Lupe fiasco enemy of the state rapidshare

Getting back to business, the Chicago MC provides a potent reminder of his sheer technical prowess on this brief yet rewarding mixtape. A brief, incomplete recap of Lupe Fiasco's a stirring, live-band performance at the still hip-hop-phobic Coachella, a Hewlett Packard commercial that gets reprised as the last skit on this mixtape, unrelated plans to film with Matt Damon and climb Mount Kilimanjaro, an appearance on the Twilight soundtrack, and his influence manifesting explicitly in East Coast rhyme spitters Charles Hamilton and Wale as well as implicitly in L.

Hell, planning to retire even before you release your first album got kinda big in 09, and Lupe was doing that before it got all trendy and shit. That's about as good a year a rapper can have while releasing almost no new music whatsoever. To cap it off?

Actual music-- albeit just 22 minutes of it, on this mixtape that popped up in the middle of December. Maybe that needed to happen: If Lupe embodies any aspect of post-Kanye hip-hop, it's using greater access to candor and transparency to prove himself more unlikeable with every statement he makes outside of the booth.

A lot of times, it's been tough to remember that we were intrigued not because he rapped from the perspective of a cheeseburger, but rather because he simply rapped his ass off. But outside of a few blips-- most notably, a RZA-styled, self-satisfied anthropomorphology of the United States tagged on to end of "The National Anthem"-- Enemy of the State tends to steer towards the latter version of Lupe with often fantastic results. It's particularly true of "The National Anthem": Though rappers have been sampling Radiohead since the glory days of Chino XL, for the most part, it's an olive branch to alternative nation, the easiest way to show how refined your taste in non-rap music is.

Suffice to say the biggest compliment you can give is that "Anthem" bangs even if you've never heard one second of Kid A. He became inspired to put it together by seeing our Hottest MCs in the Game list. Fiasco made the top 10 but was left off last year, chiefly because he didn't have any current material. It's like, 'That's cool. I been through this before. He made Enemy of the State in just 48 hours. I did it in two days," he detailed. I said, 'Let me go out here. Just the super 'I'm the best MC' — lyrical — there's wasn't really room for that on this album.

I was like, 'Let me give my fans that. Let me let them know that I'm still capable of that. Let me show MTV I'm hot too. I felt, if you're nice, you don't need an hour. You don't need one hour and 35 minutes. You don't need freestyles every week. You need a nice demonstration of what you're capable of doing very effectively, and you step back.

Leave you wanting more. Sometimes the best part of the movie is the trailer. It's certain records that fit an MC and what he does, and the instant you hear him, it starts to go. There's certain beats that don't do that. There's certain beats MCs shouldn't have. That's just me stuntin', sorry. I heard the track. I hadn't even heard Drake or [Timbaland's] song 'Say Something.

I just heard the beat and 'Say Something,' the freestyle came out. I could have kept going. I could have rapped over that for 20 minutes. I said, 'What?!? I hadn't heard the song, I heard the beat and said, 'I need to destroy this properly.

That's how I look at it.