The Seinfeld-inspired album is a 14-track therapy session that takes audiences through the last few years of Wale’s personal and professional struggles, and may be a return to the melodic, heartfelt spoken word for which he was well-known and intermittently loved. Wale’s fourth studio album, deceptively titled The Album About Nothing, is what happens when a rapper devotes 10 years to his craft, switches labels, subsequently tops the Billboard charts, loses a close friend to a car accident then a child to miscarriage soon after, and realizes that the music industry, the one place he desperately seeks approval, still fails to recognize him as a force amongst his peers. As time proceeds, preoccupied with everything, I think it's 'bout time that I sing of nothing." "Lord, my all, what you think of it? Been on this long road accumulating luggage. ![]() Rapper Wale has had a rough couple of years, and what better way is there to learn from it all than by writing an album about nothing?
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