Lupe Fiasco's:The Cool Review

The over all quality and lyrical content of this album is probably the best out of all of Lupe Fiasco's other works. Lupe Fiasco is a twenty-five year old lyricist who grew up on the seedy West side of Chicago, Illinois, who was turned off by the negative messages West Coast rappers emitted throught their lyrics and decided to lean towards more positive ones that were being delivered by such artist as Nas and Mos Def. Lupes' album The Cool is very similar yet different from Mos Def's album True Magic that was released in 2006, this album True Magic was more of a promotional type CD and was commercialized alot more for the sheer fact of recognition and advancement in the music industry. The Cool is more low key and mostly known through underground sources and is and was enjoyed mostly for its unique lyricism and social comparisons to real life. The two songs for instance Go Baby and Hello/Goodbye (Uncool) has multiple collabarations that give the songs a different sound and feel to them in a positive way. They show the different types of emotion and truth an array of artist can bring to the table. This album in general is worth supporting and enjoying, no matter what anyone says at the end of the day " If you are what you say you are a super star, then have no fears, the cameras here and the microphones and they wanna know, oh oh oh oh"