42 Facts About Wale Folarin

Wale Folarin first gained recognition in 2006, when his song "Dig Dug " became popular in his hometown, leading Wale to became locally recognized as he continued recording music for the regional audience.

Wale Folarin met English DJ-producer Mark Ronson in 2006 and joined his label, Allido Records in 2007.

In early 2011, Wale Folarin signed with Florida rapper Rick Ross' Maybach Music Group, where members of the label released a compilation album, Self Made Vol.

In 2018, Wale Folarin released three EPs titled It's Complicated, Self-Promotion and Free Lunch.

In 2021, Wale followed up his 2012 mixtape Folarin with his seventh studio album Folarin II.

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Wale Folarin attended Robert Morris University and Virginia State University on football scholarships, then transferred to Bowie State University.

Wale Folarin's first recorded track, called "Rhyme of the Century", became his first song to ever be played on the local radio.

The song became the most requested song by a local artist in Washington DC radio history and Wale Folarin was the first local artist to get some BDS spins since DJ Kool in the early 1990s.

In July 2006, Wale Folarin found representation in Daniel Weisman, a former club DJ and promoter who had no previous experience in management.

In September 2006, after dropping another go-go influenced single, called "Breakdown" has been getting a mention on The Washington Post, Wale Folarin released his first non-go-go original single, called "Uptown Roamers".

Wale Folarin won the award for "DC Metro Breakthrough Artist of the Year" at WKYS's Go-Go Awards in November 2006.

In January 2007, Wale Folarin released a new single to radio called "Good Girls" produced by Gerard Thomas and Demario Bridges for TeamMusicGroup.

Wale Folarin later appeared on Mark Ronson's remix of Lily Allen's "Smile" and was a headliner on Ronson's UK tour that year promoting Ronson's second album Version.

In June 2007, Wale Folarin signed to a production deal with Ronson's Allido Records.

In May 2010, Wale Folarin abruptly canceled a scheduled performance at DC Black Pride, an annual black gay pride event.

Wale Folarin was featured on the cover of the 150th issue of URB along with French electro group Justice.

In March 2008, Wale Folarin signed a joint venture deal with Mark Ronson's Allido Records and Interscope, joining Rhymefest and Daniel Merriweather as Allido artists.

Wale Folarin said that the television show Seinfeld inspired The Mixtape About Nothing: "the TV show's 'honest dialogue' mirrors his lyrical style, which frequently references pop culture and politics while avoiding gangster-rap bluster".

On June 19,2009, Wale Folarin released his fifth mixtape, Back to the Feature, on which eleven of the tracks were produced by 9th Wonder, with contributions coming from Mark Ronson and others.

Daniel Weisman, Wale Folarin's manager, claimed that Interscope didn't ship enough copies of the album.

In March 2010, Rapper Wale Folarin announced he and K'Naan would kick off a short co-headlining tour across the east coast of the US, beginning at the end of March in New York City.

Since 2009, Wale has been signed to Jay-Z's Roc Nation for management along with other artists such as J Cole, Mark Ronson, Melanie Fiona and Rihanna.

On May 6,2011, Wale Folarin shared plans with MTV Networks regarding the potential release of two albums in 2011.

Wale Folarin is the first mainstream artist to officially crash Hulkshare.

On September 7,2011, Wale Folarin announced plans for a 32-city domestic tour titled The Ambition Tour, which initiated October 2,2011, in Minneapolis Minnesota and has dates through December 2011.

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On September 28,2011, Wale Folarin revealed that Ambition was complete and released the single "Lotus Flower Bomb", featuring Miguel on Twitter.

On October 27,2011, Wale Folarin unveiled an Ambition snippet sampler on YouTube for people to preview the album.

On November 25,2011, shortly after the release of Ambition, Wale Folarin announced on Twitter that he has already begun working on his third album.

Wale Folarin has started working on his third studio album which is to be released in 2013.

Wale Folarin announced he was collaborating with Jerry Seinfeld on his fourth studio album to be titled The Album About Nothing.

Wale Folarin later said he was collaborating with producer No I D on the album.

Wale Folarin said he would release a collaboration mixtape with Meek Mill during 2013.

On September 9,2014, Wale Folarin released the first single from the album The Album About Nothing titled "The Body" featuring American singer Jeremih.

On November 17,2014, Wale Folarin announced a 31-date US tour entitled the Simply Nothing Tour.

On December 24,2014, Wale Folarin released the mixtape Festivus heavily themed by the Seinfeld holiday.

On March 31,2015, Wale released his fourth studio album The Album About Nothing, which featured Jerry Seinfeld, J Cole, Usher, and SZA among others.

On October 22,2021, Wale released Folarin II, an album follow-up to his 2012 mixtape Folarin.

An avid professional wrestling fan, Wale Folarin has made several wrestling references on his songs.

Wale Folarin has made several appearances on WWE television, where he hosted a rap battle between The New Day and The Usos on the 4 July episode of Smackdown Live in 2017, and was the guest commentator during Noam Dar and TJP's match on 205 Live in 2018.

On October 2,2019, Wale Folarin escorted former NXT Tag Team champions The Street Profits to the ring for their title shot versus champions Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly.

At WrestleMania 37, Wale Folarin escorted former Intercontinental Champion Big E to the ring versus champion Apollo Crews.

Wale Folarin teamed up with Philadelphia retailer Ruvilla, and ASICS for a product called "Bottle Rocket" Asics Gel Lyte III in 2015.