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{{quote|''"O ye tormented souls! My goal is to sit on the globe, like North Poles!"''|'''"Super" Lupe Fiasco''', "SLR"}}
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A year later, his sophomore effort ''[[Concept Album|The Cool]]'' told the story of three different characters: The Cool (aka Micheal Young History), The Streets (the female personification of addiction to the high life), and The Game, a manifestation of the perils of urban living. There are [[Continuity Nod|numerous references]] scattered throughout both albums.
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His third album, <s>Losers</s>''Lasers'', [[Development Hell|was shelved in 2008 by his label]] because [[Executive Meddling|they thought it wasn't "pop" enough]]. A combination of Lupe caving to pressure and rewriting some songs (something he has said [[Creator Backlash|will forever taint his own opinion of the album]]) and [[Internet Backlash|general fan outrage]] led to the record finally being released in 2011.
Atlantic has promised to keep their hands off of ''The Great American Rap Album'', and Lupe himself said it would appeal to some of his oldest fans. He also has an impressive arsenal of mixtapes that have become popular in their own right, notably the Fahrenheit 1/15 trilogy, and more recently Enemy of the State. Friend of the People, previously cancelled, was released on Thanksgiving 2011, like it was supposed the previous year, before he cancelled it due to people leaking his songs.
Funnily enough,the genre that his ''Friend of the People'' mixtape is classified under is "Unclassifiable."
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* ''Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor'' (2006)
* ''Lupe Fiasco's The Cool'' (2007)
* ''Lasers'' (2011)
* ''Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1'' (2012)
* ''Tetsuo & Youth'' (2015)
* ''Drogas Light'' (2017)
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* [[Alternative Rap]]
* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: Every line of ''Gotta Eat'' is a food puns while describing a drug dealer... or describes food using drug dealing puns... ''or'' it's a [[Take That]] against the fast food industry likening them to drug dealers... it's hard to say.
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** "With the habit of a hobbit makes it kinda hard to drop it"
** "I like [[Street Fighter]] too, I just really hate Zangief, only [[Ryu and Ken|Ken and Ryu]], I find it hard to beat Blanka..."
** In this [https://web.archive.org/web/20160213115048/http://a850.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/34/l_876504994476706867ff860793634ea9.jpg photo ] he's got a broken sword, a skateboard, magazines, a wee ninja, and on top of that is doing a very difficult looking stance on one foot.
** His part in Fort Minor's "Spray Paint and Ink Pens". While [[Wu-Tang Clan|Ghostface]] raps about street life, and [[Linkin Park|Mike Shinoda's]] verse is about a man committing suicide over the death of his wife, Lupe's is an epic sci-fi space drama about "the final saga in the Seven Planet Wars" that almost feels like an ode to the various [[Gundam]] animes.
* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: The Skater and his crew.
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** "Come! These are the tales of the Cool...guaranteed to go and make you fail from your school, and [[The Cake Is a Lie|seek unholy grails like a fool...]]
*** "Don't you know, that [[Big Bad|I]] run this place? That I've [[Chessmaster|begun this race]]? Must I RERUN THIS PACE? I'M the reason it's become this way..."
* [[What Could Have Been]]: After numerous features on each other's songs, Lupe along with Pharrell from N.E.R.D./The Neptunes and [[Kanye West]] were going to form a [[Supergroup]] called Child Rebel Soldiers or C.R.S. Unfortunately all that materialized were two songs and later Lupe announced that group was <s>permanently</s> on ice...[
** That song was recorded in 2008 according to Lupe.
** He and B.o.B. formed a massive super group that many fans thought were going to put Young Money in its place...they've done absolutely nothing, besides a remix to "I'm Beaming".
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