Nov 10th of last year my album dropped, with the critical acclaim I knew I would receive, it was hard to come to grips with the under shipped results. After a lot of soul searching , I realized that somethings are out of my control. I used my “break”, as a means of re evaluating my career, and public perception of “wale” the artist.
As soon as I got home I took it upon myself to lay out the next couple months, without roc nation, allido or Interscope driving the car. Not because I doubt their advise, but because I think ALL artist should drive the car in their career sometimes. Having said that, I partnered up with some of my friends from back home and have been workin hard to build my empire “the board of administration” is a company we run. Essentially its what I believe is the missing piece in artist-label relationship. The missing art of “artist development”. For fear of turning this into a “shameless plus”, ill just say…checkout for “the board”.
In addition to that I have been working vigorously on helping build the DC community anyway I can. After being away from home for roughly a year, I wanted to make my presence felt. “No days off” is the slogan I created where I pop up in random spots in the DC metro area, barber shops, basketball games, football games, Gogos, random neighborhoods. I think its important to touch the community as much as possible. I did a toy drive in NE DC with WPGC where I donated about 500 in new toys. I did another one one tomorrow in PG county on DEC 21st. I did a shoe drive with jive recording artist Raheem Devaughn and former NBA all star Steve Francis.
At the end of the day I’m happy with what I was able to accomplish so far, one single in and about 50k sold off that..Pretty girls video will be shot sometime in the next two weeks. And I am currently routing my tour starting next month. thnx u evrrybody 2010 will be great
WALE!!!
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