[VIDEO] Wale Talks Anxiety When Meeting Fans + Why He Needs to Be Liked

How a celebrity is pegged as the villain:

When you’re a celebrity people love to latch on to whoever is going against you. The one with the check is always the villain because he’s the minority. He’s the one they can’t relate to. 

Why he loves to be liked:

I loved to be liked. The more liked you are the more financially well off you are. Of course you want to be liked but how in this day and age. I think Lil Wayne is one of the best rappers in the world. People hate on him and say he’s whack. Or like when we were growing up, people like Iverson because he looked like us, dressed like us, and they would downgrade Kobe because he lived in Europe. How is he sorry?

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