VOL № RH075 — November 2023
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There was no other rapper like Lupe Fiasco making this much of a splash in the mainstream in 2006. Here was this bookish kid from the ’hood who could rap circles around Jay-Z and had the gall to pose with trinkets — a Wee Ninja doll, a Nintendo DS, a copy of the Quran, a copy of his first Fahrenheit 1/15 mixtape, a toy robot — on the cover for his debut. He may have been an anachronism in his time, but looking back, it’s easy to see how he laid the groundwork for other high-minded emcees with crossover potential.
There’s moments of brilliance packed into every Lupe Fiasco album, but the equilibrium of Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor has been difficult for him to recreate. To this day, it remains the most potent and well-balanced of Lupe’s work, a case of the corner boy...
LP 1 / Side A
| 1 Intro |
| 2 Real |
| 3 Just Might Be Ok |
| 4 Kick‚ Push |
LP 1 / Side B
| 1 I Gotcha |
| 2 The Instrumental |
| 3 He Say She Say |
| 4 Sunshine |
| 5 Daydreamin' |
LP 2 / Side C
| 1 The Cool |
| 2 Hurt Me Soul |
| 3 Pressure |
| 4 American Terrorist |
LP 2 / Side D
| 1 The Emperor's Soundtrack |
| 2 Kick‚ Push II |
| 3 Outro |
