Wale

You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty...

The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.

My life is better than a lot of people I know. I'm definitely happy about that.

I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?

I'd love a super human memory. My memory has never been good.

I go out, but not too much. When I'm on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep.

It's a trend to insult Wale, like that makes you cool on the Internet, and a part of it is because I respond.

I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.

Ruzzle's my therapy. When I get off the stage from a packed show and I'm exhausted, I'll just go Ruzzle for like a good 30 minutes.

I never understood the idea that I was a 'backpack rapper.' I think that's a lazy way that people started thinking. They like saying that because I got dreads. I look like I belong a certain place, so...