Lupe hits gold and should be hitting diamond.

I walked into Target, asked the stock boy where can I get a copy of that Lupe Fiasco Album, "The cool." He said to me it is sold out and we will have more in at the end of the week. As he began to walk away and I followed suit. He shouted out to me, hey man, I know a mom and pop store you can pick up a copy. So in turn; I asked him where, he told me that I have to go into the heart of city and snatch up a copy. So I hoped into my car, drove for about 20 minutes. Once I arrived I ran in the store and shouted I need "The Cool". Once the store clerk realized I was not high or drunk, he asked what do I mean, I said it again. Then it dawned on him that I was asking for a copy of "The Cool," by Lupe Fiasco. He reached behind him, and plopped it on the counter. I quickly handed him my swipe, signed, and left the store ripping open the packaging, just to turn around say thank you to the clerk, and and asked if he would toss out the wrapping for me. He happily obliged.

Which leads me to tell you what has been going on with the music placed on that disc.The album has not stopped spinning since I purchased it. It reminds me when I bought my first copy of 'Slippery when wet,' by Bon Jovi, I just knew I had a classic on my hands, an album that is not about the day, but embodies the sounds of today. An album that will grow as you grow, one that is reminiscent of Hip Hop past, all the while visualizing Hip Hop of tomorrow. If Nas told Lupe one day, that Hip Hop was, dead, Lupe Quickly ran and earned a medical/science degree, and used the stem cells left behind, to bring it back as it was and better.

So I say all this to say, that Lupe Going gold is an honor, but I demand that it be known that it is not enough. It is obvious that Hip Hop Culture is dead, but Hip Hop is alive, fighting against this pseudo Hip Hop, that we call talent, and dome dress code that only shows one piece of what was offered in the first place. What it is at this point is regurgitated garbage, left over scraps of what was. Wanna be cool, wanna be Gangster, wanna-be Pimp Player. It is not about any one thing it is about what you make it, as long as it is real from the gut, and heart.

Lupe is a part of the saving grace of the music, forget the culture it is an illusion, the culture died way before Nas Spoke up. If I am wrong the culture is underground awaiting the mainstream pseudo Hip Hop, to annoy listeners enough before it reemerges victorious, once and for all time.

Lupe is Gold people, that is 500,000 plus smart people, 499,000 others apart from myself. Joined the movement of true music, these poser should not be making money. Long live true art.

Here is the first single off 'The Cool' - Dump It down.



I take it that many of those in generation of current day Hip Hop just do not utilize their minds for anything constructive. Such as the beauty of word play. True word play, not that I can add a slang to a slang, and nothing else wordplay. Get it together Hip Hop, or you will be commuting on the freeway to suicide.