Lupe Fiasco

B.o.B. spits a freestyle over the beat for Lupe Fiasco’s song “Hip-Hop Saved My Life”. If this is a freestyle, and I say that with a lot of hestitation now, it is pretty fluid with the story telling throughout. This song was one of my favorite off of The Cool album and B.o.B. tells his story of how hip-hop has saved his life. Lupe also made a good video for this with some H-town rappers in it, since the story he is telling is based there.

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Some unreleased Lupe to start your weekend off right. Lupe is the best lyricist in my opinion and this does not disappoint. You will have to rewind it again and again to even get everything Lupe is saying. It is more street than most of Lupe’s tracks but all the hardcore fans know he can throw those out once in a while too. I’m not sure where the guys at FakeShoreDrive get these gems but I hope they keep them coming!

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I leave you this hot track to start your weekend off right. This is an old unreleased Lupe and he absolutely kills it. It’s quality Lupe stuff for all of you fans out there who thought you had heard it all like I had. This is album worthy material, check it out!

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This is a cool, positive video promoting Obama. The lyrics are about our current situation in America and throughout the video there are clips of Obama speeches. Lupe put it best in the video when he said, “There’s so much happening, that it ain’t gone get fixed with singing and rapping, we gotta take action.” Well said my man.

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A nice little remix to get you through your day at work. Lupe is constantly telling people to go get a passport in this song and I agree. If more Americans had passports we would have a lot less problems in this country. With wars going on across the world and approximately only 20% of Americans owning passports, I would have to say no truer words have been spoken by Lupe. Americans need to get out and see other countries, you can’t call yourself the best if you’ve never seen your competition.

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