Elsewhere within the interview, Wale additionally shared that the dearth of help by Atlantic Records for his early Afrobeats collaborations was virtually detrimental to his profession.

“I think it hurt me to my people a little bit. They couldn’t understand why these songs weren’t getting promoted. There’s a whole generation of people who don’t even know that I did it,” Wale defined. “A lot of these Gen Z kids don’t know that I took Wizkid to his first BET Awards. They don’t know we have about nine songs together. It was detrimental because Shine was my worst-selling album.”

A identified sneakerhead, Kazz spoke about how Wale was one of many first rappers to put on Anthony Edwards’s AE1 shoe on “Damage Control.”

“Last year, after the AE’s, I think we caused a little bit of a storm for them. Ant was super appreciative of it, so he and his A&R approached me at the beginning of the year, like, ‘We have to get him on this album.’”

He additionally shared his plans to develop his personal signature sneaker line.

“We’re going to have to draw a line at some point. We’re going to see. Hopefully it goes one way, but if it goes the other way, then it’s going to go the other way,” Wale mentioned. “Something good is going to happen. I’m leaving here with something.”