Wale “Breakup Song”
On the Rihanna-referencing Attention Deficit track “Contemplate”, Wale spent the first verse going from paranoid to anger over his girl’s inability to answer his phone call at four in the morning, leading to a decision to abruptly end their union (“She get her point across so I gotta let her be/ Im-a let her be by herself in peace”).
That same storyline thread is followed up on his newly Tweet-leaked “Breakup Song”, which fleshes out the details of her whereabouts that late night (“She got back with ol’ boy”) and finds him, after a considerable amount of time has passed, still internally struggling to come to terms with the bruising her unfaithfulness brought upon his heart and ego.
“I thought this was forever love/ Guess that was just seasonal,” he somberly reflects atop a Southern hip hop-tweaked interpolation of the Stevie Wonder classic “All I Do”; yet, despite the aching pain and bitterness still throbbing within his person, he can’t easily shrug her off, opting to seek her out to achieve some sort of closure and measure the possibility of reconciliation.
When Wale finally does catch up to her, their exchange bristles with the expected awkwardness (he pushes her for an answer on who was better in bed; she finds out he hasn’t been able to be intimate with anyone else since their break-up), but, through their conversation, he’s at least able to grasp conscience-easing comfort in realizing that their romantic partnership is best left in the past, resolving the scenario with this brilliant song-capping line: “Most times darlin’, the sequel sucks”.
Oh, how we pray that the arrival of this is leading to another great Wale mixtape sometime real soon.
DL: “Breakup Song” (alt)
BONUS DL: Stevie Wonder “All I Do (U-Tern Disco Edit)” (alt)
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