{"id":307,"date":"2010-04-27T05:43:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T05:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=307"},"modified":"2010-04-28T17:51:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T17:51:21","slug":"lupe-yorke-dont-erase-the-fiasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2010-04\/lupe-yorke-dont-erase-the-fiasco\/","title":{"rendered":"Lupe Yorke&#8211;Don&#8217;t Erase the Fiasco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"hypImageNext\"> <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"userImage\" src=\"http:\/\/c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com\/images01\/75\/l_4504a19a5a82c0e9b9972e2a1fad7128.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>We alluded previously to Lupe Fiasco, and he remains our favorite current American rapper.\u00a0 Lupe Fiasco?\u00a0 Well, it&#8217;s a tad catchier than his given name:\u00a0 Wasalu Muhammad Jaco (though following the bank meltdown, we think WaMu Fiasco would have been far more appropriate).\u00a0 Regardless, Fiasco brings urgency and literacy to a genre forever plagued by misogynistic, one-upsman, gangsta ridiculousness (Put &#8217;em on the glass, indeed&#8211;jeesh).\u00a0 Fiasco ain&#8217;t perfect (but is compared to others who succumb even on this track), and as stated previously, we&#8217;ll generally throw on K&#8217; Naan and Nneka first, but his wordplay is comparatively breath&#8217;s fresh air, and when riding on top of Thom Yorke&#8217;s <em>Eraser<\/em> track, the combination compels completely.<\/p>\n<p>Lupe leads off this track by Child Rebel Soldier (CRS) super-hip-hop group, and is followed by Kanye and Pharrell Williams.<\/p>\n<p>All the money in the world don&#8217;t make it painless.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t let it erase you.<\/p>\n<p>Check out CRS&#8217;s <em>US Placers <\/em>(found on Fiasco&#8217;s &#8220;Follow the Leader&#8221; record and Kanye&#8217;s &#8220;Can&#8217;t Tell Me Nothing&#8221; record)<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lupe-Fiasco-f.-Kanye-West-Pharrell-US-Placers.mp3|titles=Lupe Fiasco f. Kanye West, Pharrell &#8211; US Placers]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We alluded previously to Lupe Fiasco, and he remains our favorite current American rapper.\u00a0 Lupe Fiasco?\u00a0 Well, it&#8217;s a tad catchier than his given name:\u00a0 Wasalu Muhammad Jaco (though following the bank meltdown, we think WaMu Fiasco would have been far more appropriate).\u00a0 Regardless, Fiasco brings urgency and literacy to a genre forever plagued by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}