Lupe sounds awfully CuDi-esque on this track that will actually be on Lasers (but is still unfinished).
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DOWNLOAD: Lupe Fiasco – What U Want | Mediafire
BONUS: Lupe Fiasco – Proceed [Unreleased]
*anticipates C&D from Atlantic’s crackpot team in 5, 4, 3, 2…*
Ahh… after a full day’s worth of moving into this new apartment, I’ve finally got some time to catch up. Anyways, despite some misinformed folks trying to play y’all and state that this is a Lasers leak; it’s actually a song that’s almost a decade old. Originally recorded back in 2001 for Lu’ Arista debut that never saw the light of day.
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DOWNLOAD: Lupe Fiasco – Lean (The Buchannans) | Mediafire
Footage of Lupe Fiasco’s recent show that went down at The Shrine in Chicago.
In case you weren’t tired of Lupe’s Toca Tuesdays appearance, here’s visuals of his freestyle. Props to Alex.
Lupe sits down with MTV to talk about how their Hottest MCs list was what inspired him to go forward with Enemy of the State. He also said that the project was done in two days.
Kept it short. I felt, if you’re nice, you don’t need an hour. You don’t need one hour and 35 minutes. You don’t need 100 freestyles every week. You need a nice demonstration of what you’re capable of doing very effectively, and you step back. Leave you wanting more. Sometimes the best part of the movie is the trailer.
Amen to the statement above. And I’ve got to say, it feels great to see MTV using the artwork I created to replace the original. Niiiice.
Lupe brought out H-Town legend Trae Tha Truth during his performance @ the Sprite Step Off event yesterday. (Audio quality starts to suck around the 1:50 mark but it is what it is…) – Sean
Check out his freestyle over “Say Something” down bottom.
Earlier today, Mek posted Lupe’s performance of I’m Beaming at The Shrine in Chicago. Now here is some footage (via RubyHornet) of that as well as Kick, Push and Paris, Tokyo. And after I click publish, I expect 2dbz to be shut down in 5, 4, 3, 2… I mean it is a horrible thing to promote your artists for FREE, right Atlantic?
PREVIOUS: Lupe x Friend Of The People (Video)
Another Percival video so soon? Why the fuck not. This time he’s performing his “leaked” song for the first time live at The Shrine in Chicago, IL. Hit GWHH for photos of the entire thing.
“I was plotting on doing the follow-up to that,” Lupe said. “Simply because [Enemy of the State] was short. And I felt like it was space to do another one. I was gonna do another one called Friend to the People, but I started to get wind that people had songs they shouldn’t have had. I was like, ‘This is just gonna open the floodgates if I come out with another record. I know these dudes are threatening to leak records and do crazy stuff.’ Sometimes I feel there may be too much Lupe music out there — whether it be old stuff or new stuff or freestyles. I don’t want to have a ton of music sitting out. I made the decision to fall back from it and really focus on the climb. We were a couple of weeks away from doing that.”
The climb he referred to was his recent Mount Kilimanjaro trek. There was also another Lupe mixtape that DJ Absolute was supposed to be putting out.
“With this Absolute tape, I had to tell him straight up, ‘We homeboys, and you got all this old music, but it ain’t time right now. It’s too much going on. It’s too many people with music they shouldn’t have, and I don’t want to get it clouded,’ ” said Lupe, who’s putting out his third LP, Lasers, this summer. The lead cut from the album, “I’m Beaming,” was recently leaked without Lupe’s consent. – MTV
Lupe’s blaming Internet hackers for leaking “I’m Beaming,” but when I as well as the rest of the NMC have an email from Atlantic Records themselves – the same fuckboys who keep trying to C&D people to death because they can’t control their hoes down there – sending us the track, it makes you wonder who’s really playing who here.
PREVIOUS: Lupe Fiasco – Hey Lupe [Snippet]
Degenerates, rejoice! Ol’ girl is still with Justin Timberlake though… “technically.”
Lupe Fiasco said there is no truth to the rumors that he and Jessica Biel are hooking up.
“With Jessica?” Lupe said with a smile Wednesday when asked if he was romantically involved with the “Valentine’s Day” actress. “No. She’s a very lovely person. I do consider her a friend. She’s very dope, [a] very capable young woman. Very smart. But we are not dating or romantically intertwined in any way. But she’s good peoples.” – MTV
PREVIOUS: Lupe On Bilbo Baggins (Video)
“I don’t want to be pointed out as supporting Bill O’Reilly in any way because he can be on the garbage sometimes. When you’re comparing certain areas in the U.S. that are predominantly African-American or Latino, it’s very easy to compare it to the Third World,” Lupe said. “Just in the amount of violence that’s there, the corruption that’s there, the gang activity that’s there. It’s prevalent and dominant in Haiti. The corruption of the local politicians, the abject, corporate exploitation that takes place there, loan sharking, all that stuff. I think you can make the comparison to a lot of places in the U.S. Oakland [California], Detroit. Detroit’s got abandoned buildings. On that note, he’s definitely not out of the ballpark. There’s a credible argument there. I agree with that in some aspects.” – MTV
Applaud ILL for this…
Part 1: Lupe talks submitting Lasers to the label, taking time between albums, the possibility of another album dropping 4th quarter and “I’m Beaming,” which is now officially the first single.
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Part 2: Lupe takes calls, talks the Music For Relief “Resurrection” charity song with Mike Shinoda and Kenna, and the Mt. Kilimanjaro climb for the Summit On The Summit.
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Part 3: Lupe does an OnDaSpot freestyle over Nas’ “Flyest Angels”, talks production and features on Lasers (The Neptunes, Danja, Soundtrakk, Kenna), wanting to do an entire album with Jay Electronica, and the possible overly-hyped CRS album.
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