Lupe Fiasco: Lupe Fiasco's The Cool (Colored Vinyl) Vinyl 2LP Traktor music label: Self-Released 2009 /

music label: Self-Released 2009 / Templar Label Group 2013

but also incorporating contemplative

and extreme weather conditions that make Florida seem like a good idea but goddamit

and the off-kilter melodies and atmospheres he creates are brilliant

Lupe Fiasco: Lupe Fiasco's The Cool (Colored Vinyl) Vinyl 2LP Traktor music label: Self-Released 2009 /10th anniversary repress! Perhaps the best effort from Lupe Fiasco, Lupe Fiasco's The Cool is a loose concept album built off of a song from the Chicago mc's debut, Food & Liquor. Dude can rap, that's a given, and his bars come in various speeds, cadences, and moods. The usual sociopolitical themes aside (the LP introduces characters, the Game and the Streets), Lupe keys in on his storytelling ability, and there are darker moments throughout; The