Wale – Attention Deficit ALBUM REVIEW

Wale – Attention Deficit – ALBUM REVIEW

Think I’m gonna have to write a Wale album review, 0-day style. Since we went to high school together and all…

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Triumph
Album starts off strong with Triumph. Horns blaring. U-St [DC] style. Even though (as an aside), Wale doesn’t even live in DC anymore. He lives in Brooklyn, NY. Shh. Don’t tell anyone I told you! Between you and I, okay?

Mama Told Me
You know where there are songs where EM kills the beat… this is an example of the beat killing Wale. Roffle. I almost just wanna hear the instrumental, ’cause Wale’s wraps over this sound whiny.

Mirrors ft. Bun B
This was one of the first songs I heard off the album. And for good reason, it’s one of the best on the record. Bun B has been coming hard lately. And to think Bun B was just a corny Asher Roth fan-boy. In fact, Bun kills Wale on his own song. Mirror mirror on the wall… who’s the bama-est of them all?

Pretty Girls ft. Gucci Mane
Damn, Gucci went from smackin’ a hoe on stage, to on a record with Wale. This is the same ol’ joint Pretty Girls (same song) they just threw a Gucci feature on it. Coulda sorta done without this track cause at the end of the day, adding Gucci on it doesn’t make it a fresh track.

World Tour
I will say this. So far it’s way better than 50 Cent’s new album, though this song isn’t helping the cause. He took the verse off of the Tribe song an added the bitch Jazmine Sullivan who? to sing on it. Pretty sure that’s the poor man’s Alica Keys. Just cause you the janitorial version of keys, don’t mean ya any good! Hayooo! This song sucks. Next. Stealing a Tribe hook and rock infusing it = wack.

Let It Loose ft. Pharrell
I have heard this song before…off the DJ Benzi mixtape. LuckyIAm told me to be honest, so this song’s pretty hot, thanks to Mr. Williams. I.e. Wale doesn’t sink the track.

90210
I don’t wanna like this song, but I like it.

Shades ft. Chrisette Michelle
This is a song about Wale not being able to get with (land) any light skinned-ed sisters as a teenager. This is a big eff you to all of us, cause now he’s doing a song with Chrisette Michelle, who is as light as they come! I guess he wins! And see, I am progressive, I am not even looking at this song as about shade, as I see this as an anthem for the fat sistas out there.

Chillin’ ft. Lady Gaga
Ya know how the last track was for fat chicks? This is for teh gays. I’d be shocked if Lady Gaga and Wale even did this in the same studio together. Prolly some phoned in shit. Gay people chillin’. Where’s the Mo-Co (Montgomery County, MD) chilling part of Wale’s life? Faking on his past in the suburbs, kid. Quince Orchard HS represent with Roland B. and co. what what.

TV In The Radio ft. K’Naan
This song was confusing to me – cause isn’t TV on the Radio a band? Oh, wait, it’s TV “IN” the radio.. that makes a lot more sense (sarcasm). This is a song you listen to and the first two times you listen, it’s hot but I promise you by the third time it’s mad annoying. I’ve heard this song five times and I’ve been sick of it two times ago. Yawn. K’Naan needs to stick with South Park pirate episode cameos… though (no homo in advance), (true story) – I have shook K’Naan’s hand once, and despite what the stereotypes are out there about pirate’s hands, he has REALLY SMOOTH HANDS. I think he lotions up. Nullus.

Contemplate
I guess this is Wale’s “serious” song… ooo, I am shaking in my boots! This song isn’t working for me. It’s like going to the kid in the corner, drawing with crayons, to help you draw conclusions about life. Fuck that. Oh, two minutes in he crow-bars in a bunch of celebrity names into the song for no real good reason, I guess so it resonates better with us?

Diary ft. Marsha Ambrosius
It’s shitty songs like this one and Contemplate that makes me miss Mark Ronson’s production. Wale’s rap + “heavy” music just doesn’t work! It’s like if the Degrassi soundtrack had emo stylings. This is one of those catch and release songs but rather, record and shelf. If I wasn’t reviewing it, I would have hit next two minutes ago.

Beautiful Bliss ft. J.Cole & Melanie Ambrosius
This, like Mirrors, had leaked on blogs already. It’s decent. I imagine it will grow on me -nullus-, Empire State of Mind v.5 beta-male style.

Prescription
I think Wale’s rapping/flow has officially given me a headache. Prescribe me, already.

[BEST TRACKS: Mirrors, Let It Loose, 90210, Beautiful Bliss]

[CONCLUSION: If I hadn't spent the last couple of days listening to "50 Cent's - Before I Self Destruct," I would have rated Wale's freshman effort lower, however 50 messed up my ear-pallet. In comparison MOST things out there are 10x better, (eg. that new Lil' Wayne mixtape). There are some albums I like to review, because they're really shitty, and some because they're really good. This falls somewhere in between, and this is coming from yours truly, the Russian judge of this:]

BOOTIES (STARS): (_*_) (_*_) (_*_) (_o_) (_o_) [3/5]

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