Wale has released his Shine album a week early, as hinted earlier today (April 27).
The 14-track project is dedicated to his baby daughter, Zyla Moon, who appears on the closing track, “Smile.” Other features come from Travis Scott, Lil Wayne and WizKid.
Stream Wale’s Shine album below and keep scrolling for the cover art and tracklist.
(This article was first published April 6, 2017 and is below.)
Wale’s long-awaited Shine project is just about ready for release. According to Hip-Hop-n-More, the album is due out May 5 after the MMG rapper has been working on it for at least two years.
Shine is made up of 14 tracks, including the single “Running Back” featuring Lil Wayne. Other songs appear to tap into Wale’s Nigerian roots as he also enlists WizKid, Davido and Olamide for guest appearances. Chris Brown, G-Eazy and Travis Scott lend their talents to the project as well. Last but certainly not least, Wale’s infant daughter, Zyla Moon, will appear alongside fellow DC artist Phil Adé for the finale track, “Smile.”
The album cover art seems to be inspired by Zyla as it shows a baby’s hand holding a blue moon against a pink backdrop.
The project follows Wale’s Summer on Sunset mixtape, which detailed his creative process out in California. His last LP was 2015’s The Album About Nothing.
Wale’s Shine album cover art and tracklist are below.
- Thank God
- Running Back (f. Lil Wayne)
- Scarface Rozay Gotti
- My Love (f. Major Lazer, WizKid & Dua Lipa)
- Fashion Week (f. G-Eazy)
- Colombia Heights (Te Llamo) [f. J Balvin]
- CC White
- Mathematics
- Fish n Grits (f. Travis Scott)
- Fine Girl (f. Davido & Olamide)
- Heaven on Earth (f. Chris Brown)
- My PYT
- DNA
- Smile (f. Phil Adé & Zyla Moon)
He cries like a bish! all the time in interviews but hes a great MC.
His albums are solid!
Looking forward to this one.
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i care, said nobody ever.
All the features in the world, your daughter and any temper tantrum you may have won’t help you sell this project. F WALE. Garbage ass rapper, can’t even rhyme.
Wale been in it for while. Respect for getting the natives on the project. Although young Boi Semu is the swag and face of thenee Africa. Believe it.Instagram SemuLife. On mami
Who the f is Semu??? Cats be killing me. Who he signed to?
Go to the instagram young. Chck the link in bio. Pull up gon have Florida Lit.trusttrust
Caught tryna troll.Semu is do got he swagu. Semulife
i do believe this Semu you are talkin about would be the Seaworld orca whale
This album be wack wale not good
Bad cover, bad tracklist, bad features, bad rapper, bet you can expect a classic.
shit’s about to flop ain’t nobody checkin for his corny ass nerd shit.. why even post this stop wasting our time wit dis here bullshit mane
Another boring ass album by Wale.
I’m feeling the cover, but it’s Wale so I’m expecting it to be corny & trash
Wale is good. He reaches on his albums tho. Kinda hard to follow. Seems he makes music specifically for radio and his die hards. His relevancy is on thin ice. Has good intentions. U wanna support but he bores you.
Exactly! If he just made songs for his fans it would be amazing. But he’s always trying to do too much.
Biting hard on the DNA track. Should have renamed the some just off the strength.
Average album in my opinion. 2.5/5
I don’t know why but I want to support this guy and this time he actually released good solid album so thanks Wale!
Why is there so much hate towards this guy? If you’re a real hip hop head then I’m sure you enjoyed Attention Deficit…his next couple albums were eeh but then The Gifted and specially his last one TABN were solid. This guy actually puts thought into his rhymes but you wouldn’t know because he doesn’t do any of those trap beats yall used to
I really liked Attention Deficit but he lost me as a fan with those next couple albums.
Wale always be complaining then his album drop and go number one or top five??? I don’t get why he always be whining!!! But he makes some great music!! Just because he don’t be talking about LEAN AND SELLING DRUGS, don’t mean its boring!! In about 6-10 years when some of yall grow up go back and listen to Wale, then you will be able to understand what he talking about!!!
Heard the album…It is way too trappy. He needed to put more songs like “Smile” the last song on the album. That is the Wale everyone wants to hear. Smooth soulful Folarin Wale not the trap beats water sprinkler synthesizer Wale. Not impressed, and I love Wale
God awful! Hang it up, Whoopi Goldberg.
Holy fucking features carry an album on yor own possibly?
He got a song called DNA. Time for everyone to OVERREACT…..
Wale fell off on this sheesh…. Ambition was his best album and this is definitely his worse ( grabs Ciroc and drinks straight from the bottle) …Burp!
Not feeling that dance shit that he has on there that is similar to the corny shit that Drake has been doing lately that I don’t dig, but otherwise Wale is on point as usual.
This album is Genius. First off, its soooooop DC. So there are gonna be some the lyrics and beats and meaning may not be understood by everyone. Second, Wale doesn’t make his music for the sole purpose of going Platinum first week after release. So media oughta stay out his pocket and ask about his work/art/songs/tracklist. Third, some of his songs have “themes”, and those themes may be for the ladies. He is a sexy ass DMV African ass poetic Genius. #Fact