![]() ![]() ![]() There’s not a song here that feels grounded in much more than the desire to enjoy the moment or at least feign doing so well enough to make radio playlists. “And I’m just like, ‘Wale, man, just be happier.’”Īccordingly, Shine is a more buoyant album than his back-to-basics 2015 offering, The Album About Nothing. “I put myself through a lot of doom and gloom,” he said. (The album’s title is an acronym: “ Still here ignoring negative energy.”) In an interview with Complex, he said he wanted to put less pressure on himself. Wale has promoted the new project as a record overflowing with contentment, thanks in part to a newborn daughter, Zyla. Five studio albums, and one mid-career reinvention later, we arrive at Shine, the rapper’s fourth full-length with MMG.
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