Monday, October 12, 2009
Music
Improbably, Lupe Fiasco Keeps Getting Better
Posted
by Benjamin Sutton on
Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:16 PM
Bespectacled,
skinny jeans-wearing Chicago MC
Lupe Fiasco has abandoned
plans to make his third album an epic three-disc goodbye to the game—which, despite being a seductive idea, is probably a good thing—and the album that's coming out of the process sounds amazing so far. Though there's no firm release date for
Lasers yet (before the end of the year,
hopefully), the first single
"Shinning Down" with Matthew Santos was pretty spectacular. Now a new mixtape track that may turn out to be the second single off
Lasers, "Fire", has started making the rounds, and it's truly phenomenal, from the massive Hendrix sample to the breathless verses.
Don't miss the line about Eminem and Asher Roth ("If not the same then similar/like Asher and Mathers") and my favorite: "I used to rubber band/but now I got a bungee/if you'll let me expand/that refers to the money." Here's hoping the whole record is this good.
Tags: hip-hop, rap, Lupe Fiasco, Lasers, new song, Audio
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