Wale Signs with Def Jam, Operating with Renewed Focus

Wale introduced his return to music earlier this week — shockingly, his final official launch was 2 years in the past, however his time away has blossomed into a brand new label cope with Def Jam Data!!!

Sources near the “Album About Nothing” rapper inform TMZ Hip Hop … he signed with the storied label a number of months in the past, and will probably be instrumental in navigating the subsequent side of his profession, together with the brand new observe he is dropping Friday.

We’re advised Wale is worked up about his new scenario, however this is not his first rodeo and he does not need to do a lot disruption on social media to blur the fan’s listening expertise.

In different phrases, he is a targeted man identical to the label’s greatest alum.

Joe Budden & Podcast Co. have been extraordinarily thrilled with the information and praised Wale for actually utilizing his time away as an precise hiatus … Wale’s famend for utilizing social media as an open-book diary, and Joe thinks it was clouding the imaginative and prescient.

He is already hit the bottom operating on the new workplace — including synergy to the three way partnership Def Jam inked final yr with Nigeria-based Native Data … by way of a characteristic on ODUMODUBLVCK’s “Blood On the Dance Floor” ditty alongside Bloody Civilian.

We’re advised there are additionally plans to take his native D.C. by storm. Sure, Chocolate Metropolis … Wale’s coming residence!!!