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It's something to be Great, It's nothing to be Famous
Wale
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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
Famous
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You never wanna see yourself there. Like, ever. I'd rather go to jail than see myself on Step Your Rap Game up because I take a lot of time with my stuff.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
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The Loudest person in the room, is usually the brokest
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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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Maybe they just like me because they like me, and they don't like me because they feel like they have to like me because they like this person or that person.
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You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.
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Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.
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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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Failure is not an option. Success is just a process.
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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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You niggas so-so like a seamstress.
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When you're just reading a note card but when you're just reading a note card and it doesn't even feel real, it's difficult at times. But I have no problem doing interviews. So I have absolutely no problem doing interviews.
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Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you cant fake. Im not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.
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There's a lot of real unity - and a lot fake unity, sadly. I think a lot of people are going to get an opportunity to pursue greatness and pursue careers outside of D.C. Not everybody is going to make it. I think there's a connotation that there's a lack of rappers out there.
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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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I want people to be like, 'Your album's just as good as Kendrick [Lamar]'s or Esperanza Spalding or Beck. I work just as hard as them.
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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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I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?
Wale
Most artists should be able to make the album that they want. You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process.
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