{"id":2447974,"date":"2019-08-26T01:19:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T07:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=876212"},"modified":"2019-08-26T01:19:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T07:19:47","slug":"hear-wale-celebrate-womens-equality-day-on-upbeat-single-bgm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/hear-wale-celebrate-womens-equality-day-on-upbeat-single-bgm\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Wale Celebrate Women\u2019s Equality Day on Upbeat Single \u2018BGM\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wale<\/a> has dropped a new single in honor of Women\u2019s Equality Day, which takes place August 26th. The track, \u201cBGM,\u201d highlights the success of specific women in pop culture, and advocates for equal pay.<\/p>\n

On the upbeat, soulful number Wale invokes Issa Rae and Taraj P. Henson, and celebrates Black Girl Magic (a.k.a. BGM). He raps, \u201cSometime it be really so hard for ya\/ White boy paid more same job as you\/ The least I can do is write a song\/ Then I\u2019ll \u2018Mawwwh\u2019 that part of you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s Equality Day has been held since 1973 in recognition of the 19th amendment\u2019s passage and urges a celebration of progress, as well as a commitment to equality regardless of gender. Wale has been promoting the track on Twitter, noting<\/a>, \u201cWow I can\u2019t wait till NBC let me perform BGM on SNL. I\u2019m manifesting my future.\u201d<\/p>\n

The rapper will drop his next album this fall via Warner Bros, his first for the record label. Earlier this year Wale released \u201cOn Chill,\u201d<\/a> a new single featuring Jeremih and produced by L.T. mOE and VA. Wale also recently announced a fall headline tour, which kicks off September 30th at Revolution Live in Fort Lauderdale, FL and ends at Neumos in Seattle on October 28th. Tickets are on sale<\/a> now.<\/p>\n

Wale Tour Dates<\/h4>\n

Monday  September 30 \u2013 Fort Lauderdale, FL \u2013 Revolution Live<\/p>\n

Tuesday October 1 \u2013 Orlando, FL \u2013 Celine<\/p>\n

Thursday October 3 \u2013 Raleigh, NC- The Ritz<\/p>\n

Friday October 4 \u2013 Atlanta, GA- Center Stage<\/p>\n

Monday October 7- Asheville, NC- Orange Peel<\/p>\n

Tuesday October 8 \u2013 Charlottesville, VA \u2013 Spring Pavilion<\/p>\n

Wednesday October 9 \u2013 Silver Spring, MD- The Fillmore<\/p>\n

Thursday October 10 \u2013 Philadelphia, PA- TLA<\/p>\n

Saturday October 12 \u2013 Queens, NY- Rolling Loud Festival New York<\/p>\n

Monday October 14 \u2013 Boston MA, Paradise Rock Club<\/p>\n

Wednesday October 16 \u2013 Louisville, KY- Mercury Ballroom<\/p>\n

Thursday October 17 \u2013 Chicago, IL- Concord (Subject to change)<\/p>\n

Friday October 18 \u2013 Detroit, MI- El Club<\/p>\n

Monday October 21 \u2013 Boulder, CO- Fox Theater<\/p>\n

Wednesday October 23 \u2013 Reno, NV- Virginia Street Brewhouse<\/p>\n

Thursday October 24 \u2013 San Francisco, CA- Mezzanine<\/p>\n

Saturday October 26 \u2013 Portland, OR- Hawthorne Theater<\/p>\n

Monday October 28 \u2013 Seattle, WA- Neumos<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wale has dropped a new single in honor of Women\u2019s Equality Day, which takes place August 26th. The track, \u201cBGM,\u201d highlights the success of specific women in pop culture, and advocates for equal pay. On the upbeat, soulful number Wale invokes Issa Rae and Taraj P. Henson, and celebrates Black Girl Magic (a.k.a. BGM). He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 19:52:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}