Wale: His 10 Best Tracks You Need To Hear

2. Shades €“ Attention Deficit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6PSV6xkzPg Production: 9 Lyrics/Flow: 10 Message: 10 Notable Lyrics: Verse 3 €œThey say "black is beautiful," but ask them beautiful/Light girls if it's black they attract to usually/What if Barack's skin was all black, truthfully/Would he be a candidate or just a blackened community?/We as black dudes tend to lack unity/And them blacker girls ain't on the tube usually/Right now at 23 I ain't mad at them reds no more/But for long time I had gone cold/Blindfolded my own insecurity was holding me back/To reds I ain't know how to act/They would get the cold shoulder and know it was an act/A defence mechanism, what I thought that I lacked€confidence€ WOW. Wale addresses the issue of the internal race battle between dark skinned black people and light skinned black people in an honest, reflective way. Best Kept Secret crafted a powerful instrumental for Wale to tell stories of his youth where he thought light-skinned people had easier lives, times where he cheated on a light-skinned girlfriend as payback for a lifetime of slights and cheering for Wesley Snipes to make his life easier. It was a bold subject to approach on his criminally slept-on first album, but one that still exists today and likely will forever, as proved by the Donald Sterling controversy; racism in America and the ridiculousness of internal racism is still ongoing. However, Wale used this song to realise the error of his past judgements, as Chrisette Michelle sang about love between all colours of people and it being based of their hearts rather than their skin. It€™s Wale€™s most important song ever.