Lupe Fiasco Wants Us to “Go to Sleep”

Posted by Nathan S. on 08/23/10 | Filed under Downloads, Lupe Fiasco

Remember the other week when RefinedHype nation was deep in a discussion about how while Lupe Fiasco is one of the best lyricists alive, he doesn't seem capable of running his career? Yeah, nothing's changed. Not only did he officially start pushing out his new song "Go to Sleep" on Saturday morning - which in the music industry is unheard of, you know, because everyone in the music industry is asleep and hungover on Saturday morning - but he's apparently switching focus from the oft-delayed "Lasers" onto a new album called "Food & Liquor 2: The Great American Rap Album", which also doesn't have a release date. Um....ok, then.

Still, we hear so little new Lupe I'm going to try not to complain (too much). The beat, from enigmatically named producer 1500 or Nothin, crafts an Ambien-soaked beat that Lupe responds to with equally sleep verses that, once again, show the man's got some of the best pen games in the business: "Stationed in Antartica, the coldest nigga alive / know it's Armageddon...before you drive you gotta wipe locusts off your eyes / but I'm warmin up, oceans is on the rise." Goddamn Lupe, why can't we get more of this?

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Wallabee Kingpin	Dope dope dope dope dope. I'm still waiting for that up-beat song from Lu though, he's been dropping a lot of mid-tempo to slowed down records lately. Still dope!
	Posted on Aug 23, 2010

nick13g	Finally more LUPPEEE... come on lupe drop an album..! anytime before x-mas
	Posted on Aug 24, 2010

FeelNopaIn	Reminds me of the cool. Good song. I'm still pissed off about the fact that lupe is kind of becoming the brett favre of hip hop. Anyways looking forward to his upcoming projects.
	Posted on Aug 24, 2010

tdotraza	Correction: Go To Sleep came out, both radio rips and CDQ, on Friday afternoon. Why did no one (blogs wise, a lot of DJs/radio shows were on it) post it outside of Illroots? I honestly haven't a clue, but I'm sure the Lupe vs. Shake situation influenced that at least a bit.
	Posted on Aug 24, 2010

Nathan S.

Quick correction to tdotrazza: While "Go to Sleep" may have leaked on Friday, it wasn't officially promoted until Saturday morning. I know, I got the email blast from Atlantic. And yes, Lupe goes after blogs with cease and desist orders more often than any other artist I can think of, so the links above may not last long.

Not that it really matters. The point is, when Lupe decides to really put in the energy he's obviously capable of still making dope music. Now we only need to get him to do it more often.

Posted on Aug 24, 2010