Earlier this week, during a promo run for his new album The Gifted, he stopped by Nitecap with Peter Bailey to talk about his new project as well as how heās been affected by fame in the last few years.Ā The conversation eventually ventured into love with Wale admitting that he doesnāt have a girlfriend currently because of his attitude, selfishness and greed.
He also admits he is trying to figure out what love is while saying that he canāt wait until he is able to experience fatherhood because he believes he has more than enough love to give to his kids.
Catch a few highlights and video below:
On why he canāt keep a girlfriend
[ā¦] Because of my attitude, my greed. The nature of a man I embody that. Iām a living embodiment of all the flaws, greed, the selfishness. Iāve got all of those things. Iām just knowledgeable enough to speak on them and Iām secure with where I am in my life. A lot of men keep it inside or are living in denial. I just live my life that way.
On love
I went through years at a time where I didnāt even really believe in it. I thought it was all chance and chemical imbalance. It was kinda euphoria, when its like the right time, the right place, the right shape, the right situation. When you think something is going on in your mind and in your heart but in actuality its all lust. As growing Iām still trying to figure out what love is to me. But I think it is different to everybody though. I really do think thereās a different internal definition thatās beyond words for everybody [and] for what love is. Thereās relationships where people really can feel love but there not magnums. So, everybodyās description of love might be different and Iām still trying to figure it out.
On showing emotion
Emotion is a taboo in hip hop. I donāt know when that started. But I just feel like we are supposed to be poets and we cant sing and do all that ā emotions is suppose to come through our words. So when you take that emotion away, youāve got a bunch of sh*t thatās monotone and youāre not really feeling nothing. [ā¦] I feel like emotion is good in hip hop. [They’ll say being emotional] is like being a woman or whatever. Thatās how it is. [ā¦] Iāve come to grips with the fact that Iām kind of an emotional person. Thatās what makes me make songs like āLotus Flower Bombā or a lot of things people fell in love with on my mixtape.
On the one thing men need to stop doing
I just feel like we just canāt keep running away. I canāt wait until I have kids because Iāve got so much love to give them. Thatās going to be whatās going to give me that peace that nothing is ever going to be able to give me. We just canāt keep running away. A lot of times women do add to it now too, like women, a lot of them like to manipulate men and use their children as pawns. I always say, āWhy use youāre child as a pawn, when there should be a king and queen?ā Like, a lot of women will be like, āOh, youāre not going to come and pick your child?,ā when in actuality they really wanna say, āYouāre not going to come over and make me feel okay or give me some type of attention? Iāve put on this weight since this baby and I aināt been looking the same and my self-confidence aināt what it used to be and I need some type of attention.ā Thatās what it really means sometimes. They tried to make it seem like the [guys] donāt care about their child or whatever. But for the most part, black women canāt keep running away. Thatās a cycle thatās been around for years.
I love the fact that Wale is so honest with himself. OnPoint!
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