Event Listing - Music

Sat Jan 31

Wale

with UCB, Blue & Exile

Location	Date and Time
Mezzanine 444 Jessie Street San Francisco, CA 94103 map cross street: between 5th & 6th, between Mission & Market district: SoMa	Sat Jan 31 (9:00pm)

Description

"The self-proclaimed "Ambassador of Rap for the Capital," Washington, D.C.-based rapper Wale (pronounced "wah-lay") was able to transcend his local sensation status and become a national rap contender using go-go-inspired hip-hop as the vehicle for his lyricism and clever wordplay. Olubowale Victor Akintimehin was born in D.C. in 1984 to Nigerian immigrants who first arrived to America five years prior. Moving to Maryland at age ten, however, Wale was mostly raised in suburban D.C. He attended both Robert Morris College and Virginia State University on football scholarships, but then transferred a third time to Bowie State. The music bug already had bit him hard, and soon he quit Bowie State to turn towards a recording career." -Cyril Cordor, AMG