Lupe Fiasco - The Cool

[oDoUoSoKo]

shit is cool, full review tommorow.

[PoisonousDarT36]

really looking forward to this but i will not dl. waiting till the 18th to buy it.

[Kong]

good album so far. refreshing with all that bullshit coming out.

[Exodus]

I thought it was a very slight step below Food & Liquor, but still a great album... a lot of heat on here

his experimentations with his flow worked out well

The production was solid throughout for the most part, the only weak spots being Hi-Definition and Gold Watch

But really the only real problems I have with this album were that the guest rappers outside of Gemini/Gemstones sucked and the hooks that Lupe performed himself also sucked

I'll post an expanded review later, but for now -

1) Baba Says Cool for Thought - *
2) Free Chilly - *
3) Go Go Gadget Flow - 8/10
4) The Coolest - 8.5/10
5) Superstar - 10/10
6) Paris, Tokyo - 10/10
7) Hi-Definition - 4/10
8) Gold Watch - 6/10
9) Hip Hop Saved My Life - 8.5/10
10) Intruder Alert - 10/10
11) Streets on Fire - 10/10
12) Little Weapon - 7/10
13) Gotta Eat - 8/10
14) Dumb It Down - 8/10
15) Hello/Goodbye (Uncool) - 7.5/10
16) The Die - 9.5/10
17) Put You On Game - 10/10
18) Fighters - 9/10
19) Go Baby - 8.5/10

BEST TRACKS: The Die; Put You On Game; Superstar; Paris, Tokyo
SKIP: Gold Watch; Hi-Definition

[oDoUoSoKo]

SSKIIIP GOOLD WATCH?????? WTF? thats one of my favs...anyway

this album is extremely impressive...so many tracks and only one skipable...fighter...

favs...Gold Watch, Superstar, Streets on fire, little weapon, and put u on game...im bumpin this shit all weekend..peace.

[oDoUoSoKo]

btw, does everyone know the concept of the album? awesome to me.

[Thworldisyours]

SSKIIIP GOOLD WATCH?????? WTF? thats one of my favs...anyway

this album is extremely impressive...so many tracks and only one skipable...fighter...

favs...Gold Watch, Superstar, Streets on fire, little weapon, and put u on game...im bumpin this shit all weekend..peace.

Yeah, I love Gold Watch... (Anybody know the sample???) And the Snoop collab aint bad either...

Played the album a couple times and it gets better with each listen... On a whole it might be better than the RETAIL version of his first... It's NOT better than the Food and Liquor bootleg tho...

Put You On Game and Dumb It Down are probably the two best songs of the album (maybe of the year)... The only track I've been skipping a lot is Intruder Alert... The whole vibe and mood of the song just puts me to sleep... Besides that, it's a damn good sophomore release... Might be one of the best albums of a busy year in hiphop...

[J-Cee]

I got this today and am really enjoying it.
Smoked a Joint and listened to it blew me away..specially Streets on Fire when i was Blazed as.Smoke or even dont smoke and listen to it..
Dope

[Esquire]

Damn sweet album fo sho.

[Mantra]

Classic for sure.

[PoisonousDarT36]

Classic for sure.

lol its not even out yet and its a classic already? whats it been leaked for 5 days? give it some time

[DR. NICK RIVIERA]

it's already better than BDR, 8Diagrams, Death the Human Dance, Offering, both H.R. albums, American Gangster and many more

up there with Sick Jacken & El-P with the best album...


the album feels like Lupe is making even a bigger statement than Nas did with HHID...like this HHID how it should've been....

[oDoUoSoKo]

lupe coulda done a hip hop is dead...too easy...he made one song...Dumb it down.

[rainbow]

im liking it a lot.

Lupe does clever things without sounding pretentious.

[djskillz]

I'm amazed by this album. Only songs I skip are The Die and sometimes Gold Watch. Good album so far.