TAG: Lupe Fiasco

Jan04

Lupe Sues Internet

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Well, not really. But he's still mad at the dub-dub-dub, according to an MTV News report, and has even exiled himself from the global village in all its great expanse. But the process in which Lupe Fiasco plans to record his sophomore album, tentatively titled The Cool, is truly the interesting factoid from the recent report.

“The timing is gonna be pop, pop, pop,” Lupe told MTV News. “There's gonna be a lot of setup and a lot of preproduction on this album, so it's gonna be in pieces. But the pieces won't come together, seriously, until like three weeks before it comes out. We'll probably record everything in, like, a week. So we're just gonna get it all together, map it out, have it done to a T, and then go and …

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Jan02

Talib Kweli album is free

No one hates an internet leak more than an indie rapper. Lupe Fiasco through a damn fit when Food and Liquor sneaked out, and the new El-P promo went so far as to digitally insert the name of the editor it was sent to right where everyone can hear it (nothing like a little shame to keep you right). So why is Talib Kweli making the album he just finished with Madlib, Liberation, avilable as a free ZIP file? Who cares?! It's free Talib.

The real answer off of Talib's Myspace page:

Happy New Year! Liberation is here! Shout out to my brother Mad Lib, for being so creative and inspirational, and for giving me a canvas to paint on. This project was inspired by his consistency, it was something I wanted to be a part of. In this …

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