![]() ![]() ![]() Most rappers don’t get to try both of those approaches. Wale also did this, with Ambition, his slick-sounding 2011 comeback as part of Rick Ross’ Maybach Music Group crew. We’ve also seen rapper’s-rapper critical darlings succeed in the mainstream by changing nearly everything that brought them initial flurries of praise. The weak sales of 2009’s Attention Deficit were a punchline/cautionary tale for some time after and made people forget the quality of his true debut, The Mixtape About Nothing. ![]() Dozens of mixtape circuit darlings climb the ladder of acclaim and fan buzz to a shot at major-label success, and plenty fail in spectacular fashion, as Wale did. Few rappers have had as bizarre a career trajectory as Wale. ![]()
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