lupe’s freestyle over m83′s “midnight city” is the “unofficial #OWS anthem,” and this bear can BEARLY bring himself to care. no but seriously, i wish lupe would ease off the militant politics and just become culturally conscious like he was on the cool.
-grizzly
i’m gonna use this platform to mention how terrible lupe fiasco’s new mixtape was. i just want him making soulful/inspiring shit like we heard on the cool. trash the freestyles over electro-beats.
-grizzly
even though AT part II hasn’t exactly been released, we’re getting a part III deep into this december weekend. if you recognize the track, that’s because it was the best song on the drive soundtrack.
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lupe fiasco – american terrorist III
-grizzly
lupe fiasco does a video for a reaaaaallllly bad song on LASERS – probably in the bottom 3 lupe songs of all time. all of which happened to be on lasers.
*whistles*
-grizzly
lupe fiasco drops his long overdue mixtape, friend of the people: i fight evil. i have yet to listen, but judging from the tracklist, this should be very interesting to say the least. great way to top off thanksgiving.
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- panda
the r&b crooner from lupe fiasco’s first and fifteen crew (and the artist formerly known as pooh bear) releases a high corn-syrupy single for his upcoming project, and enlists lupe to boost the star power.
-grizzly
remember when lupe was supposed to put out “friend of the people” a few months after the release of enemy of the state? well, it’s a couple years late, but it’ll be dropping on thanksgiving. this is a weird way to introduce it, as he hops on the bassnectar remix of ellie goulding’s “lights” for a heavy dose of untz untz and wub wub to spit his latest bars.
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lupe fiasco – lightwork f. ellie goulding and bassnectar
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gonna go ahead and say it. dmx and swizz’ medley of old school hits was easily the best performance. performances from lupe fiasco, jeezy/ti (his first public performance since jail), big sean and wale can be seen below the jump.
-grizzly
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haven’t heard from lupe much, outside of his music videos and what not from the underwhelming LASERS. here is with two new (but very old) bonus tracks from his 5th anniversary re-release edition of the classic food & liquor. lupe’s probably real mad about these tracks right now.
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-grizzly
i feel embarrassed. nikki jean’s album, pennies in a jar, drops today via itunes. this kinda sucks, because i haven’t been keeping up with this fine woman’s progress, nor did i know she would have this incredibly stacked and stellar song, featuring two of the best emcees around.
pennies in a jar is on itunes now.
download:
nikki jean – million star motel [f. lupe fiasco & black thought]
-grizzly
i can say with great confidence that 1. lupe fiasco had nothing to do with this generic shit storm of a music video or 2. lupe fiasco dipped into that integrity BIG TIME.
huge ‘smh’ at this.
-grizzly
this is a real pleasant surprise, isn’t it? stump’s getting ready to release soul punk, but first is his homage to chicago with none other than lupe fiasco.
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patrick stump – my city f. lupe fiasco
-grizzly
lu’s performance from the MTV MA’s last night. excellent performance, as is to be expected from the lasers camp.
-grizzly
always the entertainer, colbert brings on wasulu for a quick 5 minute interview and a performance of “words i never said,” which can be seen below the jump. oh, and skylar gray still sucks. evanescence wasn’t cool, and neither is whatever the fuck she’s doing.
-grizzly
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well, i expected a strong statement from mr. fiasco with this one, and the video definitely delivers. a powerful visual to accompany a powerful track that says a bunch of shit he probably shouldn’t have. overall, i wish i enjoyed the actual song more, but skylar gray’s hook is both cliched, cheesy and honestly, annoying as hell. lupe’s in true form though, seeing red on every single verse.
-grizzly
as lupe rides out the success of lasers, he stopped by the letterman studios to perform his now hit single on national tv with sarah green.
-grizzly
so remember when the word was going around that lupe had both “nothing on you” and “airplanes” and passed em down to b.o.b.? well, we now have a CDQ version of the latter. i might be biased, but i feel like lu should kept this for himself. i could definitely see this album on lasers. even though i initially liked bobby’s version (before hearing it ad nauseum), i feel like this is a lot less “oh my god fame is le suxxxx” and a lot more along the lines of what i like.
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lupe fiasco – airplanes f. hayley williams [original version]
-grizzly
i’m not gonna lie, this mtv series is tight. here’s lupe’s take on his life as an adolescent.
-grizzly
you mean to tell me that lupe let go of an archived album track himself? maybe the tides are shifting. this one, while unfinished, is still a pretty cool collaboration from the ‘past my shades’ crew. lupe wanted a third verse from janelle monae, but that never came to fruition. that’ll do, lu.
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lupe fiasco – who are you now [f. b.o.b.]
-grizzly
obviously, this should’ve made the album. it leaked prior, maybe even as much as a year back, but lupe was pissed because it wasn’t finished. here we have the completely finished version with a kenna guest spot to boot.
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lupe fiasco – what u want f. kenna
-grizzly
all dope everything. lupe gets his own walmart soundcheck special; one of the least likely candidates to have a great internet video series. aside from a full performance (setlist: shining down, i don’t wanna care, go go gadget, hip-hop saved my life, beautiful lasers and superstar) you get a pretty great interview.
oh and the performance is full-on lupe. band and everything.
stream the whole thing at walmart’s site.
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lupe fiasco – walmart soundcheck [full performance + interview]
-grizzly
here’s a short video following lupe around on the day of LASERS’ release in his hometown of chicago. as an added bonus, a b-side/cut from the lasers arsenal has surfaced on the internet, and features eric turner, the guy who did the hook on “break the chain.” although this song is much, much better.
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-grizzly
tavis is easily one of the best journalists working right now. thorough research and an earnest eat always makes for great interviews, and he shows this through a 20+ minute interview with the man of the week, lupe fiasco. for the record, lupe’s on track to do 200k+ for lasers’ opening week. clap for em.
-grizzly
So, after a long wait for fans and Lupe Fiascos alike, we finally have LASERS. There’s a lot of background to this release, some of which was touched on in the review. But for the most part, I’m happy for Lupe for a number of reasons, regardless of how good or bad this album would’ve been. There were a lot of bullshit moves on Atlantic Record’s part, and I really hope he either gets dropped (I’m sure he wants that) and gets to do whatever he wants from here on out, or Atlantic allows him to do whatever he wants with Food & Liquor II.
Either way, the review for LASERS is below the jump. And the album’s in stores. Go pick it up.
-grizzly
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two HUGE leaks from barker’s upcoming album, which is dropping next week. i had no clue the record was dropping so soon, but if there are high quality songs like this (clipse and lupe both go crazy on their respective cuts), then i’m on board.
…i still haven’t listened to the mixtape though.
download:
travis barker – city of dreams [f. the clipse and kobe]
travis barker – if you want to [f. pharrell and lupe fiasco]
-grizzly
