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Wale - Nike Boots

Wale
Artist:Wale
Title:Nike Boots
Producer: Osinachi
Album:TBA
Label:Board Administration/MMG/Warner Bros.
Twitter:@Wale
Website:Wale's Website

Average Rating:   32101   3.9
Total Ratings:       45

Washington, D.C., rapper Wale lively exclaims “this ain’t a shoe song!” on the bridge of his new buzz single, Nike Boots.  Currently the iTunes “Download of the Week,” the song has resonated across the country in an extremely short period of time.  In a recent issue of Entertainment Weekly, the magazine named Wale as one of their ‘8 People to Watch in 2008,’ drawing a comparison between the creatively conscious MC and Chicagoan, Lupe FiascoNike Boots, which is produced by Osinachi, is a song you must hear in order to judge.  When a Texas artist stereotypically titles their song “Candy Paint,” the song is probably about, well, paint.  But on Wale’s foot-wear titled cut, Nike Boots, the opposite couldn’t be truer. 


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DJ Z
Rating:  54321
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Posted on Nov 28, 2007    

SBHS
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Total Ratings: 206
Rating:  43211
Sounds a little bit like the 'shawty' beat.


Posted on Nov 28, 2007    

deluex2007
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deluex2007
Total Ratings: 115
Rating:  54321
tight song, feelin this one


Posted on Nov 28, 2007    

deluex2007
Rating:  54321
Posted on Nov 28, 2007    

deluex2007
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deluex2007
Total Ratings: 115
Rating:  54321
5


Posted on Nov 28, 2007    

irving316
Rating:  43211
Posted on Nov 28, 2007    

the capital
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Total Ratings: 22
Rating:  32121
NIKE BOOTS...ANOTHER SONG ABOUT SHOES LOL..THE LYRICS STR8 N THE BEAT BUT ALL OVER THE TRACK NOT THAT FIYA


Posted on Nov 28, 2007    

Eva Rivera-Ferrell
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Total Ratings: 14
Rating:  43211
This is a hot track!!


Posted on Nov 28, 2007    

KingKarolina
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KingKarolina
Total Ratings: 109
Rating:  32121
Hot this is not.


Posted on Nov 28, 2007    

djblaze
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djblaze
Total Ratings: 2899
Rating:  21321
I never heard of him before, but I guess now I know. I think the beat is really really HARD...BUT, I think you could have put almost any other artist (B.G., Paul Wall, Young Buck, three-6-Mafie, etc.) on this track and they would still get a high score! But If I am going off of what he is spitting, its really really corny and basic. Nothing leaves you in awe like the beat is supposed to make the MC do. Oh well...Its ok though.
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Posted on Nov 28, 2007    

blkgotti79
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blkgotti79
Total Ratings: 615
Rating:  43211
I been rocking Nike boots since 05............This joint aint bad


Posted on Nov 28, 2007    

blkgotti79
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blkgotti79
Total Ratings: 615
Rating:  43211
The real ones......A buck fifty a pair


Posted on Nov 28, 2007    

Rico Sean
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Rico Sean
Total Ratings: 274
Rating:  43211
in the city (d.c.) he gets decent radio play and in the states near. and he has made an large impact because he merged mainsteam (hip hop) and local underground (go-go) and made it worked constantly. he has a good track record other than this song. google him and listen to some of his prior tracks. i like this and his other songs but can't really get with his choice of vocabulary when rapping.


Posted on Nov 28, 2007    

Rico Sean
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Rico Sean
Total Ratings: 274
Rating:  43211
and the songs isn't about nike boots. it's the fact that we continue wearing them (no matter the season) as a d.c. logo or crest. like new york and air forces, new orleans and reeboks or cali and chucks. sorry had to revote too


Posted on Nov 28, 2007    

FNFU.PCHICK
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Total Ratings: 110
Rating:  43211
straight feelin dis


Posted on Nov 28, 2007    

wastefish
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Total Ratings: 96
Rating:  43211
better than thought
if he can keep on wiv songs lyk this
BIG SUCCESS


Posted on Nov 28, 2007    

Dj mcm
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Dj mcm
Total Ratings: 514
this was almost good,
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I give him and A for tryin
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5.1-10


Posted on Nov 28, 2007    

YODILAHEE WHO?
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Total Ratings: 118
4.9876


Posted on Nov 28, 2007    

Jsims
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Jsims
Total Ratings: 57
Rating:  43211
How is he unsigned?


Posted on Nov 28, 2007    

Jamnation
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Total Ratings: 443
Rating:  32121
Its aight


Posted on Nov 28, 2007    

londons finest
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Total Ratings: 474
Rating:  43211
the beat is the reason yall like it...for real. but its good no joke, and B more be wearin nike boots more than iv seen in DC. still a good tune


Posted on Nov 28, 2007    

MemphisKid
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Total Ratings: 45
Rating:  43211
pretty good


Posted on Nov 28, 2007    

mrm3x1can
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mrm3x1can
Total Ratings: 49
Rating:  54321
excatly wat i was thinking jsims!


Posted on Nov 28, 2007    

Str8 cLasSy gUrl
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Str8 cLasSy gUrl
Total Ratings: 280
Rating:  21321
Z okae..


Posted on Nov 29, 2007    

deluex2007
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deluex2007
Total Ratings: 115
Rating:  54321
beat makes this song


Posted on Nov 29, 2007    

ICECREAMAN
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Total Ratings: 153
Rating:  43211
Im diggin that beat tha most


Posted on Nov 29, 2007    

DJ Krunk
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DJ Krunk
Total Ratings: 102
Rating:  32121
He's not a "Great" artist, but he has heart, thats why I feel all his work. You can cop his entire album on his myspace for those that want to check him out. Once again Osi Osi doing his thing, hes making moves in the industry right now.


Posted on Nov 29, 2007    

QUEEN`.
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QUEEN`.
Total Ratings: 41
Rating:  21321
This beat is the only reason why i`ll listen to the whole sonq .


Posted on Nov 29, 2007    

RonaldNChangin
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RonaldNChangin
Total Ratings: 3
Rating:  21321
It was stated befo. The beat is real good but the lyrics made it crash. Is not even talkin about nike boots, which causes it to lose some credibility anyway. He digress from that an goes into a whole explainin/pleadin type song. I give it a two.


Posted on Nov 29, 2007    

djTRIQ
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Total Ratings: 1
Rating:  54321
honestly this guy is doin big things. hes stepped his game up the past couple months and this track is definately hella fresh. keep doin your thing wale


Posted on Nov 30, 2007    

twotwofive
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Total Ratings: 25
Rating:  43211
this song really grows on you. Listen to it more than once, it has a lot more behind it then just a pair of nike boots. Wale comes hard and brings it all from the heart, he's almost a copy off of kanye. I dont see how hes unsigned.


Posted on Dec 09, 2007    

MIZZIZK
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Total Ratings: 16
HEHE NICE SONG BUT WHO BROUGHT SHOSE IN THE RAP GAME


Posted on Dec 15, 2007    

J
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Total Ratings: 15
Rating:  54321
This song dropped back in September in D.C. and MD,but this song is still crank. I got my Nike Boots, Dunks, and my 992's. Glad DMV finnally got some music on here.


Posted on Dec 26, 2007    

J
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Total Ratings: 15
Rating:  54321
And if you don't live in D.C. area then yall prob won't get the full picture.& Rico is right, Nike Boots are a D.C. thing so don't hate if u don't know what it's about. Real talk.


Posted on Dec 26, 2007    

tdotraza
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Posted on Dec 26, 2007    

jjgirl
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Total Ratings: 1
Rating:  54321
Wow, ok, as he proclaims... "this AIN'T a shoe song" ya'll that's dissing these lyrics must not listen. He does talk about Nike Boots, he spits that it's the one thing that bands people together because everybody's wearing them. He spits about how popular the black Nike boots are because nobody can hate when you don't wear a color meaning that gangs who seperate themselves by wearing colors is really just dividing the people as a whole. Before you diss lyrics, listen to them and what they mean. This joint is tight not only because it has a mainstream beat that people can dance or post the wall to, but it has deep lyrics but a simple chorus that people like y'all can understand when you miss the entire meaning of the song.


Posted on Dec 26, 2007    

shonuff
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Total Ratings: 6
Rating:  54321
Uptown Roamers Southside Riders


Posted on Dec 27, 2007    

WOW!!!
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Total Ratings: 257
Rating:  32121
I like it.


Posted on Feb 01, 2008    

Desides1
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Total Ratings: 59
Rating:  43211
Da first time I was like its otay...BUt den i listened to it and Da beat caught me up and Dude can flow!!YA dig!!


Posted on Feb 19, 2008    

Mike Dreams
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Mike Dreams
Total Ratings: 2133
Rating:  54321
I don't know how I missed this when it dropped, but it's the hottest song out right now! The video is dope, the verses are real and the hook is swaggerific! Wale is NOW ON THE RADAR!

"Goadome Nikes, the cortazone of the poem writer
none like us
so none like us"


Posted on Jan 03, 2009    

Mr.Top Hat
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Mr.Top Hat
Total Ratings: 3522
Rating:  54321
dis is year old but i still bump it daily..... & I'll be playin this one for years to come!.....


Posted on Jan 21, 2009    

Breeze
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Total Ratings: 1
Rating:  43211
Nike boots is da @*#$! shotout 2 wale dis ma song and da gud part is not bout shoe.


Posted on Jan 30, 2009    

djswif32
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Total Ratings: 1
Rating:  54321
hottest song out right now


Posted on Feb 25, 2009    

SoSo89
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Total Ratings: 110
Rating:  54321
I'm a fan of Wale n Kid Cudi and I agree with MH Wale Is definitly one the Radar


Posted on May 01, 2009    

Aussie_Pride
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Aussie_Pride
Total Ratings: 1177
Rating:  43211
Still in my rotation, the song is a banger


Posted on May 21, 2009    

Bobby # 1
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Bobby # 1
Total Ratings: 125
Rating:  21321
OH HELL NO


Posted on Nov 16, 2009    

Frmdabottom
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Total Ratings: 111
Rating:  43211
Beatz hard and wale'z a spitta so it wuz destined fa gr8ness


Posted on Dec 12, 2009    

bfears
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bfears
Total Ratings: 163
Rating:  43211
this song is amazing. wale is that dude!


Posted on Dec 23, 2009    

thefemalepot
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Total Ratings: 38
but on another note, shout outs to my boy MAX B - just had to throw that out there ... but anyways bout to go listen to the track


Posted on Jan 09, 2010    

Young Platinum
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Young Platinum
Total Ratings: 61
Rating:  32121
not really feeling it


Posted on Dec 29, 2010    

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