Maybach Music Group rapper Wale covers the upcoming consequence of Rolling Out magazine, where he opens up almost his new album Ambition, in stores this week, and existence an advocate for black women.

Wale recent defenseless some flack from blackness women for not having nighttime-skinned females in your "Pretty Girls" video. See his response below:

"It wasn't most that, only it showed me what I meant to the black culture. That fabricated me realize that people hold me at a higher regard. That was when I knew I had to make a alter. For "Pretty Girls," I didn't become on set until there were dark-skinned girls at the video shoot. I was waiting. The most horrible feeling in the earth, was that my women think that I don't care near them. I'd rather become broke than for my black women to think that I don't care most them. I would rather lose everything than to have my queens think I'm turning my back on them. I was the only kid in my neighborhood with a father. And that's because I'm African and they don't divorce. It messed me up. When I was in Mississippi, a girl told me she had her start kid at xvi. So I fabricated a song called "Illest B—- Alive." In that location's a special place in my heart for black girls. If you're black and have a blackness mother, y'all know how special they are."

On what he finds almost attractive in a woman

I like girls who can get the intellect popping. Instead of liking me just because I rap, I similar girls who tin can inquire nigh where I was mentally when I thought of making a certain record. I can detect a nice amount of girls who recall I'm attractive or whatever, simply intellect is very of import. "Lotus Blossom Bomb" was a record that I wanted to create a long time ago. I'chiliad not sure if radio was ready for that at the time. That's kind of an adult vibe. I was 23 when I was writing my first project. I was doing what I was told to do instead of doing what my eye told me to do.

On having artistic liberty at MMG

"The difference is freedom. I'm very in tune with urban civilization. I felt my last situation wasn't allowing me to grow with the urban culture. They saw a Lady Gaga opportunity and I went with it. I was a new artist and I didn't get it. I idea I was being ignored by black America. Information technology'southward not as much money, merely to connect with the people I grew up with is more important than connecting with pop fans. Even the white people who are familiar with my music deserve to hear what I'grand actually saying. I shouldn't be marketed toward elevation 40. When I listen to my first album, yous can hear who I am talking to. But I now have an opportunity to change that."

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