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Mar
20
Wale Announces New Album ‘The Gifted’

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The wait is over. Wale has unveiled the title and release date for his third album.

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Mar
5
Wale Crafts ‘Soulful’ Sound on New Album

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Wale has big ambitions. Before the year is out, the Maybach Music rapper plans to release two albums.

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Mar
4
Video: Kid Ink f/ Meek Mill & Wale – ‘Bad Ass’

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Ring the alarm. Kid Ink unleashes the fiery video for “Bad Ass” featuring Wale and Meek Mill. The L.A. rapper plays a firefighting captain, who rounds up his hot female firefighters and reports to an L.A. warehouse where an inferno is blazing. As they work to put out the flames, they find the MMG rappers inside, spitting some hot rhymes.

Following his 2012 independent album Up & Away, Kid Ink is readying his major label debut for release on 88 Classic/RCA Records.

Watch him bring the fire in the clip below.

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Feb
26
Video: Wale – ‘No Days Off’

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Wale puts in overtime in the video for “No Days Off,” a cut off his 2011 album Ambition. The Maybach Music rapper stays on his grind, performing in a different city every night in the black-and-white clip, which is comprised of footage from the road.

Wale’s third LP The Album About Nothing is due this summer featuring an appearance from Jerry Seinfeld.

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Feb
21
Video: Wale – ‘Street Runner’

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Wale takes over Las Vegas in the video for “Street Runner,” a cut off his 2012 mixtape Folarin. The Maybach Music rapper cruises the Strip with a couple of chicks in the back of a car and parties with his crew in a plush hotel suite.

He is working on his next album, The Album About Nothing, which will feature none other than Jerry Seinfeld. “He’s a very nice kind of a guy,” the comedian told Rolling Stone. “My wife is really into Wale so she’s playing the stuff and I’m getting into it so it was all great.”

Watch Wale live it up in the clip below.

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Feb
21
Video: RaVaughn f/ Wale – ‘Better Be Good’

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RaVaughn dances her way into the spotlight in the video for her debut single “Better Be Good.” The R&B newcomer, who is signed to Ne-Yo’s Compound University, teams with Wale in the TAJ-directed clip.

“I’m going through this rough patch with my boyfriend and I’m trying to work it out, trying to get it all together,” RaVaughn told Rap-Up TV on set in L.A. “He tells me he wants to go out. I’m hanging with my girls and they’re like, ‘We gotta go to this party. I’m like, ‘No, I’ma try to work it out with my boo.’”

She ends up going to the house party where she runs into her boyfriend, who is there with another girl. But that won’t stop her from having a good time. She breaks into a dance sequence with her girls as the crowd cheers her on.

RaVaughn’s Compound University/Columbia Records debut Love Always is due this summer featuring appearances from Ne-Yo and Marsha Ambrosius.

Watch the video below and go behind the scenes with Rap-Up TV.

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Feb
19
Rap-Up TV: On Set of RaVaughn’s ‘Better Be Good’ Video

From Compound University comes Ne-Yo’s newest student, RaVaughn. The R&B newcomer, who is signed to Ne-Yo’s label, stepped into the spotlight while shooting a video for her debut single “Better Be Good” in Los Angeles. Rap-Up TV was on set as she kicked her man to the curb in the TAJ-directed clip, which features Wale.

“I’m going through this rough patch with my boyfriend and I’m trying to work it out, trying to get it all together,” said the L.A. songstress. “He tells me he wants to go out. I’m hanging with my girls and they’re like, ‘We gotta go to this party. I’m like, ‘No, I’ma try to work it out with my boo.’”

She ends up going to the house party where she runs into her boyfriend, who is there with another girl. But that won’t stop her from having a good time. She breaks into a dance sequence with her girls as the crowd cheers her on.

RaVaughn’s Compound University/Columbia Records debut Love Always is due this summer featuring appearances from Ne-Yo and Marsha Ambrosius.

The full video for “Better Be Good” will premiere on Thursday, February 21.

Feb
18
Video: DJ Drama f/ Tyga, Wale, & Roscoe Dash – ‘So Many Girls’

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DJ Drama keeps the liquor flowing and the ladies coming all night long in the video for “So Many Girls” featuring Tyga, Wale, and Roscoe Dash. Shot at the Harvard House Motel in L.A., the fellas are swimming in women, who fill the hallways and bedrooms. Roscoe pulls up in his white Caddy, while Tyga and Wale keep the party going past 4 a.m.

The posse cut can be found on Drama’s latest album Quality Street Music.

Check into their hotel of pleasure.

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