In June of 2007, Wale signed to a production deal with Ronson's Allido Records. In April of 2007, Ronson asked Wale to join him on a UK tour to promote the release of his newest album. A week later, at Ronson's studio, Wale recorded a freestyle for Ronson and in exchange, Ronson put Wale on an unreleased remix of Lily Allen's "Smile" which appeared on a number of music blogs around the world on March 13th, 2007. In January 2007, Wale released a new single to radio called "Good Girls." Daniel Weisman gave the song to Mark Ronson and on February 23, 2007, Ronson began playing the song on his East Village Radio show. He has also been linked to boutique streetwear brands The Hundreds, 10 Deep and Good Bully, as well as lifestyle brands Stussy and LRG. Wale has an upcoming promotional campaign with Remy Martin and XXL Magazine. On December 15, The Fader magazine associate editor Nick "Catchdubs" Barat visited Wale for an interview and photo shoot which appeared in the March 2007 issue of The Fader. Metro Breakthrough Artist of the Year" at WKYS' Go-Go Awards. In early December 2006, Wale won the award for "D.C. during the Southern Invasion tour at the Verizon Center. The day before Thanksgiving, Wale took the stage between Lil Wayne and T.I. In November 2006, a feature ran on 's Breeding Ground about Wale. Wale began getting radio play in 2004 with a single called "Rhyme of the Century" which got Wale in the June 2005 "Unsigned Hype" section of Source magazine and his buzz started growing. Wale emerged onto the local DC hip hop scene with the help of WKYS-FM's DJ Alizay. Before music started paying the bills, Wale worked day jobs at Sprint, Up Against The Wall and Downtown Locker Room. He went to Robert Morris College and Virginia State University on football scholarships, and then Bowie State University but dropped out in 2004 to pursue music full-time. and Maryland, finally graduating from Quince Orchard High School in 2001. He attended seven different high schools in Washington, D.C. He grew up on Peabody Street in Northwest DC and moved to Largo, Maryland as a teenager. Wale was born to Nigerian immigrant parents in Washington, DC. He has since then released three more albums, with Rick Ross's MMG label, Ambition (2011), The Gifted (2013), and The Album About Nothing (2015), based on his 2008 mixtape, The Mixtape About Nothing. His debut album, released by Interscope, Attention Deficit, was released November 10, 2009. In 2005 he released his debut mixtape, Paint a Picture, and has since released four more. Fusing DC's homegrown go-go genre with a streetwise Northern hip-hop sensibility, he takes samples from all genres and blends them together with lyrical dexterity. Olubowale Victor Akintimehin Folarin (born Septemin Washington, D.C.), better known by his stage name Wale, is an American rapper and producer.
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