The Official Wale Thread: Ambitions in Stores 11.1.11

[Rootin4EverybodyBlack]

If you take off Miami Nights, Slight Work, and White Linen.  Replace with Tats On My Arm, Bait, And Bad Girls Club. You have a drastically improved album.
How do you make a video for every song thats NOT on the album 

.  How do you not put Bait on the album when that's the hypest song you got out...or ever put out.  People go wild for that s***.  

DC or Nothin is by far the best song on the album then.

 

[airjordan jb23]

Bait, Tats on My Arm, & Bad Girls Club should have replaced songs 8-10.
Agreed.

Answers, WE DEMAND THEM!…Could've made da album ride so much doper...da MATERIAL WAS THERE...remindsMe when cam dropped crime pays, & alot of album filler could've been replaced wit HEAT BANGERSThat were recent that were floatin around da net.

Till this day Im still

that Let's Talk About It didn't make the album.

 

[rhester]

Why don't yall just add Bait, Best Night Ever, and Tat's On My Arm to your version of the album..
Yall act as if these songs aren't available for download and 2/3 don't have videos for them...

 

[irie]

ambition track is crack!!!

when i hear ross doing his signature "ughh" during the course i get amped!!!!

 

[got shoes]

I dislike Bad Girls Club, but Tats on my arm should of been on it. Could of replaced Sabotage, Slight Work or Focused

 

[amdoctor]

i just felt like he couldve dropped the slow songs! no neyo no miguel no lloyd

 

[amdoctor]

Originally Posted by got shoes

I dislike Bad Girls Club, but Tats on my arm should of been on it. Could of replaced Sabotage, Slight Work or Focused

This.
  

 

[dipsetgeneral]

 

[ninjahood]

Originally Posted by rhester

Why don't yall just add Bait, Best Night Ever, and Tat's On My Arm to your version of the album..
Yall act as if these songs aren't available for download and 2/3 don't have videos for them...

making ur own album isn't da way da album came out as....it reflects heavily on a rapper when he leaves off good songs on albums and leave on weak tracks...trust me it bothers me to no end, im a Nas fan

wale could've cleaned up with a simple song selection swap...videos for songs not on da album..o' bate and switch

 

[dipsetgeneral]

 

[ninjahood]

this should have been on the album

dragonk214 2 days ago 64

 

[playoff12]

Originally Posted by AMdoctor

i just felt like he couldve dropped the slow songs! no neyo no miguel no lloyd

I'm sayin', though. I wish Underdog, Bait and Tats On My Arm were on there instead. Or he could have at least done Ambitious Girl 3 and kept it down to like one or two slow songs. I don't even like That Way, never did.
I like most of the album, but I could have done with the slow songs and Slight Work.

My favorite tracks are Focused, Ambition and DC Or Nothing. Kid Cudi killed that chorus.

I'm a huge Wale fan, but it's definitely not a classic, unfortunately. I'd give it like a 7/10.

 

[solewoman]

Originally Posted by DipsetGeneral

was that a fan that snuck on stage ar 2:30...son got bodied off. lol but was right back on...and did he really sign some girls jewel beaded clutch? which one of you nt'ers had him sign your cg iv?  lol did anyone catch how he didnt shout out pil?

 

[airjordan jb23]

When Meek Mill came out... That place went off.

 

[bush man 2002]

French Montana had that joint rockin a lil too

...shocked me alittle

 

[solewoman]

i cant wait to see meek in concert.

 

[ervinsb91]

Originally Posted by ninjahood

Originally Posted by rhester

Why don't yall just add Bait, Best Night Ever, and Tat's On My Arm to your version of the album..
Yall act as if these songs aren't available for download and 2/3 don't have videos for them...

making ur own album isn't da way da album came out as....it reflects heavily on a rapper when he leaves off good songs on albums and leave on weak tracks...trust me it bothers me to no end, im a Nas fan

wale could've cleaned up with a simple song selection swap...videos for songs not on da album..o' bate and switch

 wale hit us with that Bait and switch

 

[ill legal operation]

Originally Posted by TheGrimm

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[h1]A CAUTIONARY RAP TALE: How Wale Went From Mixtape Darling To Commercial Dud[/h1]
Kevin Lincoln | Nov. 2, 2011, 11:16 AM | 118| 3

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If you're looking for a case study in the pratfalls of the new music industry, search no further than Washington, D.C. rapper Wale, who released his sophomore album "Ambition" yesterday.

Since his earliest mixtape work, Wale has shown himself to be a talented rapper who can't write hooks, and his major label efforts are frictionless affairs that slide by in boring competence.

But let's start from the beginning.

In 2007, Wale broke out with the mixtape "100 Miles and Running," and he followed that with the equally impressive "The Mixtape About Nothing" in 2008. Both tapes showcased a formidable wit and sophisticated flow — and don't think that "Seinfeld" reference wasn't irresistible to rap bloggers.

So, the D.C. boy, the one who still pays homage to his hometown's go-go music, blew up nationwide, signing with Interscope Records. That proved little consolation when his tepid, confusing debut album, 2009's "Attention: Deficit," had a disastrous first week, moving only 28,000 units and missing the top 20 amid accusations that it was undershipped and abandoned by the label.

Eventually fleeing Interscope for Rick Ross' Maybach Music Group, Wale had learned the hard way that convincing listeners to buy an album has a degree of difficulty far greater than feeding them a free mixtape, even for a blog darling.

He changed tactics in the run-up to "Ambition," partnering with music downloading site Hulkshare to advertise the LP after he crashed the site's servers with mixtape "The Eleven One Eleven Theory." Now, "Ambition" touches down to the sound of crickets, and it looks like Wale might repeat this whole ordeal again.

Despite topping the iTunes charts, chatter surrounding "Ambition" has been minimal. In switching to Ross' label, Wale surrounded himself with rappers who are all better than him at MMG's brand of rap — forceful, shuddering bangers paired with poignant storytelling.

Rick Ross has more charisma in his beard than Wale does in his entire body, up-and-coming Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill has settled in as Ross' right-hand man and Ohio import Stalley seems to be the designated backpacker.

That means Wale's left without a role, again, and you can hear that confusion on his new album.

Devoid of character, "Ambition" flaunts Wale's technical ability and not much else. Other than on "Legendary," where a middle-ground is finally achieved between MMG's menace and his mixtapes' city-at-night insouciance, the beats fall flat around Wale's schizophrenia.

With a solid base of listeners but little radio presence, Wale's closest recent precedent appears to be the deplorable Big Sean, who appears on "Ambition" track "Work" and, like Wale, counts himself among the coterie of a rap titan, in this case Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music. Sean sold 87,000 copies of "Finally Famous" during its first week of release in June, and that number probably represents the ceiling for "Ambition."

If "Ambition" doesn't touch the top ranks of the Billboard charts — which, without a major single, is certainly possible — Wale will have another failure on his hands, this time for MMG and Warner Bros. Hopefully, tweets from LeBron and Ochocinco translate into album sales, but don't count on it.

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[h1]Wale’s ‘Ambition’ is catchy but not a standout performance[/h1]

Josh Sisk/FOR THE WASHINGTON POST - Wale onstage at Yardfest Music festival at Howard University.

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[h3]By Chris Richards, Published: October 31[/h3]

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[dland24]

You guys are judging this album based on what you think should or wish was on the album, rather than what is actually on it. Its a good album. To go along with my point, mixtapes are almost ruining peoples albums, rather than promoting it. You guys are *****ing about songs you heard from the internet not being on the album, when you should just be appreciating the ones that are.

To me, Ambitions is a really good album.

 

[ninjahood]

Originally Posted by dland24

You guys are judging this album based on what you think should or wish was on the album, rather than what is actually on it. Its a good album. To go along with my point, mixtapes are almost ruining peoples albums, rather than promoting it. You guys are *****ing about songs you heard from the internet not being on the album, when you should just be appreciating the ones that are.

To me, Ambitions is a really good album.

couldve been better though...ALOT better, and he had da material....which is so frustrating.

 

[oneforall]

I didn't like it that much. To me Wale's best work is More About Nothing. 
Edit. Pitchfork gave the album 6,7 which is quite accurate to me. Nothing special but not bad. 

 

[Peep Game]

Originally Posted by dland24

You guys are judging this album based on what you think should or wish was on the album, rather than what is actually on it. Its a good album. To go along with my point, mixtapes are almost ruining peoples albums, rather than promoting it. You guys are *****ing about songs you heard from the internet not being on the album, when you should just be appreciating the ones that are.

To me, Ambitions is a really good album.

So basically what you're saying is people should lower their expectations for albums they think will be really good? Ok.

I do agree w/ the part about mixtapes though, especially cause rap as a whole is oversaturated with them. Guys are sacrificing a lot of
their really good material just to maintain buzz. But Wale is gonna benefit cause he is predicted to have good sales, so props on him for
that.

 

[playoff12]

I'm not solely basing my opinion of the album from what I wish what song was on there or not. I'm just saying it could have been better, if they were on the album. He said it's going to be a classic album, so I expected that. IMO, a classic album is for me to be able to listen to the whole thing without wanting to skip a track.

I just don't think Lotus Flower Bomb, Sabotage, White Linen, Slight Work or That Way fits into the album name very well. I don't really like Chain Music either.

Anyways, I like Attention Deficit better than Ambition. I like both albums, though.

 

[jsmith42]

Females love Lotus Flower Bomb,and Slight Work is catchy. Dont understand why he would have left those two off. Not a classic album, but it is a good album.

 

[ninjahood]

Originally Posted by Bush Man 2002

French Montana had that joint rockin a lil too

...shocked me alittle

well it is NYC.