lasers

I remember seeing a live performance on youtube last year when Lupe Fiasco performed a snippet of this song and I remember getting really hyped for his forthcoming new album. Well unfortunately the track didn’t make Lasers and ended up on UK rapper Tinchy Stryder‘s album Third Strike. Until now we have had to make [...]

Photographer/filmmaker Steve-O has unleashed the third installment of his P.O.V. series, this time documenting Lupe Fiasco’s recent release show at Webster Hall, New York in support of his third album, Lasers. During the show, Lupe brought out John Legend to perform “Never Forget You”, produced by Jerry Wonda (Wyclef, Fugees) – watch below. [...]

“With this route, I think I handled myself very poorly. I allowed myself to get very depressed and go places I shouldn’t have gone,” Lupe Fiasco tells Tavis Smiley in a recent interview regarding the delayed and complicated release of his third and latest album, Lasers, acknowledging the conflict between musical creativity and the music [...]

Lupe Fiasco dropped in the Lopez Show last night to perform “The Show Goes On” from his album Lasers which is looking set to top the Billboard charts next week. Check out the performance below. [...]

Lupe Fiasco dropped into the 106 & Park studios last night on the promo run for his new album Lasers (read our review here) which is out now. After a quick interview he performed his single “The Show Goes On”. Check out the performance and interview below. “The Show Goes On” [...]

Mad respect to my boy Sway! The UK rhyme animal took to the stage at Lupe Fiasco‘s Lasers album release concert last night at Webster Hall in New York and after performing the Ishi produced “Break The Chain” with Lupe, Sway captivated the NY crowd with a dope freestyle. Look out for something major from [...]

Self proclaimed Hip Hop Head, Jimmy Fallon invited Lupe Fiasco to not only perform “The Show Goes On” on his show, but to also play a friendly game of Charades with actors Chris Pratt and the Oscar Award winning Kathy Bates, who some of you may remember from the classic film Misery. Host Jimmy Fallon joined Kathy [...]

Lupe Fiasco hit the Jimmy Fallon show last night for a special performance of his single “The Show Goes On” with The Roots. “The Show Goes On” is taken from his album Lasers which is out on March 8th. Read our review here. [...]

Is Lupe Fiasco on the verge of completing an almost-flawless hat trick of album releases? That’s what the die-hard fans of the Chicago MC may very well be thinking. In 2006, Mr Fiasco dropped the incredibly slept on Food & Liquor album, followed by the exceptional The Cool. Whilst commercially they didn’t make any waves, [...]

In the 1st part of Lupe Fiasco‘s interview with Rap-Up he speaks on his Lasers album, describing the sound of the album as being a “…Little bit more of a popular record”, going on to say that only about 4 or 5 songs made it to the final album from the initial recording phase of [...]