Wale Spits His Heart Out in New Video for ‘Folarin Like’

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Yesterday (Dec. 6), Wale delivered his new freestyle over the classic “Nas Is Like” instrumental. Today (Dec. 7), Folarin unleashes the accompanying music video.

You can watch the Chop Mosley and Big Vic-directed visual above via YouTube. Throughout the nearly four-minute, black-and-white clip, the DMV artist wears a winter coat, takes sips from a bottle, and walks along the side of a street while finding his flow.

Ralph spits, “It’s December now/When they simmer down we start burnin’ ’em/It’s embarrassing/There’s literally no comparison/That’s like comparing Yogi Berra and Yogi Ferrell/I’m the coldest poet, they never show it/I show up like the fuckin’ bear from Revenant/Barely niggas is Yogi Bear in here/Mo, this is a picnic walk/I sip gin, tonic in booth then I big shit talk.”

Wale continues to drop clever sports references, and then he makes mention of an upcoming collaboration with South Korean boy band BTS. He raps, “Literally I live in Maryland, Beverly Hills and the charts/Yup, and with the pen it’s like I’m like Kemba with ball/I’m Kyrie, Jamal Crawford, guard me and you fall/Foreign features from South Korea/BTS be the shit, we about to see it/I am not North or South, I am just DMV.”

“Folarin Like” is Wale’s second straight strong release. In case you missed it, the More About Nothing artist dropped “Groundhog Day” a few days ago in response to J. Cole’s new track, “False Prophets.”

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