i dont think he wants that anymore. if he did he would just click up with ye (or p), start writng for him, get features, link with new producers, and make more industry records, etc.

instead he indie and get distro through a county music label. he's an artist in residence at MIT, does visual art, philanthropy and practices karate.

I agree that he wants to do more of the 2nd paragraph than the 1st these days. but to be fair, I thought he said he did reach out to Pharrell about CRS last year

Honestly CRS could really work right now even just trying to collab with the group in mind. If there’s ever been a better time than when it first started it’s probably now. I could see Lupe lighting a fire under Ye to really rap in this sort of context

Out now in NA

open.spotify.com/album/1a9BsR7Sco9wnBtBqVJWEv?si=vaq0hakvR4Wl0VfROMCdbg

Finally a release date, been waiting on this.

this like a more accessible and fun WAV Files

f*** with it

I like the color combination on this one better

I like the flows and rhyme schemes

Yooo

Is this on the album for sure?

Yep, track number 3

The man was really waiting for Kendrick to drop

This autoboto single is hard af

He coming for that GOAT list

Good single

between this song and all the loosies, Royce disses etc hes dropped the past year I rlly think this is the best hes ever been spitting

“My brother was a high-ranking gang member. I have friends that are Vice Lords, so I get it. But drill scares me because I know what happens at the end of that road: most of you are going to die. We need these drill rappers to live longer, because we need their intellect out in the world. Don’t throw away your lives or your talent by being forced into unsafe situations. As consumers, I believe we need to do a better job of telling them that.”

still going to 2005-2006 mixtapes and f&l leak + f&l. he's in a second prime for sure though. excited to see the public reception.

I can respect that for sure nigga just been rapping his ass off with a different kind of energy level lately, so ready for this album

In the past, he has been frank about his unhappiness with how he was treated by Atlantic Records, but since leaving the company he seems to have reached a more positive place of reflection. “Being on a major label allowed me to play to 40,000 people at Glastonbury. I travelled the world and brought those experiences back home with me. I just wish in those label meetings, where I felt degraded, that I’d shouted even louder.”

This is ass. No classic album would have this song on it… stop the cap 🧢

quotes from new interview

“I can take living in the ghetto, where there’s broken glass, prostitutes, empty lots and no prospects across a seven-mile radius, and make birthday cakes out of it!” says Chicago-born rapper Lupe Fiasco. “We take the least and make the most out of it . . . that’s what hip-hop’s sweet spot is.”

“I care about rap, but I don’t care anymore about the business side or selling records. I’ve always been a storyteller. When I was in the third grade, I wrote a play about a warring cat and mouse. I will be rapping right until the day I die.”

He mourns the loss of the city’s young drill artists FBG Duck and King Von, both murdered at 26 after their unapologetically macabre storytelling manifested into real-life tragedy. “Fame, all in the name of martyrdom,” Fiasco laments in one powerful new song.

“The structure and segregation of Chicago means you could go from a Gangster Disciples to a Black Disciples hood just by crossing the street. These gangs are killing each other, so how am I going to drive through their neighbourhoods playing drill music out the window that boasts about their friends’ murders?”

“My brother was a high-ranking gang member. I have friends that are Vice Lords, so I get it. But drill scares me because I know what happens at the end of that road: most of you are going to die. We need these drill rappers to live longer, because we need their intellect out in the world. Don’t throw away your lives or your talent by being forced into unsafe situations. As consumers, I believe we need to do a better job of telling them that.”

“Have you ever seen a nightclub when the lights are turned on? It’s f***ing gross. The paint is cheap, it’s sticky, the floor doesn’t match the walls. But in the darkness, you would never know any of this. It’s my job to shine that light and expose the dark side.”

In the past, he has been frank about his unhappiness with how he was treated by Atlantic Records, but since leaving the company he seems to have reached a more positive place of reflection. “Being on a major label allowed me to play to 40,000 people at Glastonbury. I travelled the world and brought those experiences back home with me. I just wish in those label meetings, where I felt degraded, that I’d shouted even louder.”

“We’re not basketball players, who have a limit to their bodies and taper off. Rappers only get more skilled as we get older, because we have more experiences to draw from . . . It isn’t about living for ever, ​​but living long enough to make a positive impact in the world that can’t be undone.”

Let’s hope not.