Food & Liquor (Colored 2xLP)

Food & Liquor (Colored 2xLP)There was no other rapper like Lupe Fiasco making this much of a splash in the mainstream in 2006. Here was this bookish kid from the hood who could rap circles around Jay Z and had the gall to pose with trinkets a Wee Ninja doll, a Nintendo DS, a copy of the Quran, a copy of his first Fahrenheit 1 15 mixtape, a toy robot on the cover for his debut. He may have been an anachronism in his time, but looking back, its easy to see how he laid the

There was no other rapper like Lupe Fiasco making this much of a splash in the mainstream in 2006. Here was this bookish kid from the ’hood who could rap circles around Jay-Z and had the gall to pose with trinkets — a Wee Ninja doll, a Nintendo DS, a copy of the Quran, a copy of his first Fahrenheit 1/15 mixtape, a toy robot — on the cover for his debut. He may have been an anachronism in his time, but looking back, it’s easy to see how he laid the groundwork for other high-minded emcees with crossover potential.

There’s moments of brilliance packed into every Lupe Fiasco album, but the equilibrium of Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor has been difficult for him to recreate. To this day, it remains the most potent and well-balanced of Lupe’s work, a case of the corner boy and the scholar living in an otherworldly talented rapper’s brain working in perfect harmony.

Tracklist:
A1. Intro 
A2. Real 
A3. Just Might Be Ok 
A4. Kick, Push 
B1. I Gotcha
B2. The Instrumental
B3. He Say She Say
B4. Sunshine 
B5. Daydreamin'
C1. The Cool 
C2. Hurt Me Soul 
C3. Pressure 
C4. American Terrorist
D1. The Emperor's Soundtrack 
D2. Kick, Push II 
D3. Outro