Wale: The Vanilla Ice of hipster rap?
Wale on his "hood" in Maryland, in an interview with The Smoking Section:
Well, I grew up in DC and in Maryland, but it’s basically like DC like pretty much from the 80s to the early 90s, it was Murder capital at that time and drug trafficking was crazy at that point. So growing up, we seen all that. I could remember two times when we got robbed and it was just like the poor stealing from the poor and that whole thing. And then we moved to Maryland, we moved to these projects in Maryland, and it was still bad. They paint a picture of Maryland like it’s a suburban DC, but there’s certain cracks and holes in Maryland that go unnoticed and that’s where we went. My mother didn’t know much she listenin’ to the news and she think it’s all good and it ended up being worse there. Once we got our thing together, ya know, we moved to a better part of PG County. So for the last three or four years, we’ve been there.
$habooty on the area in which him and Wale attended high school together:
I ain’t hating, but he forgot to mention that from say, 7th-12th grade, he was in Montgomery County (Mo Co). I agree PG County is extra fucked up, and is more suspect than D.C. (just visit the University of Maryland, then walk off campus), but Mo Co is not that thorough. It’s one of the richest counties in the county and the cops don’t even let you enjoy yourself at a local bar without stalking you in the parking lot. But I guess that does make it safe, eh? Anyways, our high school, Quince Orchard HS was pretty milquetoast. We did go to HS with a bunch of assholes, and douches, and cokeheads, but it def. wasn’t some hard-ass neighborhood.
I consulted the Google re: the high school those two went to, and it looks like... well, the high school I went to. The main image on the front page of the Quince Orchard High School website in particular looks like someone finally found a way to convert the contents of subconscious into film negative.
Checkit: Wale Yearbook Photos (Shabooty.com Exclusive) [shabooty.com]
