People need to understand that when you make a video, you're making an image, an image that you want to use to sell your music. - Joy Daily, who possesses a certain flair for the obvious I thought Wale would be the hipster rapper who beat the odds, not so much in the sense that he would have a successful career, but in the sense that, rather than his career imploding all of a sudden, in a ridonkulous, embarrassing PR clusterfuck, like his fellow XXL Freshman 10 Asher Roth and Charles Hamilton, it would just kinda gradually fade away over time, ...

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