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Lupe Fiasco
Tetsuo & Youth
Last Project: Food & Liquor 2, 2012
1st & 15th Entertainment
Lupe Fiasco‘s last couple years have been…tumultuous. Â Since 2009, when his controversial Lasers album debuted #1 on Billboard, the extremely talented lyricist has had his share of ups and downs. Â Musically, he’s been solid–his follow-up to Lasers, Food & Liquor 2, was nominated for a Grammy last year–but his anti-Obama rants, and unfortunate interactions with fans (and Chief Keef) both in person and over social media has left the jury out on the defiant rapper. Â This however, doesn’t take away from the fact that Lupe Fiasco puts everything he has in his music, which has made for gems such as “Words I Never Said”, “Crack”, and “ITAL (Roses)”, and we have no doubt that will change for his upcoming LP, Tetsuo & Youth. Â Chris Brown is already rumored to be making contributions to the LP, and Fiasco just wrapped up his successful Tetsuo & Youth preview tour, during which he previewed new music (“Drizzy’s Law”), and surely made fans out of people that weren’t exactly Lupe enthusiasts. Â T&Y may be Lupe’s best work in a while, and with Common and Kanye also dropping later this year, it should be a fun one for Chicago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVnu7zi0daY
