A brief, incomplete recap of Lupe Fiasco's 2009: a stirring, live-band performance at the still hip-hop-phobic Coachella, a Hewlett Packard commercial that gets reprised as the last skit on this mixtape, unrelated plans to film with Matt Damon and climb Mount Kilimanjaro, an appearance on the Twilight soundtrack, and his influence manifesting explicitly in East Coast rhyme spitters Charles Hamilton and Wale as well as implicitly in L. A.'s jerkin' scene. Hell, planning to retire even before you release your first album got kinda big in 09, and Lupe was doing that before it got all trendy and shit. That's about as good a year a rapper can have while releasing almost no new music whatsoever. To cap it off? Actual music- albeit just 22 minutes of it, on this mixtape that popped up in the middle of December. Maybe that needed to happen: If Lupe embodies any aspect of post- Kanye hip-hop, it's using greater access to candor and transparency to prove himself more unlikeable with every statement he makes outside of the booth. A lot of times, it's been tough to remember that we were intrigued not because he rapped from the perspective of a cheeseburger, but rather because he simply rapped his ass off. But outside of a few blips- most notably, a RZA-styled, self-satisfied anthropomorphology of the United States tagged on to end of The National Anthem - Enemy of the State tends to steer towards the latter version of Lupe with often fantastic results. It's particularly true of The National Anthem : Though rappers have been sampling Radiohead since the glory days of Chino XL, for the most part, it's an olive branch to alternative nation, the easiest way to show how refined your taste in non-rap music is. Suffice to say the biggest compliment you can give is that Anthem bangs even if you've never heard one second of Kid A. It's crucial that Lupe raps with the beat as opposed to merely.
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Mixtapes › DJs › Unknown › View Mixtape Cover Score: 2,021 Login to vote! 2,151 Mixtape Votes 252,141 Mixtape Views Uploaded Tweet Download Play 01. Lupe Fiasco - Intro (0:44) Download Play 02. Lupe Fiasco - The National Anthem (3:25) Download Play 03. Lupe Fiasco - Turnt Up (1:59) Download Play 04. Lupe Fiasco - Yoga Flame (2:34) Download Play 05. Lupe Fiasco - Lazers (0:20) Download Play 06. Lupe Fiasco - Angels ( Remix) (3:11) Download Play 07. Lupe Fiasco - So Ghetto (1:16) Download Play 08. Lupe Fiasco - Say Somethin (2:47) Download Play 09. Lupe Fiasco - Thank You (1:54) Download Play 10. Lupe Fiasco - The One (1:30) Download Play 11. Lupe Fiasco - Popular Demand (2:00) Download Play 12. Lupe Fiasco - HP Skit (0:37) Showing 8 of 534 | Show All | Add Comment 2:06 AM April 1, 2016 gumgum via Mobile: Still that * 11:49 PM October 3, 2015 top8isgreat via Mobile: This * go harder than algorithms applying asterisks to over muh *ing curse words 9:00 PM December 1, 2013 Bromelo Jones said:this tape go the * hard 8:04 PM May 5, 2013 picassojoe21 said: If he had trap beats mix with his flow his score would of been a lot better 8:59 PM July 28, 2012 Mecca74 said: I rock wit lupe dah long wey just saw him speak dah realiest * I ever heard 2:28 AM April 12, 2012 Abe93 via Mobile: Lil gayne go suck on a pig * u lil faget 2:27 AM April 12, 2012 Abe93 via Mobile: Wtf nigga u the *rider like lil boy there that *rid every rapper u could think of 2:26 AM April 12, 2012 Abe93 via Mobile rider.
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