![]() He went to Robert Morris College and Virginia State University on football scholarships, and then Bowie State University but dropped out in 2004 to pursue music full-time. and Maryland, finally graduating from Quince Orchard High School in 2001. He attended seven different high schools in Washington, D.C. He grew up on Peabody Street in Northwest DC and moved to Largo, Maryland as a teenager. Wale was born to Nigerian immigrant parents in Washington, DC. He has since then released three more albums, with Rick Ross's MMG label, Ambition (2011), The Gifted (2013), and The Album About Nothing (2015), based on his 2008 mixtape, The Mixtape About Nothing. His debut album, released by Interscope, Attention Deficit, was released November 10, 2009. In 2005 he released his debut mixtape, Paint a Picture, and has since released four more. Fusing DC's homegrown go-go genre with a streetwise Northern hip-hop sensibility, he takes samples from all genres and blends them together with lyrical dexterity. Olubowale Victor Akintimehin Folarin (born Septemin Washington, D.C.), better known by his stage name Wale, is an American rapper and producer.
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