One can at least appreciate, or at least respect, a rapper capable of dropping an absolute stinger like 'But my tone was like a Afghani, killed without a home, blew that bitch up with a drone' like it's nothing. Don't expect to appreciate each method he uses to relay his viewpoints. Through this song, the MC covers behavioral programming, child sexual abuse, and Afghan civilian murders in a graphic manner. For the third single, 'Lamborghini Angels,' Fiasco is at his detailed and focused best, combining surreal imagery and grim non-fiction over a brilliantly tense beat from Mr. It's much more about delivering a message and provoking debate than replays. As with many of his songs, the lyrical value (clever, cerebral) is far greater than the musical value (sluggish, meandering). The order of the second and third nouns in the hook - 'Bitch bad/Woman good/Lady better/They misunderstood' - is one of its many debatable issues. On 'Bitch Bad,' Fiasco takes a characteristically authoritarian stance on misogyny. Pete Rock himself objected vehemently, and that conflict was resolved, but the beat is a bad match for the MC's angered, if piercingly focused and thoughtful, rhymes. Smooth's 'They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.),' considered by many hip-hop fans to be untouchable for its emotional relevance and classic stature. Lupe Fiasco (2006) Touch the Sky/25-Fear Fall. Lupe Fiasco (2006) Touch the Sky/24-The Pen and the Needlz. Lupe Fiasco (2006) Touch the Sky/23-What You Talkin Bout. Lupe Fiasco (2006) Touch the Sky/22-Southside. 'Around My Way (Freedom Ain't Free)' uses the indelible beat from Pete Rock & C.L. Lupe Fiasco (2006) Touch the Sky/21-Lupe Exclusive Sneakers Interlude.

Released only a year and a half after Lasers, the album was likely met with fewer label-related issues, but each one of its first three singles stirred up some controversy.

There's no obvious attempt to repeat earlier pop chart successes, and its introduction is indicative, similar to that of 2007's elaborately conceptual The Cool, with Fiasco's sister Ayesha Jaco contributing some more of her commanding poetry. As that album was in limbo, Fiasco began working on his confusingly titled fourth album, a 69-minute 'part one' of a sequel to his 2006 debut. For all the artist-label snags Lasers hit prior to its birth, the album topped the Billboard 200, while one of its singles, 'The Show Goes On,' became Lupe Fiasco's second Top Ten Hot 100 hit.

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