Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Music
Lupe Fiasco Whets Our Appetite With Mixtape of the Year Contender
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by Benjamin Sutton on
Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:54 AM
Over Thanksgiving weekend, while everyone was busy working in the kitchen, I was eagerly anticipating and then compulsively playing and re-paying
Lupe Fiasco's new mixtape,
Enemy of the State: A Love Story (
click here to download). At eleven tracks (including two skits) and just over 20 minutes, it's a short and very, very sweet affair, with Lupe going for broke over fairly major recent instrumentals (The Clipse's "Popular Demand"), underrated rap classics (Jay-Z's "So Ghetto") and more unconventional fodder (Radiohead's "The National Anthem"). The stand-out verse (on a mixtape full of excellent verses) comes when Lupe spits for two and a half minutes over Lil Wayne's "Fireman." Check it out after the jump.
First he rattles off this tirade: "Melt that change and make a ring/take that ring and make a bracelet/take that bracelet make a chain/look out for my necklace and/connect the chain up to a crane/pull the game up by the brain/could not move them just with brains/so I had to use some bling," and then in the space of a few bars he asserts "I am Patrick Swayze, you are Whoopi Goldberg," and calls himself "a black rap Zach Galifianakis." Enemy of the State: A Love Story comes ahead of Lupe's much-anticipated third album, Lasers, slated for an early 2010 release.
Tags: Lupe Fiasco, Lasers, mixtapes, hip-hop, rap, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, Audio
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