WALE

Wale’s confidence was never shaken. After going through trials and tribulations that would have doomed the careers of lesser MCs, the Maybach Music Group rapper is prepping to drop his highly anticipated sophomore album, Ambition, on November 1. Proudly wearing his Washington, DC badge on his sleeve, along with his penchant for witty wordplay and crafty songwriting, the 26 year-old is motivated to assert himself as one of Hip-Hop’s elite artists. Finally making the music completely on his own terms, and rolling with the Bawse Rick Ross, Wale is ready to guide listeners into his world, one aspiring bar and thumping groove at a time. “My ambition is too much to be in a box. Some people just get in a box, set up their furniture in that b**** and live there,” he says. “Whatever emotion I feel in a given moment, I want to accentuate that to the furthest degree in my music.”