Lupe Fiasco

"I go by the name of.. LUPE FIASCO..."

my new found idol...
Lupe Fiasco...
another guy from chi..
despite his weird and cheesy name (lupe fiasco? whadahell r u thinking?), all i can find about him everywhere is only praises and success..
setela ngedengerin albumnya dia yg highly acclaimed "Food and Liquor", i felt amazed..
beneran.. percaya deh.. keren banget...
(bahkan kalo menurut gw he exceeded Mr. Kanye West who actually bring him to the map)
don't even remember when was the last time i listen to a hip-hop artist and felt like i'm listening not only great tunes tapi juga solid story...
stiap lagunya emang berasa banget kaya satu cerita yg penuh dengan smart wordplay..
not just a bunch of stupid punchlines like what those artists sing these days...

some of the critics said "he's bringin lyricsm back to the game".. (he definitely is)
only 25 years old, Fiasco sounds wise beyond his age..
on every single track, he rhymes about different subjects filled with details..
from common stuffs to his deep view about some specific things..

I don't get caught up in the stuff where nobody can understand me..
Sometimes I just make "dumb" records, because it's better to have a record where you're just telling a story, just describing a situation..
You ain't trying to put in crazy metaphors, trying to be the punch-line king every two bars...
It's like, I actually go in and let the record direct it...
It might be some complex lyrical junk, it might be a regular story record. It might be some dumbed down, whatever..
--- LUPE FIASCO

mirip-mirip Jay-Z waktu pertama kali kluar wit his way of rhymin, but without all that hustlin' shit..
yep!! kalo lo mau tau hip-hop artist yang bener2 bener bersih liriknya.. ya dia ini salah satunya..
even, he stated ini one of his song, 'Hurt Me Soul',

"I used to hate hip-hop... yup, because the women degraded..
But Too $hort made me laugh, like a hypocrite I played it
A hypocrite I stated, though I only recited half
Omittin the word "bitch," cursin I wouldn't say it..."

yep.. that's him and his image being a proud moslem..
kapan lagi coba lo dengerin album hip-hop yang diawali dengan 'bismillahirahmanirahim'....
he even did a flipped out version of Kanye's 'Jesus Walks' from a moslems perspective, judulnya 'Muhammad Walks'...
mungkin itu bagian dari gimmicks-nya dia? but who cares.. he does have skill...

Labels: reviews

posted by lushtea @ 10/28/2006