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Government Name
Olubowale Victor Akintimehin (Born November 21, 1984 in Washington, D.C.)

Group
All City Chess Club:
Lupe Fiasco (Born Wasalu Muhammad Jaco February 17, 1982 in Chicago, IL)
Asher Roth (Born Asher Paul Roth, August 11, 1985 in Morrisville, PA)
B.o.B. (Born Bobby Ray Simmons, November 15, 1988 in North Carolina)
The Cool Kids
~Chuck Inglish (Born Evan Ingersoll in Mount Clemens, MI)
~Mikey Rocks (A.K.A. Sir Michael Rocks) (Born Antoine Reed in Matteson, IL)
Charles Hamilton (Born Charles Eddie Lee Hamilton, November 10, 1987 in Cleveland, OH)
Blu (Born Johnson Barnes, April 15, 1983 in Inglewood, CA)
Diggy Simmons (Born Daniel Dwayne Simmons III, March 21, 1995 in Queens, NY)
Wale (Born Olubowale Victor Akintimehin, November 21, 1984 in Washington, D.C.)
J. Cole (Formerly: Therapist) (Born Jermaine Cole, January 28, 1985 in Fayetteville, NC)
Dosage

See Also: Rick Ross, Asher Roth, B.o.B., The Cool Kids, Charles Hamilton, Lupe Fiasco & J. Cole

Albums
Wale - Attention Deficit
Wale - Ambition

Mixtapes
Wale - The Mixtape About Nothing
B.o.B. & Wale - Leaders Of Tha New Kool Pt. 1
Wale - The Eleven One Eleven Theory

Also Featured On...
Bun B - Southern Royalty
J. Cole - Friday Night Lights
Raheem DeVaughn - The Love & War MasterPeace
DJ Drama - Quality Street Music
DJ Green Lantern, Russell Simmons & Barack Obama - Yes, We Can
DJ Khaled - We The Best Forever
DJ Khaled - Kiss The Ring
KiD KuDi - A Kid Named CuDi: The Mixtape
KiD CuDi - Dat Kid From Cleveland
KiD CuDi - NASA Music
KiD CuDi - CuDi Trek
Stephen Marley - The Revelation Part 1: The Root Of Life
Maybach Music Group Presents: Self Made Vol. 1
Maybach Music Group Presents: Self Made Vol. 2
Monica - New Life
N.O.R.E. - Crack On Steroids
Statik Selektah - 100 Proof: The Hangover

Bio From AllMusic.Com
The self-proclaimed "Ambassador of Rap for the Capital," Washington, D.C.-based rapper Wale (pronounced "wah-lay") was able to transcend his local sensation status and become a national rap contender using go-go-inspired hip-hop as the vehicle for his lyricism and clever wordplay. Olubowale Victor Akintimehin was born in D.C. in 1984 to Nigerian immigrants who first arrived to America five years prior. Moving to Maryland at age ten, however, Wale was mostly raised in suburban D.C. He attended both Robert Morris College and Virginia State University on football scholarships, but then transferred a third time to Bowie State. The music bug already had bit him hard, and soon he quit Bowie State to turn towards a recording career.

Wale got his first airplay circa 2003-2004 with "Rhyme of the Century," thanks to the help of a local radio DJ who believed in his potential. This landed him in the "Unsigned Hype" column in Source magazine the following year. In 2006, Wale signed to local start-up imprint Studio 43, owned by a former VP of Roc-a-Fella Records, and enjoyed a string of hits in the D.C.-Maryland-Virginia area that year. Many of those records sampled from '80s go-go, a more raw, percussion-driven offshoot of disco originating in D.C., like the popular "Dig Dug," a tribute to Ronald "Dig Dug" Dixon of go-go band the Northeast Groovers. The use of the Internet and MySpace were big factors for his success, which is how British über-producer and DJ Mark Ronson (Amy Winehouse, Christina Aguilera, Rhymefest) caught wind of the go-go MC in 2007. Wale then struck a production deal with Ronson's Allido imprint and released the 100 Miles and Running mixtape that summer. Despite not being signed to any major label yet, tons of press, ranging from XXL magazine to The New York Times, started to cover the D.C. sensation in 2007 and 2008. After a bidding war that included Epic, Atlantic, and Def Jam, Interscope finally grabbed Wale for its roster in early 2008. - Cyril Cordor

Official Sites: Wale, MySpace, Facebook & Fuckin' Twitter