Wale spoke about mental health and celebrities during a recent interview with HipHop-N-More. He posted clips from the piece to his Twitter account on Thursday (August 8), detailing the highs and lows that come with being famous.
“You’ve gotta remind yourself who you are especially with like celebrities,” Wale said. “Monday everybody — you going to bed, looking at your comments everybody telling you you’re the greatest and by Friday everybody telling you that you fell off and you’re the worst. It’s difficult.”
Coincidentally, the D.C. native declared he was a Hip Hop G.O.A.T. on Wednesday (August 8) and received plenty of positive feedback from rappers and music fans agreeing with him.
But, he still feels that a record contract should come with a mental health plan.
“I think that record deals should come with like, mental health insurance, to be honest,” he said. “I think it should be part of it. The road to success is not like — there’s no map, you know what I’m saying? And you can spiral at any time.
“It’s hard to keep yourself in check because there’s a lot of enablers and the thing that’s even worse than enablers now is people who are so determined to not be an enabler that all they do is they think they giving you tough love but they kicking you when you’re down.”
The Hip Hop community appears to be more open than ever to discuss the once taboo subject.
Kanye West revealed he was bipolar on his latest album Ye. Big Sean talked about his triumph over depression and anxiety in March, while Joe Budden has been transparent in his music and podcasts about his suicide attempts.
Boo fuckin hoo. Fuck outta here. Use some of that rapper money and get your own health and ife insurance.
Facts!! Wale always gave me a corny entitlement vibe
Tony yayo would have benefitted from what wale is saying since he is so prone to freakouts. Wale being smart is why he is relevant and tony yayo isn’t.
Tony Yayo isnt an insecure diva. He knows his lane and he sticks to it. He made a career and life out of it as a felon. I think hes enjoying life more than this try hard. Hes not delusional thinking hes one of the greats like this Whale guy.
Wale is one of the greats in hiphop history though. Tony yayo simply isn’t. Why is it that g unit fans want to take down mmg?
Health insurance for sure.
Okay, his album will be out friday
At the moment not one article on the front page is about music being released. This is a crappy entertainment site now.
I agree with you TMZ. I use to like this site but they have been reaching with their journalism and even take down my comments if they feel it’s not conducive to whatever topic/agenda at that time. Did Megan go platinum yet?
CONtracts are negotiable genius or u know instead of a chain buy it for yourself?
Wale is such a cornball. Sm1 need to smack him silly and give him a wedge.