Wale

The self-proclaimed "Ambassador of Rap for the Capitol," Wale (pronounced "wah-lay") has a style that includes using go-go-inspired hip-hop as the vehicle for his clever wordplay and music. Most of the major singles he made after his earliest days, however, were melodic slow jams appearing at the tail-end of the 2000s and well into the late 2010s. These hits, like "Lotus Flower Bomb" and "Bad," supported albums that regularly landed near or at the top of the Billboard 200, including the chart-topping The Gifted (2013) and The Album About Nothing (2015). The proper full-length ...