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Pitchfork 6.7/10 On Wale's fast-moving, breezily entertaining, patently ridiculous Maybach Music debut, Rick Ross has taken a temperamental rapper whose name had become synonymous with commercial kryptonite and molded him into a passable pop star.
A.V. Club C Wale’s 2009 debut, Attention Deficit, wasn’t just a flop. It was a potential career-killer, selling a paltry 28,000 copies in its first week—a number that, given the hype and hopes around the rapper at the time, would have been disappointing for a small independent release, let alone a labored Mark Ronson production…
Rolling Stone 3/5 Check out our album review of Artist's Ambition on Rolling Stone.com.
Slant 3/5 The question confronting Ambition isn’t whether Wale’s got the drive.