Wale Backstage at WiLD Splash
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00:00It's Wild 94.1, it's the Net House, and we ain't got Babs in the building right now,
00:08Wild Splash 2020.
00:10The after party's gonna be at Club Sky later on tonight with myself and DJ Christian.
00:14We're about to talk to the man from D.C. himself, Mr. Wild A.
00:17What's up, what's up?
00:17How you doing, sir?
00:18I'm good, man, I'm good.
00:20Wild, that's crazy, huh?
00:21Wild, that's crazy.
00:23Listen, we're gonna go ahead and jump into the album real quick, and we're gonna talk
00:27about some other stuff, because you're coming back to the city.
00:30Actually, in April, but we'll talk about it yet.
00:32In April, is it?
00:33What's the day?
00:34What's the actual day, you remember?
00:35It's April the 3rd.
00:36Oh, my man.
00:36April the 3rd, April the 5th.
00:37My man on point.
00:38Hey, run, come on.
00:39You know what time it is.
00:40Okay, I like that.
00:41I like that talk, man.
00:42With that being said, I thought we had a gospel album when you first started the album, because
00:46on the first album, I got the Holy Ghost at the house.
00:49You're supposed to.
00:51You're supposed to.
00:52Like, you know, I want you to feel it, and you know, that sound right there that I use,
00:55that's what gives you that ultimate feeling.
00:57Like, Sue Me, I'm rooting for everybody black.
00:59Yeah, and I like how you vibed it out, too, with that, because literally when I heard
01:03Kelly Price, I'm like, he got Kelly Price on the first album, Sue Me, and literally.
01:09And the last one.
01:09The first and the last one.
01:10Yeah, and I ain't going to lie to you, after I listened to album, I started listening to
01:13gospel music.
01:14Oh, my God, that's good.
01:15You took him to church.
01:17The original song is real good, too.
01:19I think it's the Mississippi, Mississippi.
01:22Mass Choir.
01:22Mass Choir.
01:23Yeah, yeah, something like that.
01:24Yeah, I love the original, too.
01:26It's Wild 341.
01:27We're talking to Wild A.
01:28The album's good, man.
01:30Things have been good for you.
01:31So, I know you've been asked this question all the time.
01:34But, damn, brother, I have to ask this.
01:37When you're making these songs, I feel like you're trying to talk to the men on how we
01:42need to treat the ladies right now, and vice versa.
01:46You don't know when somebody's saying hello to you?
01:51I was just saying, like, she ain't even trying.
01:53I'm like, no, he ain't talking to me.
01:55Yeah, you are, man.
01:56I'm saying, what's up?
01:57Go ahead.
01:57My bad, bro.
01:58No, you good.
01:58No, no, I think all of the songs in that type of vein, they really just kind of just
02:04telling the story, like a real, and it could be some of them in real time, but some of them
02:09are, like, past experiences, you know what I'm saying?
02:11I can tell.
02:11And with everything, what we go through as men or as people in relationships.
02:17Like a song like Bad, that could be, the hook could easily be a man saying, like, thinking,
02:23you know, I never made love.
02:25It's the bad I never made love.
02:26Right.
02:26It goes both ways.
02:28It was sexy as a woman, obviously, but the thoughts, you know, both, both, everybody
02:32can relate to the thoughts.
02:33No, that's real talk.
02:35So the last we talked, man, it was right here, backstage at Wild Splash, 2012.
02:43Eight years, a lot of things popped off.
02:44You dropped a bunch of albums.
02:46You made the theme song for first take.
02:49You're practically a WWE superstar.
02:52And the one thing I wanted to touch, because they call Buck and I the odd couple all the
02:59time.
02:59How did the whole thing with you and Jerry Seinfeld happen?
03:03Um, man, like, maybe like back when I did the mixtape about nothing, like long, long ago, my manager at the time, Dan Wiseman, was like, bro, you know, Jerry Seinfeld's in Baltimore tonight and you sampled his whole mixtape.
03:22You should go.
03:23I was like, man, Jerry don't want to meet me.
03:24And then we met.
03:27And there's a picture.
03:27There's a picture floating on the internet.
03:29I had the Union 180s on.
03:31And I had this Supreme, colorful, fuchsia, Supreme hat, jacket, I mean, shirt on.
03:36And I'm at Jerry Seinfeld's concert just watching him.
03:39And then we sat there.
03:40We talked a little bit.
03:41He's like, he loved it.
03:42And we stayed cool from then on.
03:44Like, which is rare, because he's probably the richest person that I know.
03:47Him and Jay-Z, I don't know who's richest, but one of them is the richest person in my phone.
03:51And he found time to really sit there and do an album with me.
03:54I didn't even realize it at the time, especially that well.
03:57First album.
03:59Who knew that you would be best friends with Jerry Seinfeld?
04:01That's crazy.
04:04And you know what, Wale?
04:06Cash Doll has made me love you a lot more.
04:11Because I like the way she talks about how she likes how you really appreciate women.
04:17She told you that?
04:18She said that on her Instagram.
04:20I ain't going to camp and say I know her personally.
04:22No, I know.
04:22I was like, dang, you want to see Cash Doll, homies?
04:25Shoot.
04:26Love me some Cash Doll.
04:27Yes.
04:28I mean, we are both from Detroit.
04:30But I'm friends with her on Instagram.
04:31But I love the way how she speaks highly to you, about how you love women.
04:35Has your daughter made you grow even more of an appreciation for women in how you speak to us in your songs?
04:42Because I feel like you speak directly to us.
04:43Well, this is not necessarily, I don't want, I mean, look, I'm not always on the same page, but her mother showed me more of an appreciation for women.
04:54And even wanting me not on good terms or whatever, maybe the situation, I will never forget being in the room when she was pushing John out.
05:01And I think I had a revelation that time.
05:05I remember leaving a lesson named, like, crying.
05:09I remember leaving and crying.
05:11And then I was talking to somebody and it was like, why are you crying?
05:15I was like, I don't know.
05:16You know what I'm saying?
05:16And I always thought about that day for a long time.
05:20And when I think about it, it's like, my initial thought is like, wow, I'm crying because I'm not good enough to be a father to something so perfect when I'm so flawed.
05:31And that still reigns true.
05:33The other reason why I was crying is like, I truly didn't understand, like, how hard it is to physically have a child.
05:42And I just felt like I wanted to take the pain away from her, but I wanted to give her all the joy.
05:50But then I realized, like, I'm just a man.
05:53So that means you really can't really do that.
05:55You can just be there.
05:56And that gave me a whole new respect for women.
05:58Even when they get on my nerves, it's like, yo, y'all can physically push another human out of y'all.
06:03You just spoke poetry right there, by the way.
06:05No, stop it, stop it, stop it.
06:06It was like, you know, music to my ears.
06:07Nah, the girls get on my nerves.
06:09So they're telling us we got to wrap it with you, man.
06:12I was kind of deep.
06:13I don't think I gave nobody that.
06:15They're probably going.
06:16Somebody going.
06:17That's going on shade room.
06:18So I hope everybody.
06:20God.
06:20We'll bring it back up real quick then because we can never let you go without talking sports.
06:24So what do you want your skins to do with the second pick?
06:27You keep Haskins or what do you think?
06:31See, there it is.
06:32Keep Haskins.
06:33All right.
06:34Haskins, my dog.
06:34He know what he doing.
06:35You know, we just got to get comfortable.
06:37We need some linemen to protect my man.
06:39No doubt.
06:39You know, I just want to win games, man.
06:41All right.
06:41H-T-T-R.
06:42Shout out to Dan Snyder.
06:43Shout out to the whole organization.
06:44Big Tramp.
06:45We love you.
06:45Don't leave us, TB.
06:48All right.
06:48Wale, we appreciate you.
06:49We'll see you back for WrestleMania at Club Sky.
06:52All right.
06:53Wale Mania.
06:53Wale Mania.
06:54Wale Mania.
06:55April the 1st.
06:55April the 1st.
06:56Yes.
06:56I'm going to give the station some tickets.
06:58Yes.
06:58To get, you know, to get off.
07:00Y'all got, I'm going to tell you who to follow.
07:02Y'all tweet me right now.
07:03Let me, I'm going to tell y'all who to follow.
07:04We're going to give you 10 tickets.
07:06You know, y'all, we're going to break it down.
07:07We break it down.
07:08There it is.
07:09Wild 8.
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