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How Rick Ross Helped Wale Get A #1 Album (Video)

blame it on Meka November 23, 2011

Per usual, these things are just debates and opinions, and should be taken as such. Like, you guys really tend to take what some of what’s said in these visuals to heart, and it’s not like we’ve all never had similar conversations with our own respective friends before. So, just take it for what it is.

Wale saw a huge increase in album sales after signing with Rick Ross’ Maybach Music Group. On Interscope Wale’s first album Attention Deficit sold 30k in its first week, fast forward 2 years and his Ambition album sells 164k first week and charts at Number 1 [Ed. note: No. 1 on the Hip-Hop R&B Charts in its first week]. Can this success be attributed to his affiliation with Rick Ross? The Friday Hip Hop Report crew discuss.

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