This helped Wale establish some hype in critical circles, getting featured on MTV and in The Washington Post soon thereafter, and having XXL call him "the thinking man's Lil Wayne." One of the tape's standout tracks, the go-go-ish "Breakdown," was even featured on the soundtrack of Madden NFL 09. The other artists' tracks that he chose to jump on were notable for their stylistic breadth, with instrumentals from conscious rappers like Common, The Roots and Q-Tip butting up against those from indie acts like Gorillaz, Justice and Lily Allen. EP, and it featured a mix of freestyles and tracks that still bore the influence of D.C.'s go-go scene.
The first of these was 2007's 100 Miles & Running, its title inspired by an N.W.A. The first was superproducer and London native Mark Ronson, who signed him to his Allido Records label in 2006 the second was DJ and (at the time) Fader editor Nick Catchdubs, who went on to mix Wale's two most successful tapes. Here's part two, from Hate Is The New Love:īy 2007, he had made two key connections in the music world. These marathon-length tracks had him taking on a bevy of eclectic beats, switching his flow accordingly and rarely even pausing to catch his breath. Paint A Picture and 2006's Hate Is The New Love both failed to blow up, but they introduced Wale as an ambitious, highly skilled MC, especially on his two-part "A.D.D." series. for three years at that point, dropping his first in 2005. Although most of the national attention came in the wake of 2008's Mixtape About Nothing, Wale had been running around the mixtape circuit in D.C.
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