Lupe’s got a hit with this one. Lupe Fiasco‘s first single from the upcoming Lasers album is inspired by the melody from Modest Mouse‘s “Float On”. It sounds like the guitar was sampled, but the vocals are all reworked. I can see this getting major radio play.
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Nice. kid always comes with it. never knowing what the “it” will sound like, hit you with, came from…smooth regardless.
Extremely solid. Wasalu never disappoints. I have a feeling that it’s gonna be huge.
might be the load of applesauce I just ate, but the mixing levels feels a little too saturated with the guitar.
Nice to hear Lupe though!!! Can’t wait for this album
incredible. If this isn’t the anthem for life i don’t know what it is lol
lupe’s flow is on point, but i strongly dislike this song. I love lupe fiasco, but this feels like top 40 nonsense. wtf is that hook
this is crap. modest mouse should pull a satriani.
lupe fiasco is a piece of sellout trash. the fact that you post this without any regard to the original song is ridiculous. he stole modest mouse’s song basically and made it into radio shit. the fact that you say lupe has something with this one is the reason hip hop is dead.
sounds like a beat wiz would rap on… not Lupe
sounds like a beat wiz would rap on… not Lupe, and sounds as if he’s rapping to a young audience…. it’ll be a hit on radio disney
I’m digging it. Yeah it’s a little radio friendly, but it’s a first single, what do you expect?
@FuckLupe
“the fact that you post this without any regard to the original song is ridiculous. he stole modest mouse’s song basically and made it into radio shit.”
Because this is exactly like Float On, right? (He mentioned it in his post btw) It’s a sample bruh, chill out.
fuck a hater, its great to here lupe again.
I’m happy lupe’s back, and this song’s going to be huge no doubt. I just hope his rap on the whole album isn’t this simple (it won’t be).
i hope this is just something the label shoved down his throat. the verses sound good but are devoid of any sort of resonant meaning typical of his songs, and the hook is formulaic and tastelessly done. it’s COMPLETELY out of character for lupe
So this is the track Lupe was talking about when he said the labale kept telling him he needed a number 1 smash!
I think it’s ok but I’m not sure I can see Lupe crossing over any time soon!
First of all Fuck@FuckLupe for being an idiot
Second of all, this is obviously Lupe trying to please Atlantic to get Lasers out ASAP. This sort of reminds me of a K’Naan song or somethin… This obviously isn’t his best piece of work lyrically, but the beat is dope (and Con definitely made it clear it was a Float On sample) and he still comes with it…
Every artist is at some point going to have to do some different shit and if it comes across as Top 40 then big fucking deal. Jay has Top 40 hits, Kanye has Top 40 hits, TIP has Top 40 hits, fuck, even Gucci has Top 40 hits, and Chris Brown hits bitches in the Top 40.
If you don’t like hip hop, then skip all the hip hop songs that Con posts. It would make us hip hop fans much happier….
you can make hits without compromising artistic integrity (see: kanye, jay-z). lupe did that with “superstar” and “kick, push.” this hook sounds like every other piece of shit “let’s all get fucked up life is good” chorus making the rounds on the radio right now. lupe’s a muslim, he doesn’t even drink.
i feel like he’s almost acknowledging his own selling out with the first verse, or maybe these verses were on a beat that was actually made for lupe instead of mass appeal.
I love hip-hop and i love lupe. I frequently defend both but sometimes it’s hard when business is clearly taking precedent over the artist’s vision. thank god for kanye
First of all, I have bought his albums and supported the guy since kick, push. This is trash. Lupe has made top 40 hits before, such as kick push, hip hop saved my life and go go gadget flow, not to mention SUPERSTAR you moron. That’s a huge fucking song, and it was real rap. However if you’re a fan I assumed you’d know that. Lupe can make good rap music and has, and it has sold; he doesn’t need to reduce himself to poppy beats and stupid rhymes.
Also, sampling is fine and great songs have been made from samples. Juicy by B.I.G. (RIP) was a sample an old funk song, and is arguably the greatest rap song of all time. But Lupe took a song that everyone knows, and was a huge hit by a prominent band and changed a few words and the guitar a little? Cmon man that shit is whack he’s a way better artist than that.
Matt C knows whats up haha.
FuckLupe I was going to say the same thing to you, though it pains me to type your name (but I agree)
I think he might actually be taking shots at the label in the first verse, who else could he be talking about with these lines?:
“They treat you like a slave, with chains all on your soul,
and put whips up on your back,
they be lying through they teeth
hope you slip up off your path
I don’t switch up I just laugh
put my kicks up on they desk”
I think this song has more meaning in it than you think, definitely more than most radio hits.
Go read the lyrics: http://www.killerhiphop.com/lupe-fiasco-the-show-goes-on-lyrics/
That said, yes the beat and hook are clearly made for radio play. It was produced by Kane Beats (who produced Right Above It by Wayne and Drake). And sure the lyrics are more basic than Lupe’s average, but there’s nothing wrong with expanding your fanbase.
Fuck the haters, I like it. One Pop sounding song ain’t gonna hurt anyone, look out for the rest of Lasers.
TO MattC & FuckLupe…
you guys are retards.
1st like Caldizzo was saying this song has more meaning than you think if you actually listen to the lyrics…talking about you guys know real rap and Hip Hop…for FuckLupe being so mad about a God forbid a Hip Hop artist to use a well known rock bands song for a sample (this isn’t new you douches, where y’all been at again?…I guess not listening to Hip Hop from the past 30 years) u must be a fickle small minded Hip Hop fan that only digs Lupe cause he’s easier to reach the alternative rock fans. And Juicy used a popular Soul record added some drums and some snares but other than that stayed very close to the sample but this sample is worse cause it wasn’t altered enough???…FAIL. And Matt yeah he don’t drink but when in the song did he say they drinking in the chorus. they said something about dreamin…Also like a few cats said this is to appease those fools at Atlantic so he can finally get his album out…get over yourselves.
And again this is about as pop as Superstar, if you think not you need to listen harder.
Firstly, Matt C, are we really basing musical integrity on Jay-Z and Kanye? Sure no one is denying the talent there, but Jay-Z’s Blueprint III was widely criticised for being a corporate sell-out album that bore no resemblance to the hip-hop he gained acclaim for (Reasonable Doubt-The Black Album). And Kanye, while definitely talented as a producer and even artistic visionary, is an average rapper at best, not to mention the ridiculous over-use of auto-tune.
Secondly, Lupe’s first two albums won him wide-spread praise for his style and for the quality of his lyrics. While this might not follow in the same vein (although I suggest you listen to Caldizzo and read the lyrics or listen harder), every artist wants to sell albums, and the best way to do that is to send out a single that is catchy and entertaining, that will generate hype, gain air-time, and eventually boost album sales. This is not surprising. Every artist does it, be it Lupe, Jay-Z, Kanye, and all over the music world, for example The Verve with their 2008 Love is Noise was not necessarily a reflection of their musical ability, but it was clearly meant to generate buzz.
Frankly, Lupe’s track is decent. Not bad, not great, but a good track. There’s nothing wrong with it being radio-friendly.
First off fuck all the haters, Lupe has to get his shit out there in this era of commercial crap. Keep spitting Wasalu.
No there is nothing inherently wrong with being radio-friendly, but when you don’t seem to care that fails in being artistically significant, it is a disgrace.
And yes I am basing artistic integrity on Jay and the Louis Vitton Don. In the mainstream, i think them and outkast are really the only truly free artists because they have proven that their previously avant-garde styles were commercially viable. Blueprint 3 I agree was not a good album, but I think it was just a failed and uninspired album more than it was an attempt to gain mass appeal. Sure Empire State of Mind was huge, but I think it was just the best song on the album. It wasn’t a sellout at all. When they released it as a single the album had already been out and that song had already become extremely popular. If it was part of a corporate scheme, it was extremely ill prepared for.
Kanye West is an artist. That goes almost without debate and does not merit commentary. The sales are just a sign of the recognition of genius. He makes trends, he does not follows them.
Once a so called artist does such an act, they place profit before the artistic pursuit and their artistic integrity is destroyed. If you truly believed any of those names to be artists, you would not claim them to be seeking profit over artistic achievement.
is dope.
Lupe isn’t selling out, his last album(dope shit btw) first single was radio friendly just like this joint. just because he sampled modest mouse doesn’t make him a shitty artist. he probably has a deeper appreciation for their music than most of you angry commenters. his artistic abilities aren’t compromised either. it’s a good song, giving a positive message. calm. the. fuck. down. lolz.
Definitely more radio friendly than anything I’ve heard from Lupe, but glad he kept the lyrical content on point. If this is the track he had to make to get Atlantic to put a release date on his album, im not mad.
But in general, the production seems a bit unrefined. Just too much going on, too busy at times. Not as crisp as it should be, in my opinion.
People need to calm down a bit; this is startin to look like the comments section of a Kellee Maize post.
Also, take note that we(or most of us) know NOTHING about Lupe’s life. And thats where the music is comin from is it not?
Maybe he was feeling real good, maybe getting lasers out was more of a headache then we can imagine, or maybe it was something else. Let him celebrate with a little bit of a victory song. Its not like he’s got tpain singin on the chorus about bottles and models or something…
how do you make don’t look down last week and dont stop just afew weeks ago then come out with this shit. you need to get off of lupe’s dick faggots
Since its beginnings, hip hop has been as much about authenticity as its been about skill. “hip hop was invented in the late 1960s in the bronx, new york city.
I love how people write paragraphs.
Anyway, all this will do is popularize Modest Mouse, see it as “a way to gain mainstream popularity” for the band. They have dope music and what better way to show that than a popular hip-hop artist to sample a track. Same thing with Kanye, Aphex Twin and Blame Game, it will just get people curious and that is a good thing right?
just kidding, lupe blatantly copied the modest mouse by just changing some lyrics. I’m a huge fan of re-works but this is a bit much.
Blue Scholars remix was way better.
this is a blatant rip off. if ‘float on’ was sampled i would have no problem with it, but somebody please tell me where you can hear the original song in this garbage track. plenty of artists have made many a song over samples of big hits but this just proves that this idiot has no talent and just needs to rip people off
Just to the people that says it’s trash for stealing Modest Mouse’s song, I heard that he got permission from them. I was pissed at first too because Modest Mouse is a very respectable, and amazing group. They all agreed on it though.