Lupe Fiasco has announced, via MTV, that he will be putting out a mixtape on Thanksgiving, the day that everyone will be sitting around the computer with nothing else to do besides waiting for a Lupe Fiasco mixtape, because there is absolutely nothing else happening on Thursday. He also has plans to put out an album on Dec. 25.
At any rate, in the same interview, Lupe claims that he will do three more LPs (he says We Are Lasers and its follow-up are in the can) and then retire, because by then, he'll have cemented his status as the best MC.
“The last six months, it’s been like, ‘I gotta really, really go out there and show that I’m nicer than all of them,’ ” Lupe said. “It’s like, ‘All right, so be it. If it takes three more albums to do it, then so be it.’ That’s what I got left with Atlantic. Three more after Lasers. I’m already done with two. The mixtape is coming Thanksgiving. It’ll be another mixtape after that and an album after that. It’s really to get that status and lock it in and [and have people] be like, ‘Look at this positive dude, the underdog. The positive one who came and murdered all these dudes. And he’s there, and he’s good.’"
Considering dude hasn't even released one classic album yet (though The Cool was very good), it would take three amazing albums for Lupe to surpass everyone, but hey, guy has always been big on bluster. [NahRight]
For an author for a music site, you surely don't respect real hip hop. Both of Lupe's LPs are sick. You say he hasn't released a classic? I and hundreds of others say that he's already released two!
Yeah, Lupe definitely hasn't released a classic yet. I really like both of his albums but neither is perfect or 'classic.' I do think he has it in him to do so, though.
Ahem... excuse me... Food & Liquor IS a classic album. It CAN stand up to Illmatic (Ready to Die isn't really saying much in my opinion, but no, that doesn't detract from the credibility of this statement), especially when viewed and judged based on it's relevance to the times in which it was released. It's commentary was as socially conscious as Illmatic, albeit much more carefully crafted in relation to the language mechanics and linguistic techniques employed. It truly is a modern classic, and on terms of content and substance, not even your favorite surviving pioneer or next closest thing has scratched Lupe's surface in the course of this decade.
There's a difference between modern classic and true classic though. I mean, sure Food & Liquor beats So Far Gone every day of the week, but against real hip-hop classics? No way.
Yeah, you make a good point. F&L is definitely more of a modern classic that definitely doesn't hold up in a true classic/timeless sense. Too many cheap beats on there for me. And I played it to death.
November 26, 2009 at 11:35 a.m.
Worm
the lupe mixtape... http://moneyisthemotive.com/?p=1366
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For an author for a music site, you surely don't respect real hip hop. Both of Lupe's LPs are sick. You say he hasn't released a classic? I and hundreds of others say that he's already released two!