Wale On The Success of "No Hands," Love for Leon Thomas' Album 'Electric Dusk' & More | GRAMMYs 2024 - video Dailymotion

Wale caught up with Billboard's Tetris Kelly at the 2024 GRAMMYs.

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00:00 Hanging out with Wale, man. How are you enjoying the growth at the Grammys with the new categories,

00:04 Best African Performance, everything that's going on this year?

00:06 Man, it's great, man. It's like a big family reunion.

00:08 Past three years have been crazy, like pandemic, recovery from pandemic. This

00:13 feels like a real thing right now.

00:15 And when you say family reunion, what's some family you've seen out there tonight

00:18 that you've been so happy to link up with again?

00:19 Just to see people on the carpet in they bag. I just seen 21, I seen Mark Ronson,

00:27 I'm seeing a lot of Pococo Jones. It's just good to see people, man.

00:30 And I DJ a little bit on the side, and I want to say one song that always works is "No Hands."

00:36 When you recorded that song, dude, did you know that song would have the legs and the

00:39 history that it's had with just being played everywhere all the time?

00:42 I don't think nobody really know what no song gonna do. I think I was in,

00:47 you know, we catch the lightning in a bottle and history been kind to it.

00:51 Nice. And when you think about this year in music, what's been like the album of the year for you?

00:56 Album of the year? I mean, we like four weeks in, but...

01:00 Well, I mean, the last year, calendar year, last 12 months,

01:03 what's been on the top of your playlist?

01:04 Leon Thomas joint.

01:06 Leon Thomas joint, yeah.

01:08 Yeah, man, I gotta check that out. And you got a favorite in the Super Bowl this year?

01:11 The team with the most points, probably.

01:14 You know what?

01:14 All right, man, thank you so much.

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