Intro About Nothing
Wale
So this is what it’s like, huh? Fame, I mean you know what of it I’ve experience, this is what it felt like. B list celebrity, a handful of albums out and I still ain’t up there yet, but if this is anything relatively close to what it’s like I don’t think a nigga tryna get up there.
There are perks, of course. Every once in a while people know who you are, people show you love and act like they feel you. Might get some free shit here and there, not to mention the money man. The Money has to be the best perk of them all. Then there’s the women, bad ass beautiful women who wouldn’t give a nigga the time of day if it wasn’t for my money. Yeah the women go crazy sometimes, but crazy bitches got the best pussy.
Houses, cars, shit I would never have imagined having in my youth. Perks.
However, there’s also deep dark contrasts. Working my ass off all day everyday first and foremost. If you not putting in work you lose relevance, as I suppose I have lately. To add insult to injury the recognition isn’t always good. There’s alot of factitious love, alot of hate, alot of misunderstanding. If you not always smiling, and faking, and you speak your mind man, that’s a whole different ballpark. You’re supposed to make shit people can dance to, shit people can dream about; they don’t want you to relate.. to connect, to influence.
There’s so much shit going on, so much beyond music, so much beyond me and all I can do is do what I love. Music. Even when nobody is listening anymore, it’s all I can do.
I don’t politic, I don’t make fake bonds and hold on to people for what they do for me. I don’t know if I’m smart or stubborn, but my pride and self respect is worth more than a few mil and some pussy here and there. I’ve learned alot about life, alot about the music industry, alot about the people surrounding me and shit a hell of alot about myself. and I’ve found that I just don’t care bout none of this shit.
Whether I get the respect I deserve, or don’t earn a single dime off this shit, I choose to put my truths on this next album.
I mean I figure they don’t care nothing about albums... so why don’t I give them an album about... nothing?
