Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor
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Track List: Food & Liquor
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- Intro
- Real
- Just Might Be Ok
- Kick, Push
- I Gotcha
- The Instrumental
- He Say She Say
- Sunshine
- Daydreamin'
- The cool
- Hurt Me Soul
- Pressure
- American Terrorist
- The Emperor's Soundtrack
- Kick, Push II
- Outro
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Album Details: Food & Liquor
- Release Date:
- 09/19/2006
- Label:
- Atlantic / Wea
- UPC:
- 075678395925
User Reviews: Food & Liquor
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... AGAINST THE ODDS ...
, April 27, 2007Reviewer: Sam - See all Sam's reviews -
Finally, A Rapper Who Cares About His Fans
, December 27, 2006Reviewer: interstella@sbcglobal.net - See all interstella@sbcglobal.net's reviewsPros: Lupe Fiasco rocks!
Cons: none, this album is A+!
Finally, a rapper who's not about publicity or sells ghetto shoes. On this album, my favorite song is "I Gotcha" because his flowing shows creativity, passion and reality as we see everyday. Lupe Fiasco is a household name that'll be around for a long time. There's not a bad bone in his body or rap. I think there are a few controversial rappers who'll get stomped by this guy's killer style and individuality.
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Pro Reviews: Food & Liquor
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews A few years in the making, Lupe Fiasco's Food and Liquor follows a fruitless association with Epic (as a member of da Pak), an aborted solo deal with Arista (which yielded one promo single), a handful of guest appearances (tha Rayne's "Kiss Me," Kanye West's "Touch the Sky"), and a leak of an unfinished version of the album that set the official release back to September 2006. Still only 25 years old, Fiasco a Chicagoan of Islamic faith who owns a number of black belts sounds wise beyond his age, rarely raises his voice, projects different emotions with slight inflections, and is confident enough to openly admit his inspirations while building on them. It Was Written is his touchstone, and there are traces of numerous MCs in his rhymes, from Intelligent Hoodlum and Ed O.G. to Nas and JayZ. Pharrell (aka Skate Board P) might've considered suffocating himself out of envy with his Bathing Ape sweatshirt when he first heard the album's lead single, "Kick, Push," dubbed a skaterap classic well before Food and Liquor hit shelves. Like nothing else in the mainstream or underground, its subject matter skater boy meets skater girl and appealing early'90s throwback production finally broke the doors down for Fiasco's solo career. Wisely enough, Fiasco doesn't turn the skating thing into a gimmick and excels at spinning varying narratives over a mostly strong set of productions from 1st 15th affiliates Soundtrakk and Prolyfic, as well as the Neptunes, West, Needlz, and Mike Shinoda. There are strings, smeary synthesized textures, and dramatic keyboard vamps galore templates that befit heartbreaking tales like "He Say She Say" and casually deepthinking reflections like "Hurt Me Soul," where the MC confronts some of his conflicting emotions: "I had a ghetto boy boppa/JayZ boycott/'Cause he said that he never prayed to God, he prayed to Gotti/I'm thinking golly, God, guard me from the ungodly/But by my 30th watchin' of Streets Is Watching, I was back to givin' props again/And that was botherin'/'Bout as comfortable as a untouchable touching you." Deserving of as much consideration as the other highprofile debuts of the past few years, up to and including The College Dropout, Food and Liquor just might be the steadiest and most compelling rap album of 2006. - Andy Kellman, All Music Guide |
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Lupe Fiasco Biography
Chicagobased Muslim MC Lupe Fiasco began rapping in junior high school and joined a group called Da Pak several years later. The group signed to Epic, released one single, and split up, all before Fiasco reached the age of 20. Thanks in part to the v...Full Lupe Fiasco Biography
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Pros: ... Unmatched Lyrical Density ...
Cons: ... Leaked Album Hurt Playlist ...
... This album is my favorite Hip-Hop Album of 2006 ... Actually, with one leaked album, and this studio production, this artist is now my favorite Hip-Hop artist PERIOD. [His raw energy gives him an edge on Common] ...
, Ghetto Story", and "A Hustlaz Song" ... These are now delegated to the realm of underground-classics ...
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... I have never heard an artist with so much lyrical depth; I am still deciphering metaphors, laughing at imagery, subdued by deep connections and floored with homonym-use ... This man is something like A GENIUS ... All the hits you may have heard on-air like "Kick-Push, I Gotcha, and Daydreamin'" are just the tip of this lyrical lancet ... Songs like "Just Might Be Okay" and "Pressure" really put his deft lyricism on display ...
... Unfortunately, the album leaked and many of the songs I was hoping to hear released, were never put on the album ... These include "The Alternate "Intro""
... This is still a very strong album that will stand the test of time; However, with the inclusion of a handful of leaked songs, especially the original "intro", this album may have come-in second on my list of top Hip-Hop albums: Right after Common's Resurrection ...