Lupe Fiasco - The Cool
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Free Music Review: Solid Cd
Hit: 4 Stars
The Cool isn't great by any means, but it's not bad. The main problem I have with it is that only a handful of songs really stick out to me, which are superstar, go go gadget flow, high defition, and hip hop just saved my life. The rest are all kind of generic and sound like each other too much. However, they're still all pretty good songs. The beats are all pretty catchy and Lupe is a really talented rapper. I'm hoping with his next cd he can really live up to his potential, which I think is limitless.Free Music Review: Another Masterpiece
Hit: 5 Stars
Whoever wrote that this isn't an album that can be digested in one day was right on the money. Every song of Lupe's has to be played multiple times in order to be able to get everything out of it. He is a lyrical genius and the melodies of all his songs are beautiful. I could listen to him every day. There are other reviews which are much more thorough so I'll just sing my praises. Buy this album. Discover Lupe. He'll renew your faith in music.Free Music Review: Lupe brought it AGAIN!!!!!!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
THE BEST SONGS ON THIS GREAT ALBUM IS....
1. BABA SAYS COOL FOR THOUGHT
2. GO GO GADGET FLOW
3. INTRUDER ALERT
4. THE COOLEST
5. PARIS, TOKYO
6. HIP HOP SAVED MY LIFE
7. LITTLE WEAPON
da whole entire album was great (besides "hello/goodbye") but that song is ok as well just my least favorite. whoever liked the first album "FOOD & LIQUOR" then you'd LOVE this album because its better than that one and that was a great album as well.
Free Music Review: Superb. A Masterpiece.
Hit: 5 Stars
Now, I don't listen to much hip hop. I LOVE good hip hop, but I've found that, lately, there isn't much of it! I listen to a ton of electronic music, and have been listening since roughly 4 years old... I'm 27 now. I also produce music, so I know sounds, I understand what it took to make this all fit - a divine hand?
In a word, this album is brilliant! Dense, lush, vibrant, and COOL! I find myself seeing psychedelic images of rainy, dark streets lit by neon green dollar signs and rose colored halogen street lamps outside the hottest, hippest new club in a mythical Chi-town with a line a mile long. Aviator shades, gold chains, and styles so new even God doesn't know about them yet. ;)
This album is a rush. It's actually viscerally exciting - it breathes intelligence, youth, and poise. It's a testament to the best of my generation finally coming of age. It causes colorful dreams. It's hard to leave alone. It's even harder to find fault with.
Again, this album is concentrated excellence. It's like Hip Hop Ultra(tm), now with 'Substance'!
Try it - if you have a brain and a love for music, you'll have a lot to sink your teeth into for a while. Enjoy!
Free Music Review: But I Sphinx Like Leon
Hit: 4 Stars
Last year in one of his first singles I Gotcha, Lupe Fiasco claimed he came to resurrect hip hop a couple months before Nas even claimed it was dead. All the pretentious types ate it up and declared that Lupe was everything short of the second coming. Then Food & Liquor was released to a resounding yawn. Making matters worse, Lupe infamously flubbed the lines to Electric Relaxation while paying tribute to A Tribe Called Quest during the 2007 Hip-Hop Honors only to blame it on not being familiar with Tribe despite seeming to be part of their backpack rapping lineage. He did get some points back for appearing in the Nickelback video for Rockstar.
The problem, though, with Food and Liquor, was mostly in the bland production. Lupe always had a wicked flow, stealing Kanye West's Touch the Sky from him, that lacked the profanities, gunplay, and misogynistic lyrics that have made rap a bore this decade. But things looked up when Dumb it Down released earlier this summer with its sparse, Drop it Like it Hot type synth and base drum simplicity which was a better beat than anything on his debut.
And there are plenty of other great beats for Lupe to tackle throughout Lupe Fiasco's The Cool, mostly provided by Soundtrackk, like the opener Go Go Gadget Flow (not to be confused with Gnarls Barkley's Go Go Gadget Gospel) with its frantic strings that sounds like it was taken from a lost Dr. Dre album. The guitar laden Hello/Goodbye (Uncool), co-produced by Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda, is a nice diversion. Surprisingly the Patrick Stump (he of Fall Out Boy fame) produced Little Weapon works with Lupe taking on guns from those used by boy soldiers in foreign land to those used to knock over the cornerstone, gun down classmates and the ones we use in video games.
With most albums that go north of an hour (The Cool comes in at seventy-one minutes), there is some fat that should have been trimmed. Lupe should have gotten someone else to sing for Matthew Santos (not to be confused with the dude who succeeded President Bartlett on The West Wing but to be confused with another Chris Martin knock-off) on the three hooks he appears on. Snoop Dogg adds nothing to Hi-Definition. And Lupe name drops his next album LupEND about two too many times. And I'm not sure yet if Lupe shouting out the blog lupethefiasco.blogspot.com/ was brilliant or cheesy. But had this been his first album, maybe Lupe would have lived up to the hype he garnered last summer.