#ambition

It seems since Wale announced that he'd be releasing an album on 11.1.11, entitled "Ambition" and then with the consequent release, everywhere I see is the word ambition. #Ambition was all over Twitter, people quoting Wale, adding him to their Tweets, and then Facebook statuses like "#ambition" (woah der...Facebook is not Twitter). Some of my favorite tweets have been from some of my guy friends, praising the "ambitious girl" ("S/O to college girls studying right now instead of sitting in yoga pants eating nutella, #ambition #yogapantslie #bitchesaintfoolinme"; "go girl, #ambition"; No matter how bad your day go, S/O to that ambitious girl, do you thang boo #Ambition #GoGirl.") that Wale serenades in some of his songs. As bad as it sounds (and I hate to say this boys) most of the time, I see my close guy friends as not appreciating the women in their lives who are striving for an education and money. Now, this perspective has changed a lot since my freshman year, because obviously those boys have matured and aren't pursuing the infamous "freshman experience" (you should know what I mean...) Recently, and I wouldn't say this is due to Wale, but perhaps his influence is there, the females in my life have been disregarding boys and instead are looking to get money, get good grades, and be independent and strong- intimidating for males usually. But seeing my male friends tweets praising the ambition that women have (especially in college) made me happy, and more importantly, proud. Not only has Wale released songs such as these, but other extremely popular rappers have too- like Drake, on his "Make Me Proud" track, for example. Hip-Hop and Rap, more recently then ever it seems, have been dominating mainstream media and music, it seems like everyone is listening and with that kind of attention comes a responsibility to raise the bar, set lyricism standards higher, and more than ever, praise that ambition- especially with women. This appreciation of female ambition is just one of many reasons (that I've noticed lately) why I feel like I can finally stop calling some of the males in my life boys and start actually referring to them as men. 


Ambitious Girl
Ambitious Girl, pt. 2




"Easy to dream a dream, but much harder to live it, look, they gon' love me for my ambition, beautiful music, painting pictures that be my vision..." - Wale Folarin