Lupe Fiasco

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Through the coolest nigga
“What if’s”, ballin’ in my budget
Budgin’ ain’t in my ballin’
Nudgin’ ain’t in my nuggets (haaahhhh)
Too mean, too mean, no chicken in my luggage
But Michigan Ave. jazz drumstick is in the bucket (haaaahhhh, haahhh)
Riveter
Proceed like abortion clinic picketer
Or don’t heed a no-seed deliverer
Or through-the-glass face-mask on the visitor
And to perform get a lil’ horn like a newborn unicorn
Listener!
It’s like miles on a horse
5,280 styles for the source
Get compiled in reports
Then redacted into blackness
Then filed in the court for a trial for divorce!
Wow!
We’re like miles from the aisle they had walked
From the vows they had smiled now the child wanna fourth
Foul as magnificent black mall crowds
Watchin’ the black male drummer pail I was tellin’ you before
Sail ‘em to the shore just to sell ‘em to be sure
Intelligent as hell when I tell it to the sure
Sell it to the Shell you should come and buy a shirt
I be sellin’ them on tour (tour, tour, tour)
Now there’s something to be said about a trumpet to the head
A drummer for the hands needs somethin’ for the legs
Hmm… Let’s call it runaway slaveships
Fried chickens tasteless
And watermelons racist
Nigga!

The Chicago born Wasalu Muhammad Jaco first tasted success when he featured on Kanye West’s hit “Touch the Sky”, a track that shortly preceded his real breakout, his 2006 debut album Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor, and he never looked back. He has established himself as one of the greatest urban wordsmiths of all time, with Genius even dubbing him the ‘Proust of Rap’.

While he’s now regarded of one of the 21st Century’s Hip-Hop greats, he wasn’t always a fan of the genre, initially disliking it due to the prominence of vulgarity and misogyny within it. In his late teens, he aspired to make it as a lyricist. In his early twenty’s, he met Jay-Z, who helped him sign with Atlantic Records in 2005. The following year, he released his debut album (Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor), which was met with acclaim from fans and critics alike, as did his sophomore effort, Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool.

The following eight years of his career saw far less output than many would’ve anticipated. This can be partly attributed to his struggles with Atlantic Records. The executives wanted him to sign a 360 deal; however, as he refused to do so they instead shelved his already completed 3rd album, Lasers, and wouldn’t promote him as they had previously. The overseers at the label also interfered with his music (as they had tried to do with his fan-favorite track “Dumb it Down”); subsequently effecting the quality and sound of his third and fourth albums.

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