![]() What Wale managed to achieve back in 2008, at the height of the mixtape industry in rap, was an almost meta-approach to making music in which his own placement in the game, lyrics, skills and even his race were all on the table for both himself and us as an audience to examine. ![]() When he first began with his acclaimed, Seinfeld-themed mixtape, The Mixtape About Nothing, there was something admirable about his approach. With his new album, SHINE, released to both lukewarm reviews and excrutiatingly low albums sales, it’s about time we discuss what or who exactly it is that’s holding Wale’s career back.įor nearly a decade, rapper Wale has walked a mighty fine tightrope between underrated and overrated as both strictly a rap artist and a pop artist.
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