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Food & Liqour review from AHH.

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  • 25-09-2006 6:46pm
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    Orizio
    Registered Users Posts: 9,460 ✭✭✭


    Listening to it right now,heard about half the album.Good stuff,real energy in the beats.'I gotcha' is the weakest song I have heard so far,but its still one of the better Neptunes tracks I have heard this year.
    One leaked album don't stop the show. After Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor (1st & 15th/Atlantic) was made illegally available several months ago, fans reacted with strong opinions, both championing and ridiculing Chicago's next MC. Endorsed by Kanye West and Jay-Z (who executive produces), the skateboarding rapper now brings an album that combines nutritious lyrics with the numbing appeal of the mainstream. Revisions were made, as many feared that like actualy food and liquor, Lupe's arrival had grown stale in waiting.

    Vitamins have a long shelf-life. "Just Might Be OK" chronicles Lupe's rise to stardom, with lyrics and a chorus that still resonate to listeners battling any kind of oppression. The critics of Lupe's carbon-copy image to Pharrell will find affirmation in "Sunshine", a love ballad that has more lyrical substance than typically seen from Skateboard P, but utilizes a soundalike beat from Soundtrakk nonetheless. The actual Neptunes collaboration "I Gotcha" is a traffic jam of shorter, uninspired bars with a lackluster beat. However, "The Pressure", Lupe's collaboration with Jay-Z is the critical cosign that the bootleg lacked. Not unlike "Diamonds Are Forever", Jigga slides in to close an anthem of self-appreciation, a joining of the king with the prince of swagger. Perhaps the greatest reaction Lupe shows to the pitfall of the leak is "Kick, Push II". Under a different beat, Lupe recycles his chorus with a new connotation, which not only proves to be a fresh spin, but an inflammatorily street answer to those skeptical of the skater theme.

    http://www.allhiphop.com/reviews/?ID=961


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