Lupe Fiasco - Lasers

[JakobR]

01 – Letting Go feat. Sarah Green
02 – Words I Never Said feat. Skylar Grey
03 – Till I Get There
04 – I Don’t Wanna Care Right Now feat. MDMA
05 – Out Of My Head feat. Trey Songz
06 – The Show Goes On
07 – Beautiful Lasers (Two Ways) feat. MDMA
08 – Coming Up feat. MDMA
09 – State Run Radio feat. Matt Mahaffey
10 – Break The Chain feat. Eric Turner & Sway
11 – All Black Everything
12 – Never Forget You feat. John Legend

[dad]

it blows

[JakobR]

Letting Go 7/10
Words I Never Said 10/10
Till I Get There 2/10
I Don't Wanna Care Right Now 6/10
Out Of My Head 5/10
The Show Goes On 6/10
Beautiful Lasers (2 Ways) 6/10
Coming Up 5/10
State Run Radio 8/10
Break The Chain 4/10
All Black Everything 9/10
Never Forget You 7/10

I really looked forward to this album after I heard the singles and one of the leaked tracks. Thought it was easily going to be one of the illest albums of the year but sadly this is let down by what Lupe Fiasco always has been against: Poor lyrics.

There are some great moments on the album though. “Words I Never Said” is a very deep song that applies to a lot of people out there (glad something like that will get a lot of airplay, thanks Lupe). “State Run Radio” is another quite cool track with an ironic and interesting message while “All Black Everything” is a nice political journey. “Never Forget You” is nice feel good track but maybe lacks some mind blowing overall message.

I’ve seen the album’s production get a lot of critisicm but I think it is nice. Really uplifting and modern sound… Maybe two bad beats but the rest of it is cool imo.

If it wasn’t for Lupe’s recent comments, I probably would have bought it just to get those few tracks I like and to support him (he shows glimpses of great lyricism after all) but after reading what was going on at the label, I feel I would support the industry rather than the actual artist.

[RynMur]

wack 2/5 at best

[CharlesJones]

LOL@Dad and Rynmur hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. I gave up on him after his first album and that wack album cover. He got skills but he's weird.