#19 ‘Fire’ – Lupe Fiasco
December 12, 2009Ok, so this is the first of my ‘cheat’ entries – in that obviously Lupe’s Lasers album comes out in 2010 – but this was leaked quite a few months ago, and there needs to be Lupe presence here given his insane mixtape (see further – The National Anthem) that dropped a couple of weeks back. It’s also out of respect for one of the genuinely forward-thinking rappers out there at the moment, who embraces rock, jazz and leftfield beats for inspiration. With Fire the results are as respectful as they are unpredictable – and so i stole it for our Street | Talk series trailer 
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Kinda odd you don’t see more Hendrix tracks getting mashed-up like this. A trip to Mr. Fiasco’s MySpace blog could give a clue to how this track came about – in the blurb for his Solar Midnight contribution to the Twilight soundtrack (i digress for a second, but PLEASE watch this!) he claims it “comes straight from my die hard fanhood of Red Hot Chili Peppers and Anthony Keidis, one of my FAVORITE RAPPERS.” RHCP, incidentally, did a rather wonderful cover of Fire themselves on their Mother’s Milk album. Awaiting Lasers with uber-fanboy excitement.
