Ok... it’s so nice to listen to refreshing music; it’s even better when you buy an album and you can just sit there, dance there or lay there (or whatever you do when listening to music) and not have to repeatedly skip through the tracks!!!
The feeling I got from listening to Wale’s ‘Attention Deficit’ was the same feeling I got from listening to early Kanye West music; an easy listen, different, funny, creative, thought provoking, intelligent, cocky and hard. Wale chooses to opt out of the mundane topics we're so used to hearing from new breed rap artist, you know the cliché? About ‘trapping’ and ‘how life was so hard growing up’. However this freshman picks very interesting and brave subjects to speak on.
For example the track ‘Shades’ featuring Chrisette Michele (which is one of my favs) he talks about his insecurities being a dark skin male! He raps ‘I never fit in with them light skins/ I thought the lighter they was/ the better that they life is/ so I resented them and they resented me...’
We have tracks like the opening song, which to me sounds like it has a heavy Fela Kuti/afro-beat influence in the beat. The song itself is like watching an opening scene from a sick movie and you get all excited, because you no it’s going to be good and it’s defiantly going to be worth the wait. He raps ‘I ain’t tryna be politically correct/But I won’t stop until I get my respect.’ (I swear I listened to this song at least 10 times before I moved on)
My only wish is that ‘Ice and Rain’ made it to the album however we are compensated with ‘Diary’ featuring Marsha Ambrosius and ‘90210’ produced by Mark Ronson.
As a first attempt I can proudly say that 'Attention Deficit' is a very impressive piece of work, which I give a:
Grade A.
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