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{{quote|''"O ye tormented souls! My goal is to sit on the globe, like North Poles!"''|'''"Super" Lupe Fiasco''', "SLR"}}

One of the ~~best~~ ~~and still relatively new~~ [[Hip Hop]] artists out there, [[Lupe Fiasco]] (real name Wasalu Muhammad Jaco) ~~has been called a breath of fresh air into what is becoming an overly commercialized genre. By [[Jay Z]], [[Irony|no less]]. His~~ first early success came when he appeared on [[Kanye West]]'s "Touch the Sky". Not long after that, his debut album ''Food & Liquor'' dropped and the lead single "Kick, Push", a homage to skateboarding [[Dual-Meaning Chorus|among other things]], started to reveal the talent the young rapper had. The album was critically acclaimed and got him three Grammy nods.

One of the more unique [[Hip Hop]] artists out there, [[Lupe Fiasco]] (real name '''Wasalu Muhammad Jaco''')'s first early success came when he appeared on [[Kanye West]]'s "Touch the Sky". Not long after that, his debut album ''Food & Liquor'' dropped and the lead single "Kick, Push", a homage to skateboarding [[Dual-Meaning Chorus|among other things]], started to reveal the talent the young rapper had. The album was critically acclaimed and got him three Grammy nods.

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.

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."

Funnily enough,the genre that his ''Friend of the People'' mixtape is classified under is "Unclassifiable."

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* [[Alternative Rap]]

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