Drogas Wave is the seventh studio album by American hip hop recording artist Lupe Fiasco, released by 1st and 15th Productions and Thirty Tigers on September 21, 2018. This album is a follow-up to his 2017 album, Drogas Light.

In a 2018 Billboard interview, Fiasco revealed the main idea of the project:

It’s about a group of slaves on a slave ship on their way to Africa to the West Indies and they are thrown off the boat. But they didn’t die. They stayed alive and they lived under the sea. And they dedicated their lives to sinking slave ships -- so they became this super, underwater force against slavery. It’s like a super-deep story that I am building on different fronts. But that’s the main idea and the source material for the album.

In a 2018 Complex interview, Fiasco said:

Drogas Wave is based on a story about a group of slaves that jumped off a slave ship transporting them from Africa. The slaves did not drown, and instead somehow managed to live under the sea. They spent the rest of their underwater existence sinking slave ships. ‘Drogas’ is the Spanish word for d****. I made it an acronym which stands for ‘Don’t Ruin Us God Said’.

Track List
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Lupe Fiasco Drogas Wave

1. In the Event Of Typhoon
2. Drogas
3. Manilla
4. Gold vs. The Right Things To Do
5. Slave Ship (Interlude)
6. WAV Files
7. Down f. Nikki Jean
8. Haile Selassie f. Nikki Jean
9. Alan Forever f. Crystal Torres
10. He Helter Skelter (Interlude)
11. Stronger f. Nikki Jean
12. Sun God Sam & The California D*** Deals f. Nikki Jean

13. XO f. Troi Irons
14. Don’t Mess Up The Children (Interlude)
15. Jonylah Forever
16. Kingdom f. Damian Marley
17. Baba Kwesi (Interlude)
18. Imagine f. Simon Sayz & Crystal Torres
19. Stack That Cheese f. Nikki Jean
20. Cripple f. Elena Pinderhughes
21. King Nas
22. Quotations From Chairman Fred f. Nikki Jean & Bishop Edgar Jackson
23. Happy Timbuck2 Day
24. Mural Jr.

Under construction 🚧 more to come !

alan forever & jonylah forever <3

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zoom into Benin/Togo you'll see Kingdom of Judah.

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Great album
The length doesn’t even bother me

Personal classic for me was blown away by the concept and story telling through the poetry and art form of Hiphop .

Amazing!

classic

Favorite tracks? Mine are Jonylah Forever, Wav files, Haile Selassie, Manilla and gold vs the right thing to do

All I can listen straight thru, it’s like a movie playing in my mind.

But Sun God Sam hook is next level writing and melody

Amazing album. Shame lupe will never get the credit he deserves, this and tetsuo and youth are masterpieces

I still remember how fantastic the first listen of this album was...sure it’s been like over 200 times since I’ve bumped the album. Glad it lived up to its hype

Any other rapper released those albums and they would be legends .

Beautiful album with incredible imagery and timeless themes/verses

Fish is my friends and the whales is my homies
Octopuses my people, the shrimp, they all know me
The sharks is my niggas, the dolphins is with us
The crabs is my comrades, the seahorse be holdin' us down
Jellyfish, they just be rollin' around
Lobsters is cool, they are not food
They're part of the crew
And that mean they're down
And that mean they're down

So damn good, one of the best albums from last year

Gotta relisten one these days it's been a minute

Amazing thread

Shipwreck with us
Grab vessels, bring 'em down to the depths with us
Take ahold of the bow where the G's are
And The Brigantine Sanderson and La Amistad
And the Henry of London and Elizabeth Fanny Butler
And the Hector, and the Creed
And the Baratoga and the Martha
Lauren, and the the Caroline and the Britney, and the Comet
Alabama and the Wonderer, Henrietta Marie
The Molly, the Sloop, the Molican, the Boa Morte and the River Volta
The Lordboard, the Elisee, the Eagle, the Agent Coker and the Colorado
Tar Tar, Morgan, The Mizer
The Pangas and The Mary Baugh and The Surf (Surf, Surf)
Williamsbury and The Liverpool
The Marquis O' Grady, the Inbus, the Ferris, the Leons, the Navigator, and the Phoenix
Claytor, Muhgel, Dragon, Gray Way, Ruby
Caroline, Bark, and The Tiger Nanny of Carlington, Pinnace Swallow
The Green Dragon and The Charles
The Abel Aide, The Monn Tavern and The Slan
Hannibal of London, Jeffery, Little Feet, Mediterranean
Li Anelia, the Solomon
And the Tyre, Kaff, the Mersey, the Inbe and the Little Napoleon
Rainbow Enterprise, The Katherine, Bristol, the Kambia, The Ann
The Adelaide Brookes and the Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord 🙏🏿

Top 3 of 2018. Such an amazing album.

Sun God Sam is top 5 Lupe
Quotations From Chairman Fred top 5 Lupe

Sht has no replay value at all

literally the exact opposite

Which side are you on?
Am I getting warmer? Cause I can't hold on
Are you close to me? Sunset so long
And can you call me? Cause I lost my phone
Should I wait for you? Or should I go home?
I can’t function, these d**** are too strong
I'm seeing stars now, but I'm still unknown
Out here alone, sunset so long, so long

S*** sounds like a continuation of T&Y, Lupe needs to stop with this style of rap

Beautiful Album from first to last song

Alan Forever (feat. Crystal Torres)

“Alan Forever,” he imagines the fictional future of the deceased Alan Kurdi.

Kurdi drowned at just three years old while traveling by boat from Turkey to Greece with his family. The Kurdi family intended to head to Canada with the assistance of smugglers, but their raft capsized in the waves and Alan, his brother, and mother all died. The image of Kurdi’s body taken by Nilüfer Demir is seen as a grim and heart-wrenching depiction of Europe’s migrant crisis.

Lupe imagines a future for Kurdi where he is an Olympic-level swimmer:

Now entering that Canadian Olympic swimming team
And those medals are just glistening, so gold
So cold, yeah
And Alan did the most, all those world records he broke
That’s why his nickname is the lifeguard and my God is he dope