During Wale's appearance to promote the release of his Shine LP on The Breakfast Club on Friday, April 29, the D.C. rapper covered a range of personal and professional topics, from his relationship with J. Cole to his adaptation to fatherhood. He also touched on the state of hip-hop today, and when pop star Katy Perry's new collaboration with Migos came up for discussion, he implied that the project seems forced and contrived and that getting them together was a conscientious move by executives.
“Do you think Katy Perry would do a Wale song right now? Nah,” he said. “It’s like some A&R was like okay, ‘These guys, these guys are hot, they’re the Migos, look at this white kid at Coachella man, we’re going to get the White kids, the Black kids.'”
Wale would go on to articulate that he was speaking from a place of yearning for art to be appreciated for its unique qualities and not for its popularity.
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