Rick Ross Signs Wale To Maybach Music - Gives Him Chain & $44,00 Watch (VIDEO)

This Super Bowl weekend rapper Wale walked away with a $44,000 Cartier watch and a new Maybach medallion because Rick Ross just signed him to his Maybach Music Record Label.

Wale explains why Rick Ross will allow him to release the kind of singles that Allido/Interscope wouldn't, as the Boss gives his new artist a gift for the wrist.

Speaking about the creative freedoms being associated with the boutique label will allow him.

"Being at a 'major label' - 'cause there's no such thing as a major label...and saying I want to put out [songs with substance], instead of having somebody say, 'Nah, black people ain't gonna believe that. That's not what they want from you,' I can be like, 'Rozay, my heart is in this record right now.' [He will respond with] 'Let's do it.'"

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Drake, Wale & Kid Cudi Featured in GQ: Did They Kill Off "Gangsta Rap"??

Drake, Wale and Kid Cudi are featured in a year-end roundup in the latest edition of GQ, pictured in a story that claims that the three of them helped kill off hip-hop's "gangster persona." Sure, it's a bit much to expect a magazine devoted to bringing white dudes pictures of Megan Fox's lady bits to discuss what's happening in hip-hop, but the gangster persona is "dead"?

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