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| Pitchfork |
 I'm not gonna lie-- when I first saw this thing, my heart sank. Wale is coming off of a high-profile bust-- his debut LP, Attention: Deficit, is probably the last time a major label will put serious money behind him-- so it's reasonable he wanted to recapture his mixtape fire. But while 101 Miles And Still Running, Further Back to the Feature, or even Attention: Surplus would've been more promising titles for Wale's comeback, More About Nothing gives the impression that what he feels the public wants isn't the inspired rapping that marked 2008's stellar The Mixtape About Nothing, but rather simply more hot fire from Elaine Benes.For better or worse, More About Nothing is a very different tape from its predecessor: For one thing, the Seinfeld quotes act more like interstitial skits than a load-bearing conceptual framework. But more pointedly, while The Mixtape About Nothing wasn't afraid to get a little weighty, what shone through was the exuberant tone. Wale sounded like someone who simply loved to rap, whatever the topic, and he served as a unifier, finding room for Lil Wayne, Clipse, Bun B, and the Roots, acts upon which battle lines are often drawn in hip-hop. The tone is considerably more deflated here, and the centerpiece fittingly isn't about Kramer or Jerry, but rather, rapped from the perspective of Tiger Woods, a flashpoint where the two dominant themes of this tape meet up: struggling with fidelity and very public humiliation....full text |
| Rap |
| More About Nothing is Wale's firm rebuttal to critics who held a premature funeral for his career after his debut album flopped. This mixtape suggests that the 9 months of backlash that followed Attention Deficit morphed into a period of rebirth for Wale. He's tougher, wiser, and more focused than he's been in a while. Well, let's talk...full text |
| Thecouchsessions |
| Let’s face it, there are mixtape artists and there are album artists and Wale is the former. However, being a “mixtape artist” is not a bad thing in 2010. With album sales at an all time low and production values shrinkin,g mixtapes have circumvented albums and in many cases sounded better than what you’re supposed to pay money for. That’s the case with Mr. Forlain, who’s debut Attention Deficit was quite simply too safe for the hip-hop masses. FIlled with several head scratchers–the inclusion of a then unknown LadyGaga on “Chillin” and a song with Crisette Michelle about skin color for starters–Wale felt like a caged animal, denied the right to let his The greatest evidence of this was the fact that all of the songs that he leaked after the album dropped (including the glorious “My Sweetie), are better than the songs on the actual album. Far from label focus groups, Wale gets to express everything from his emoness, his African-ness and his DMVness, giving the world some of the most original material to date....full text |
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