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LUPE FIASCO - Food & Liquor
| AV Club |
| Considering how long hip-hop has dominated the pop charts and popular culture, it's remarkable how little thematic ground most of it has covered. But on his eagerly anticipated debut, Lupe Fiasco boldly goes where few, if any, rappers have gone before. On the album's best tracks, Fiasco masterfully melds his peerless storytelling gifts with his idiosyncratic passion for skateboarding, fantasy, and incisive sociopolitical commentary....full text |
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| HipHopDX |
| There comes a time when a change is in need. Amongst a persistently stale Hip Hop scene lies artists that want to “change the game” but aren’t embodying what it takes to be the change. Most end up trying to become their predecessors while others masquerade as the next big thing without understanding that the next big thing never needed to call his or herself that. ...full text |
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| CokeMachineGlow |
| The release of Lupe Fiasco’s debut record is an Event not because of “Touch the Sky,” nor a Jigga cameo, nor a shiny Neptunes beat. It’s not because Idlewild deserved the 66 I gave it, or because King wasn’t as good as T.I. needed it to be, or because Fishscale was a slipshod record elevated exclusively by its excitable star. The release of Food & Liquor is an Event for a reason nobody heretofore had expected. It’s an Event because it’s a Lupe Fiasco record, and -- get this -- that’s enough....full text |
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