For the highly anticipated remix, Wale recruited the number one bad girl herself Rihanna.
Several songs fall into this new classification including the first single "Bad" featuring Tiara Thomas, which was released back in February and has since gone gold. On his third album The Gifted, Wale continues in the direction of "Lotus Flower Bomb" and introduces a genre called "New Black Soul." Having fun with electric, funky beats layered with synths and catchy vocals, Wale embraces his inner poet. Wale's second attempt, Ambition, debuted at the number two spot thanks to the widely successful "Lotus Flower Bomb" single featuring R&B crooner Miguel. Enter Rick Ross and his Maybach Music Group, who signed Wale to his label in 2011 and gave him a wider platform and the financial backing to experiment with his sound. native's debut album Attention Deficit, it hardly moved off the shelves, which some blame on the lack of promo by Interscope. Although there were some big commercial names on The D.C. Ralph Victor Folarin made a name for himself on the mixtape circuit pleasing rap purists and socially conscious Hip Hop heads alike with his lyrical wordplay concerning the struggles of the hood. The release date of Wale's third album is stuck in the middle.Â
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Cole and Mac Miller, others are feverishly looking forward to Jay-Zâs Magna Carta Holy Grail, which is dropping on Independence Day. While most rap fans were in their glory last week with the release of albums from Kanye West, J. The camp is set to release the fourth volume of the label’s S elf Made compilations, and Meek has been putting together his Dreamchasers 4 mixtape.With the release of his third album, MMG rapper Wale aims to prove he can be both a lyricist and a poet and still achieve commercial success. So will 2015 go down as the year the pupils surpassed the master in popularity with the masses? Regardless of the answer to that question, the MMG legacy is far from over. In addition, he was among only five Hip Hop artists to sell over 200,000 units in one week in 2015 (Drake, Drake & Future, Kendrick Lamar, Dr. The Philadelphia native’s sophomore album spent two weeks at #1. Three months later Meek Mill released Dreams Worth More Than Money which sold over 215,000 copies in its first week. In March, Wale’s The Album About Nothing sold 88,000 copies out the gate and opened at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart. Ross’ Mastermind sold 179,000 copies in its first week in 2014, and later that year Hood Billionaire sold 74,000 copies in its initial seven days.īesides a significant falloff after just one year, Ross has also fallen behind the sales of Wale and Meek. According to early predictions, the project is expected to sell between 50,000 and 55,000 units in its opening week. Most recently, Ross dropped his 8th LP Black Market.
But has Rozay been surpassed by his Maybach Music Group protégés Meek Mill and Wale?Īll three MMG stars released studio albums this year. Rick Ross definitely earned his spot as one of the top tier rappers in the game by consistently putting out #1 albums over the last 10 years. (AllHipHop News) Albums sales are not always a great indication of quality, but the numbers do help determine how popular a particular act is on a mainstream level.
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