Lupe Fiasco Is Smart, Knows It, And Tells Us About It
Nah Right’s got a new Lupe Fiasco track from the upcoming The Cool, which Eskay assures us is “not the first single.” Probably a good idea since it’s only half-successful at best–Lupe working the same mock-’em-by-imitating-their-shtick angle as the Roots on “Don’t Say Nuthin'” or maybe a more considered, polysyllabic version of that inane, one-note “Read A Book” track that’s causing a non-flap this week–with a trunk-slam beat and a synthisizer drone (liberal arts snap music?), absolutely no hook, and a naysaying chorus that advises Lupe to “dumb it down” so he’ll pop in the streets/bang in the clubs/get more than blog love with Lupe “flatly refusing,” patting himself and everyone who downloaded the song on the back. But c’mon, Talib Kweli’s at No. 2 only a few weeks after Common went to No. 1: Maybe not-dumbing-it-down is currently selling enough that the everyone can let the defensiveness slip for a while.
Lupe Fiasco – Dumb It Down [Nah Right]
