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Lupe Fiasco Lasers Full Album Download
Hence, Lupe’s third album was being touted as the final piece in the Fiasco puzzle which would cement his place in Hip Hop folklore and possibly win him the full adulation he deserved. But label issues (which included an online petition being birthed) put his Lasers project on hold.
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2. Blow Your Mind (Ft. Maverick Sabre) // Download
3. Cold Blooded // Download
4. 50 Grand (Ft. Skepta) // Download
5. Corned Beef City // Download
6. Bitches // Download
7. Just Wanna Be Me // Download
8. Life (Ft. Harry James) // Download
9. Blue Skies // Download
10. Crack Baby (Ft. Tom Prior) // Download
11. Stay // Download
12. Castella Freestyle // Download
Food & Liquor peaked in the Top Ten and collected three Grammy nominations. The Cool, released the next calendar year, reached gold-sales status and earned four Grammy nominations. Despite the achievements and momentum, Lupe Fiasco -- a reluctant industry cog from the beginning -- encountered several snags and had to make substantial artistic compromises prior to having Atlantic allow the long-delayed release of his third album. Nothing on Lasers symbolizes this particular conflict between art and commerce like “The Show Goes On.” Lupe disassociated himself from the song and claimed he was told how to rap on it -- an edgeless, sanitized imitation of Kanye West's “All of the Lights” that, curiously enough, includes the line “They treat you like a slave, put chains all on your soul.” It became one of his biggest hits. Lasers offers more substance when the reins are loosened. On “Words I Never Said,” Lupe confronts fear-fueled alienation and, more pointedly, both sides of the political spectrum, following “Limbaugh is a racist/Glenn Beck is a racist” with “Gaza Strip was gettin’ bombed/Obama didn’t say shit.” “All Black Everything” is a sobering pro-black fantasy in which Lupe provides an alternate/“what if?” version of history: “And we ain’t get exploited/White man ain’t fear it, so he did not destroy it.” For all the concessions one can imagine Lupe making, it’s unquestionably the lumbering, overwrought choruses -- something that plagued The Cool as well. Here, they are at their most glaring on “Break the Chain” and “I Don’t Wanna Care Right Now,” two high-gloss, Europop-flavored productions that weigh down the album and dull the impact of the rhymes. If there is one MC whose rhymes should not be dulled for the sake of chasing pop trends, it’s Lupe Fiasco.
Lupe Fiasco Lasers Album Download
Sample | Title/Composer | Performer | Time | Stream |
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1 | 04:26 | |||
2 | Holly Brook / Alexander Grant / Wasalu Jaco | 04:16 | ||
3 | Khari Cain / Wasalu Jaco / Ricky Rutland / Khalil Walton | 03:23 | ||
4 | Jason 'Pooh Bear' Boyd / Jimmy Gannos / Wasalu Jaco / Dominic Jordan | 04:15 | ||
5 | Arden Altino / Jerry 'Wonda' Duplessis / Ronnie Jackson / Wasalu Jaco / Miykal Snoddy | 03:24 | ||
6 | Isaac Brock / Dustin William Brower / Jonathon Keith Brown / Dann Gallucci / Wasalu Jaco / Daniel Johnson / Eric Judy | 03:56 | ||
7 | Jason 'Pooh Bear' Boyd / Wasalu Jaco / David Manzoor | 04:01 | ||
8 | Jason 'Pooh Bear' Boyd / Wasalu Jaco / David Manzoor | 03:58 | ||
9 | 03:57 | |||
10 | 04:21 | |||
11 | Wizzo Buchanan / Sammy Fain / Wasalu Jaco / Irving Kahal | 03:40 | ||
12 | Arden Altino / Jerry 'Wonda' Duplessis / Wasalu Jaco / John Legend / Reginald Perry | 04:04 |