Vote for the best music of 2009 in our Readers Poll right now!Įnemy of the State also features Lupe rapping over backbeats from Slaughterhouse, Timbaland and Clipse, who previously sampled Lupe’s “Dumb It Down” on their own Road to Til the Casket Drops mix tape. In 2005, Lupe appeared on the Kanye West track 'Touch The Sky' from Wests Late Registration.
During this time, rapper and mogul Jay-Z heard Lupe and assisted him in the production of what would become his début album Food & Liquor. This isn’t the first time Lupe has metered his cadence to the music of Yorke: Fiasco, along with fellow CRS members Kanye West and Pharrell, used the Radiohead frontman’s “The Eraser” as the sample for the rap supergroup’s “Us Placers,” a song Rolling Stone placed on our Top 100 Songs of 2007 list. In 2005, Lupe was featured on two tracks on Mike Shinodas solo mixtape titled Fort Minor: We Major. Grab a listen to the song, and the entire mixtape, over on Nah Right. Enemy, the precursor to Fiasco’s next album Lasers, finds Lupe taking on a pair of Jay-Z tracks, a Lil Wayne cut and, most notably, Radiohead’s Kid A song “The National Anthem.” With its menacing bassline and moments of hovering Ondes Martenot, Fiasco goes into full The Cool mode to keep pace with the unorthodox sample.
Lupe Fiasco celebrated Thanksgiving by unleashing his new mixtape Enemy of the State: A Love Story as a free download. We asked a number of our favorite artists which records and artists they most enjoyed in 2006, and the answers ranged from the expected, such as TV on the.
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