately. A couple of weeks ago, I looked at the state of late-night music, and liked what I saw. Here’s a countdown of my 15 favorite late-night performances from May:...  read more

Fifteen Albums, Songs That Defined 2009 for Paste's Web Editor

This was a confusing year for me...  read more

My 30 Favorite Albums of 2009

Even though it was, musically speaking, my least favorite year of the decade, there were still some great records that came out in 2009. Here are my personal favorites for the final year of the aughties...  read more

Wale: Attention Deficit

On major label debut, mixtape star looks to the West Born of Nigerian parents in our nation’s capitol, Wale rose to prominence in 2008 with The Mixtape About Nothing, where he used his favorite program as a framing device for his technically adroit diatribes on race, rap, and authenticity. “The Kramer,” for instance, sampled Michael Richards’ infamous Laugh Factory tirade, and subsequent apology, to bookend a fearless dissection of racist language. Wale also adopted Seinfeld’s habit of knowing self-deprecation to send up stale rap conventions, titling a track with three guest stars (including mixtape staple Bun B) “The Feature Heavy...  read more

Catching Up With... Wale

Things finally seem to be falling into place for Wale...  read more