1011. Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor (2006)

Track Listing

1. Intro
2. Real Featuring Sarah Green for 1st & 15th Productions, Inc
3. Just Might Be OK Featuring Gemini for 1st & 15th Productions, Inc
4. Kick, Push
5. I Gotcha
6. Instrumental Featuring Jonah Matranga
7. He Say She Say Featuring Gemini and Sarah for 1st & 15th Productions,
8. Sunshine
9. Daydreamin' Featuring Jill Scott
10. Cool
11. Hurt Me Soul
12. Pressure Featuring Jay-Z
13. American Terrorist Featuring Matthew Santos
14. Emperor's Soundtracks
15. Kick, Push II
16. Outro

Review

One of the best debut hip-hop albums of the last years, Fiasco's Food & Liquor is exciting, fun and smart. Lupe has some great sampling and lyrics as well as some truly innovative music.

In a time where all good hip.hop things seem to be coming from the south Lupe shows us some great West Coast (Chicago) hip-hop, and gives us what will for a long time probably be the best skating hip-hop track with Kick, Push. A really catchy and quite brilliant track.

So finally a hip-hop album which harks back to an earlier time of great West Coast hip-hop and manages to do something new at the same time. I really like this and am definitely adding it to my iPod.

Track Highlights

1. Kick, Push
2. American Terrorist
3. Hurt me Soul
4. Daydremin'

Final Grade

9/10

Trivia

From Wikipedia:

The album features production from The Neptunes, Kanye West, Mike Shinoda, Craig Kallman, Prolyfic, Needlz, Soundtrakk, and Brandon Howard. Jay-Z, Chill, and Fiasco himself are credited as the executive producers for the album.

Kick, Push: