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Wale is back at Genius to break down one of his latest hits, “Watching Us.” The veteran MC dives deep into the song, opening up about meeting someone who makes you glow differently, collaborating with Leon Thomas, why he’s tired of always being on the go, and more.

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00:00Scientifically, you can't really explain it, but maybe you're drinking more water.
00:03Maybe you're hot.
00:04Just happier.
00:04The right person in your life.
00:06You got a different glow.
00:13Watching this is a moment, Captain.
00:15Very, very isolated time in your life.
00:18And then you meet somebody that kind of make you feel like kind of human again.
00:23How about one night we just say, fuck it.
00:26Just go out.
00:26Just go and be free.
00:30I'm famous.
00:30You famous.
00:31They seen us.
00:32So now what?
00:33Right now we got our side.
00:34How we feel inside and the outcome.
00:36The hard launch.
00:37Dopamine rush.
00:38You know how that go.
00:39No woman come to you as a woman until you're not sure.
00:42But God bless them.
00:43They cold.
00:43Wipe they nose.
00:44I'm at you.
00:45Let's have a difficult conversation.
00:46Alright, they seen us.
00:47So now what?
00:47How do we feel inside?
00:48You carefully curated.
00:49I'm not.
00:50We gon' hard launch.
00:51Dopamine rush.
00:52My DMs is like whatever.
00:54You know what I'm saying?
00:55Or they bullying you on some blog or whatever.
00:59But God bless them.
01:00They cold.
01:01Wipe they nose.
01:01Where everybody let me on tour.
01:03But girl, it's not you.
01:04The world staring at me.
01:06They wanna know about you.
01:07The finest hypothetical woman I may or not use as my new music truthfully about you.
01:12I hate the way I'm revered in so many places.
01:15You're not revering me the way I want you to.
01:18It's what breaks that and give me the realistic like, you know what I'm saying?
01:21But we don't know each other in public.
01:23I got you tattooed.
01:24And that's cool.
01:25But who would want to hide you?
01:26I'm doing interviews.
01:27He's like, yo, who's this song about?
01:28Who's up there?
01:29I'm like, you come.
01:30Nah, I'm just rapping.
01:31I'm actually professing to this hypothetical person.
01:34I wouldn't hide you.
01:35Single doing numbers.
01:36I really want to be side you.
01:38You know?
01:39Single.
01:40B-side.
01:40I knew it was gonna be successful.
01:43But I really want to be side you.
01:44This don't matter.
01:45I want to be side you.
01:46I hear privacy is taboo.
01:48It's different when everybody love you when no one like you.
01:51So kiss me in the club, whatever gum I got you.
01:54It's difficult.
01:55We really in love trying to be casual.
01:56Everybody love you.
01:57They know your songs.
01:58Oh, what?
01:59Oh, oh.
02:00Oh, MMG.
02:01Oh, album about nothing.
02:02But you don't even know me.
02:04You don't even know my heart.
02:05You don't really like me.
02:07And this person like me.
02:08So I'm holding on for dear life.
02:10Whatever comes with you kissing me right now, in this moment, I'm a rival.
02:14I'm just submitting to the moment.
02:29Miami's Miami.
02:30Everybody know what Miami do.
02:31Okay, you in the hands with your friends.
02:32This is when it's challenging.
02:34I almost started doing the Super Spyro book.
02:37You got it.
02:38You already on Collins.
02:39I trust you.
02:40Fuck it.
02:40Let's go to Paris.
02:42Because over there they ain't watching.
02:43I mean, I know I ain't nobody, but I'm no women in Yama.
02:47Fuck it.
02:47Let's go to Paris.
02:48Because you know what?
02:50We can hold hands in the streets of Paris.
02:52I know I ain't nobody, but I ain't fucking seven foot seventeen like Victor and Yama.
02:59So it's like a play on words.
03:00Now we finally in Lagos.
03:01I can show you around.
03:03We on the way to Obie's house.
03:04And when it's over to mine, Obie got the best party in Nigeria.
03:06It's not the Obie.
03:07We not there yet.
03:08We're still like domestic, whatever.
03:10But I'm like, I'm fantasizing about taking you around the world.
03:13I'm taking you to Lagos for the first time.
03:15I'm showing you how beautiful Nigeria is.
03:21That's the second time I used that because I love that part.
03:24When I wrote the song, I had just bumped into Method Man in the gym.
03:28We don't know each other that well, but I think Clark Kent had just like passed.
03:31And Clark was really, really important to my life.
03:34He did my, like really, really.
03:37And he just gave me a hug.
03:38So it was just in me to just like put that part in.
03:40Nothing make a man feel better than a woman.
03:42Queen wear the crown.
03:43Run around with a nomad.
03:46Because I'm always on the go.
03:48And I fucking hate it.
03:49You so bad.
03:49That's old hands.
03:50Who cares if they're nobodies?
03:52I'm glad you know me.
03:53I'm good being down bad.
03:54Obie, whatever.
03:55Oh, he pressed.
03:56Okay.
03:57Oh, he gone off her.
03:58Okay.
03:59You got me?
03:59Do you got me for real?
04:01Alright.
04:01I'd be all that.
04:02Because this is this.
04:04This is what I feel like we all want at the end of the day.
04:06So that's where we at.
04:10Leon.
04:10That's like my brother.
04:11Like we just go.
04:12He my type of person in the studio.
04:14We just like chop wood.
04:17We work well together though.
04:18We got joints.
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