Stars-they’re just like us! POST CONTINUES BELOW The Album About Nothing Download “Houston” is like the postscript of “Clappers.” After Wale stops throwing ones, he wants something more fulfilling. “The Need to Know” highlights the idea of friends with benefits, with SZA delivering a seductive rendition of Musiq Soulchild’s “Just Friends (Sunny),” while “The One Time in Houston” takes a trip down South where Wale has found love in the (strip) club. Wale never fully finds his footing with the opposite sex, but the honesty in his rhymes reaches an admirablelevel of relatability. Trials, tribulations, love, and lack thereof. Wale has been criticized for switching up his style since joining the house that Rozay built, so he’s clearly made it a point here to prove he’s his own man.Ī major theme that plays throughout The Album About Nothing is Wale’s relationship with women. The album's one true moment of relief and cheer comes on 'The God Smile,' and the best line from that record highlights the kind of destruction that takes place in the inner city because of cocaine: 'The white girl destroyed the black neighborhood/So white boys can run the world.' It really only serves to set up 'The Glass Egg,' which is a dope metaphor on balancing fame and friends, but again, been there done that. 'The Success' doesn't share anything we haven't heard before. The second half of The Album About Nothing is a bit more hit-and-miss than the opening seven tracks, with Wale inadvertently bringing his 'nothing' concept to fruition. In the past, Wale has been criticized for switching up his style since joining the house that Rozay built, so he’s clearly made it a point here to prove he’s his own man. They only receive one shout-out, and it’s on “The Middle Finger.” Read into that how you want.
Likewise, no one from his MMG team is present.
The album has no guest verses, which may come as a surprise considering Wale's feature-heavy albums in the past. Like the women described on “The Girls on Drugs,” Wale is also jaded, which feeds into his dark mood throughout the project.
Cole.Įlsewhere, Wale delivers his fed-up anthem of 2015 in “The Middle Finger,” which references his drug use-pills, weed, lean, ecstasy-as a remedy for dealing with the world as a successful black man now in his 30s. “Who am I to change perception?/If a nigga kill a nigga he's another statistic/If his skin's a little different they gon ' say it was self-defense.” The record is a gripping moment tied up perfectly with a passionate chorus from J. Wale's most compelling track on the album is “The Pessimist,” where he scatters out troubling storylines made in America, one of those being the fate of the black man. Wale Ambition Zippyshare POST CONTINUES BELOW “Tell the purist that laugh I don't reach out for daps/Cause ‘No Hands’ triple platinum.” Shots fired. “Some love to see you blow, they don't want see you pop,” he raps over DJ Dahi’s booming backdrop. “The Helium Balloon” is a breakdown of the rapper’s bout with his volatile fanbase. The first half of the album starts out lyrically sharp as Wale tackles fickle fans and society’s ills, with Jerry’s metaphors and accompanying Seinfeld sound bites guiding the narrative. Consider The Album About Nothing a slice of life from the self-proclaimed Double M genius who dropped his first Seinfeld-inspired installment, The Mixtape About Nothing, in 2008. It’s a trait that, while physically and emotionally draining for the rapper, helped create his most personal project to date. He told this very publication as much while in the process of making his fourth studio album, The Album About Nothing, alongside his co-pilot Jerry Seinfeld. Most people block out the trivial bullshit. rapper, he spends more time than necessary dealing with online trolls, which only adds to whatever issues already plague his everyday life.
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