Wale performing in 2010. (Photograph by Francis Chung)

Just like DCist editors, Wale takes no days off. Sorry, that’s #nodaysoff, per the rapper’s sometimes overactive Twitter stream. And last night, the DMV scene’s lodestar popped up on Conan to perform “Lotus Flower Bomb,” a single off last year’s album Ambition.

The performance is as good as one needs to be on a late-night talk show, which is, to say, adequate. Joined by Miguel, who croons the sweet-nothings interludes, Wale turned in a serviceable rendition. It was not, to modify another one of his favorite hashtags, a #classictvappearance.

Then again, Ambition wasn’t really that classic of an album, going by Andrew Noz’s smart treatise on the rapper in the City Paper last year. But “Lotus Flower Bomb” was one of the better tracks. Of the Valentine’s Day-appropriate song, Noz wrote:

There’s plenty of other stuff to like on the album, of course. Wale’s summer hit “That Way” makes a welcome enough return—it was previously released on the Maybach compilation and the Eleven One Eleven mixtape—as the new record’s final song. He also extends the track’s romantic motif to “Lotus Flower Bomb” and the more aggressive “Illest Bitch.” His continued and reasonably effective mining of this terrain—the oft-dreaded for da ladies rap— might account for a large part of his recent success. He writes women well, and seems to write to women well.

Watch Wale and Miguel try to get Conan O’Brien and his audience in the mood for love: