Lupe Fiasco Completes Transition to Radio Star on “Angels & Stars” (Listen & Download)

To start off, this is not an article accusing Lupe Fiasco of selling out, or even criticizing him for doing a record like "Angels & Stars. (And I'm absolutely not interested in opening up the "Lasers" debate again".) Instead, I'm far more interested in the fact that I heard Lupe on the obviously radio-aimed "Angels & Stars" and didn't blink.

It would have been insane to think this even a couple years ago, but now Lupe Fiasco is suddenly a perfectly reasonable answer whenever an artists asks "what rapper should I get for my rock/rap crossover record?" (Plus it helps that Lupe owed Eric Turner a favor for "Break the Chain".) He may not yet be in the same lane as Tinie Tempah, but he's got his blinker on and he's merging.

Anyway, I don't dig this, but it's not Lupe's fault. His opening verse is fine, it's Turner's melodramatic inspirational rocker guy posturing I can't stand.

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