Tag Archives: Lupe Fiasco

Shuffle Songs, Vol. 8 — All of That Shuffling is Making Me Sick

There are a number of reasons why I may have woken up this morning feeling sick…The late-night walk in the rain I took yesterday could have been a factor. There’s the chance that I could have come into contact with that “stomach bug” I’ve seen everybody on the internets griping about for the last […]

Shuffle Songs, Vol. 5 — Rappity-Rap Edition

If you shuffle the letters in the word “rap” you really only come up with “par,” a Golf term, and “Arp,” an old-school brand of synthesizer. I think there are even fewer anagram options if you use the term “hip-hop.” But that’s neither here nor there because today’s “shuffle” special is an all […]

Time Has Come Today

Obviously getting older is cause for a bit of introspection. For some it might even be a source of panic, worry or depression. For others it’s simply a passage of time. For me it’s an across-the-board experience, but the chronology of my experiences has always been important to me. During my relatively short […]

The Audacity of Hope

My friends and I ascribe to a little known doctrine called “The Dreadlock Theory” which states that any rapper who rose to prominence while sporting dreadlocks will, should they ever cut their locks, lose their artistic vigor. It’s far from scientific, and I won’t name any names, but an examination of the history of […]

The Cool, the Buff, the Dark and the One With Glasses

Another one of my favorite acts, Queens, New York emcee Cool Calm Pete, dropped a new sort-of single earlier this week. It’s a laid-back dedication to Summertime indiscretions with the fairer sex set to a soulfully dilatory trot of a beat a catchy vocal sample called “Gitty Up Baby” and is available as a […]