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Lupe Fiasco f. Guitar Wayne - Fast Money
This guy has been off my radar as of late. I’ve seen a few things recently referring to an album scheduled for late 2009, but haven’t heard any music from it so far.
The last time I paid him any real attention was when T.I. and Jeezy absolutely MERKING the remix (<— the video is a mash-up) to his most successful single to date, Superstar, back in early 2008. Not that the song (and the album) didn’t stand up on it’s own (it absolutely did), but I damn near gave Tip the verse of the year nod in mid-January.
Anyhow, I was an early adopter - appreciating his guest spot on ‘Ye’s Touch The Sky, I dug deep and grabbed all the mixtapes I could find, and stayed true while he prepped his debut. Re-discovering them recently, I was reminded of the amount of fire this guy was dropping on the Fahrenheit 1/15 series.
Running through all 3 of them today, the concepts, beat selection, samples, and bars bars bars are super impressive. The above track is from the second one; it always puts a smile on my face to come upon a song or an album or an artist that I’d lost in the shuffle.
