When Wale didn't "sell out" his album sold 27k on a huge label, with a single by an at the time soon to be pop icon. When Wale "sells out" his album sells 160k, with a label that hadn't signed a rapper in I don't know how many years, with no single. He didn't "sell out" he raps about the exact same stuff, with more pop like beats. and to tell ya'll the truth, if you think Wale sold out in the first place, you never were a fan. Wale had songs like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxWfox44phA showing his ignorant side, on the same mixtape as a song like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPOH4vkiHMo which if you didn't know is his top 5 most lyrical songs in his discography ever in my opinion, and this was back 2005. So one of you tell me, how you can sell out if you rapped about the exact same shit BEFORE your so called "prime" material was even created?
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