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Jay-Z's my favorite rapper, but why can't I aspire to be better than him?

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Wale
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: September 21
Musician
Rapper
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Washington
District of Columbia
Olubowale Victor Akintimehin
Olubowale Akintimehin
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I wanna meet the person who wrote the Burlington Coat Factory thing, but that's cool. I would love to understand it more, but everything is good.
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Initially, I felt like my duty was to just keep it positive and be positive and sometimes I crack in that. We're human. I'm imperfect at times and that was just me being imperfect at that one point.
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One thing Jay z told me that always sticks with me, is that, the album is never how you viewed it to be.
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You niggas so-so like a seamstress.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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All I’m saying is like, spoil me with your consistency Always remain the same you and you won’t have to worry about a different me
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I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them had in common?' They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that's the most beautiful thing.
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Failure is not an option. Success is just a process.
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Ambition is priceless, its something that's in your veins.
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Charles is Charles. Wale is Wale. It's two separate entities that have nothing to do with each other and probably will never have anything to do with each other and I wish him the best.
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I'm never satisfied, man. I'm Virgo. We overanalyze and we're never satisfied. So I'm gonna keep going 'til the wheels fall off.
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I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway.
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The first thing that's important is to really have people believe in you. If you have that, you can do anything.
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I just wanna affect the culture and wanna be able to support young people with goals that aren't just limited to rapping and producing.
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