“We black niggas with ambition,” Wale raps on album opener “Hold Your Applause,” outlining his new record’s central but barely interrogated theme. Compared to 2009’s troubled Attention Deficit, ...

Between crashing websites and restoring friendships -- not to mention blowing up radio with his fast-climbing single 'That Way' -- rapper Wale is having himself quite a year. Last week, the Washington ...

It's no secret that the friendship between Wale and Kid Cudi went sour for a while (as indicated by this 2010 interview), but the two have squashed any negative feelings and will be coming together ...