It’s a Defining Moment for a Legendary Artist Wale told me when I met him that this album almost felt like his debut album because of the full creative control he had. Previously, there was always another entity that was stepping in to oversee things, but with this album, he says he feels like it’s his first album he made by himself. You can feel that lack of restraint in the pure honesty in the album. No song feels off, each track is a piece of Wale’s mind. It’s extremely cohesive despite playing with different genres, a rare feat in today’s music typically made for playlisting and TikTok instead of aiming for classic albums, which one could argue this project is.