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Article: Wale Joins Jay-Z's North American College Arena Tour.
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- Telecommunications Weekly
- Article date:
- October 21, 2009
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After being hailed as "the greatest new rapper since Jay-Z" (GQ, June 2009), Wale will be featured on hip-hop giant Jay-Z's new tour North American College Arena Tour. The tour will make 24 stops at a mix of college campus arenas and traditional venues across North America kicking off at Penn State University on October 9th. To coincide with that exposure, Attention Deficit (Allido/Interscope), the much-anticipated debut album from Wale--the first D.C. rapper to gain national attention in more than a decade--will be released November 10, 2009. Wale, who most recently performed as the house band with legendary go-go band UCB at the VMAs, has been catapulted onto hip-hop's ...