Wale the gifted vk
The Gifted is a collection of tracks from an unarguably talented emcee, but the point at which a collection of music becomes an album, a singular work with a focus and unity strong enough to truly make an impact, Wale still hasn't reached that point. But the cost of that versatility is focus. When you’re dope enough to sound dope rhyming on everything, you end up rhyming over everything. Call it the blessing and curse of true talent.
Cole, Kendrick, etc.-Wale doesn't have a distinctive sound. Ultimately though, as much as I try to focus on the present and forget about the past, listening to The Gifted sounds like listening to an artist who still doesn't really know who they are as an artist. But the truth is bangers just aren't his strength, and what’s wrong with wanting to hear someone at their strongest? If he can make a booty-shaking anthem as good as "Pop That," I’ll take it. The more you know, the more you can help prevent situations like this in one way or another.For the record, I’m not interested in something as cliché as wanting Wale to only make “conscious” records. They may be linked to media coverage in the UK around that time. Google data show that online searches for Blue Whale in the United States began in late February, with interest spiking across the country in mid-May. Why share this story? It’s clear family members who aren’t aware of the game can miss signs: The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has opened a Child Fatality Review of Nadia’s suicide, and is aware that the drawings and Russian writings may have a connection to Blue Whale. These writings surprised Nadia’s family the most, since she had never spoken about learning Russian or even being interested in it. They don’t know who the letters are directed to or whether that person was involved in Blue Whale. Some appeared to be love letters, while others showed signs of correspondence with someone.
Nadia’s family also found letters in Russian among her things. The painting took on a new meaning in the aftermath of her death. Nadia did an abstract painting of blue whale skeletons for a school project, and the school had it framed and displayed. I spend a lot of time online and hadn’t come across it until it happened.”
“None of us knew about the Blue Whale game. He looked through her sketches and found pages of whale drawings and magazine cutouts with the words “I Am a Blue Whale” pasted over them, accompanied by drawings indicating self-harm, suicidal statements with words of goodbye and multiple entries written in Russian. The photo went viral on the Russian social media site VK.com, and the attention from her death led to the discovery of her supposed involvement with something online called Blue Whale.Ĭontinuing to research, Marty remembered the picture of the blue whale taped next to the mirror in his sister’s room. He noticed an unusual pattern among drawings and journal entries, including a small sketch of a girl with a name beneath it in Russian.Īn internet search of the name turned up the story of Rina Palenkova, a 17-year-old girl who posted a “goodbye” selfie moments before committing suicide in Russia in November 2015. Special Agent Trebor Randle confirmed that this is the first case in Georgia, USA, potentially related to Blue Whale.ĬNN interviewed the family, who want to remain anonymous and explained that she was a “gifted artist, sister, daughter and friend”:Īlmost immediately, her devastated older brother, Marty, started going through her things to look for signs. The online game works by presenting the user with a daily task assigned by an administrator and the last task, set on the 50th and final day, encourages users to kill themselves.Īlthough the deaths have not been proven to be directly linked to the game, one family who lost their 16-year-old daughter in May found clues around her room that might suggest she was playing the game when she took her own life. It was back in early May when South African publications began warning parents of the possibility of the Blue Whale suicide game infiltrating the country.Īt the time, there were around 130 deaths worldwide that were potentially connected to the game, first uncovered in Russia in 2015.