(from TheDailyOrange)
Q&A with rapper Wale
DO: Could you talk a little bit about how go-go has affected your whole life and how that's influenced the new album?
WALE: The new album is basically just like life. "Attention Deficit" is almost like a metaphor for life. And I might sound like crazy pretentious, but whatever you're doing at 7:20 on April Fools' Day is not what you'll be doing at 7:20 on April 2. Let's say April 1 is track one and April 2 is track two; Two completely different things. Essentially one would think that's ADD, because you try to put it in a 45 minute span. It's like 'OK, wait. It's all over the place,' but it's not because it's three days different. The album is like fingerprints, they could look the same, but they're not. They're all different.
ADD is the concept of the album, of what is the lack of attention that needs to be put on the good side of hip-hop. People focus on the bad side - the good messages they don't focus on. The ignorance they focus on. That's why they say it's dying, it's this or it's that. The creativity they don't focus on. Auto-tune they focus on. READ MORE
