A Career Retrospective: Lupe Fiasco
Don't miss Lupe Fiasco tonight on 106!
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Lupe Fiasco Is on 106 & Park Tonight at 6P/5C! - Some may say that Lupe Fiasco is a little eccentric, but we think that he has a truly beautiful mind. This forward thinking emcee is coming through 106 tonight to celebrate his fourth studio album, Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1! Don't miss a minute at 6P/5C! (Photo: Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)
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2006: Food & Liquor - In 2006, the world was introduced to a cool kid from Chicago named Lupe Fiasco. His debut single, "Kick, Push," had a truly innovative sound that we weren't really hearing in hip hop at that point. Also, lyrically, Lupe was to be respected without a doubt since that song actually referenced drug dealing and not skateboarding like most thought. (Photo: Atlantic Records)
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Hip Hop Intellectual - As a child Lupe wrote a lot of poetry and plays, so needless to say the kid was onto something bigger. Because of his views he's often times been grouped into the hip hop intellectuals category with artists like Common, Talib Kweli, and Mos Def. (Photo: Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images)
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Lupe's Religion - Lupe Fiasco was raised in the Islamic faith and is a Muslim. It's not a secret and it's something that Lupe declares with pride. (Photo: Devone Byrd, PacificCoastNews.com)
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2007: Lupe Fiasco's The Cool - One year after releasing Food & Liquor, Lupe release his sophomore album Lupe Fiasco's The Cool. This album was close to Lupe's heart as he had experienced the tragic loss of his father to type II diabetes and his friend Stacks Bundles. Standout tracks on this album were "Paris, Tokyo" and "Hip Hop Saved My Life."(Photo: Atlantic Records)
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