A deux c'est mieux

Jardin des Plantes, 2004

Cette semaine sera celle du hip hop ou ne sera pas, j'ai dit.
Lupe Fiasco est la nouvelle nouvelle sensation aux US. Poulain de Kanye West qui s'y connait en tubes et en marketing, il a un flow hallucinant, une voix un peu nasillarde, (déjà) une paire de reebok à son nom et la pochette de disque la plus moche de l'année.
Son album premier du nom, "Food & Liquor", a de la gueule, surtout grâce au tube Kick, Push et au duo avec Jill Scott sur Daydreamin', titre du jour.
Même quand on est pas très client des albums de la miss, faut admettre qu'elle a le talent de transformer tous les morceaux qu'elle fait en duo avec des rappeurs en petites merveilles (notamment I am music & 8 minutes to sunrise avec Common). Donc voilà.

Lupe Fiasco feat. Jill Scott - Daydreamin'

Always know brilliant ladies
We started the week with promising young people, let's keep up with it. It's a little different for today's featured rising star though, because he's already high up in the charts. And famous enough to have a pair of shoes with his name on. Not that having your own pair of shoes is a sign of true success, but at least it shows you've become a person of interest for shoemakers. Generally, shoes and success are linked. Writing it feels funny. Anyway, Lupe Fiasco is the new guy everyone's been talking about these past months, because 1/ he's a damn good rapper and 2/his godfather, Kanye West, has nothing to learn from the best music marketing people on earth. Even if the picture on the album cover is dreadful and if "Lupe Fiasco" is a name that suits more to a character from the Simpsons than to a rapper.
But the truth is, this guy is good, and this track with Jill Scott is amazing.