Watch: Wale Says Atlantic Records/MMG Told Him To Hide His Nigerian Roots

@ronnie

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It all makes sense now

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Yup

yeah that doesnt make sense

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Should have told him to hide the fact that he can barely rap.

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like couldn't nobody tell lmfao

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*in b4 FBAs come in and start dissing

Like him or not the boy can rap!!!!

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I didn't get that from what he said at all. What I got from it is they wanted him to focus on mainstream records and not experimental sounds in general, not explicitly Nigerian roots. Whatever they told him he was reppin his country on that first album.

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