Lupe Fiasco December 20, 2024

Lupe Fiasco’s Bustown’s show again reminded me of Hip Hop’s potential.

Lupe’s show started with Lupe rocking Number 1 Headband off Fiasco’s album 2024 album Samurai.

Number 1 Head Band starts with Lupe jazz humming into a chorus…“a little bit of bone bone bone”  which conjured Ella Fitzgerald’s influence on FreeStyleFellowshipThugzNHarmony in the MiddleofBarnintoA$ap Rocky etc in 10 seconds and arrives at a Charli XCX Brat’s reference.

Columbus Atheneum was filled with people and positive energy.

Columbus Athenaeum … packed.

I sat in the seats….arenas and smart tv have changed my preferred concert settings.

I sometimes find the front of the audience.

Other times I sit down and enjoy the show.

I find concerts cerebral participation.

The importance of Lupe’s vibrance December 20, 2024.

Kamala Harris reminded me of Hip Hop’s potential.

Then after that election…

I felt a tremendous disappointment in the amount of liars and bigots.

I felt like Holden Caulfield reading books about Cointelpro.

I like rap.

I like punk.

 I like women.

Lupe played Palaces off Samurai.

I knew the lyrics.

Everyone in the room knew the lyrics.

As of November 6, 2024,  I don’t like people except everyone at the Lupe concert.

We were sent into a time before Obama….

I’d became a teenage skateboarder……

I’m writing books about a new Cointelpro which I’ve determined is also a psyops..

After that election…

I’m sitting in my living room.

I’m a teenager.

I want naked ladies, food and rap.

Friday night, I’m sitting in Columbus Athenaeum which makes every concert feel special.

I’m watching a room full of Hip Hoppers who are excited about Lupe Fiasco in 2024.

Lupe’s audience is predominantly young black people.

I’m watching Lupe’s delivering Hip Hop’s promise.

A dope mc transcends any context.

We’re all being reminded..

Hip Hop defeated white supremacy several times without quite as much people power.

Lupe’s song Samurai off his latest album’s Samurai receives a similar response.

People know Lupe’s new album line for line.

Lupe was once on Kanye’s 2004 Touch the Sky.

Lupe isn’t riding a platinum feature in 2024.

Everyone in that room knew Lupe’s new music.

Lupe then raps, Kick Push.

I’d forgotten Lupe released a song about skateboarding.

Lupe’s manages a discussion about relationships in the midst of individualistic passions.

I’m wondering if Virgil played Jesus Lizard for Ye, and Lupe.

Lupe’s audience is much younger than Virgil’s late 80’s skating..

Virgil’s importance was taking 80’s skating iconography into 2016 Hip Hop fashion.…

Regardless if you like Glenn Friedman, or Atiba Jefferson’s images of teenage rebellious creativity…

Lupe describes something every skaters’ experiences.

Police kick skaters out of skate spots..

Romance..

Passion…

Lupe’s music, and raps were clear, crisp while the simple melody and drums reminded everyone of liking something.

I’m really angry about people participating in lies, white supremacy and misogyny renewing a 4 year commitment into something I wasn’t ever interested in.

Kick Push reenforced my instincts of counterculture’s beauty.

During the show…someone kept yelling H-Town..

Lupe acted annoyed at the interruption …

Lupe acted like someone showed up in Chicago screaming “Where Brooklyn at?” 

Lupe Fiasco repped where he was standing like Columbus wasn’t 5 hour and 30 minute drive from Lupe’s city Chicago.

“We’re in Columbus..why are you yelling a different cities’ name.”

We all wanted Lupe performances of Hip Hop Saved My Life…but we respected that Lupe kept saying Columbus..

Lupe played another couple of joints..

Then after Samurai’s Mumble Rap…

Lupe rocked, Hip Hop Saved My Life.

Hip Hop Saved My Life is about a Houston rapper who finds personal meaning and hope after recording a Rap.

I thought about Hip Hop Saved My Life.

This song was unique because Lupe, an intelligent mc wasn’t dissing Southern rap as ruining Hip Hop.

Lupe understood Hip Hop importance in culture.

I realized Lupe’s “biggest” songs 2006’s Kick Push and 2007’s Hip Hop Saved My Life avoided internal divides.

Lupe appealed into the humanities.

I haven’t quite developed a solution for the cold civil war.

I know finding an audience inside of an individual is where Lupe earned rapport.

Once someone trusts you then…you conversate into cultural change.

This reminded me of Hip Hop’s social skills.

Lupe found my soft-spot with Kick Push.

Then Lupe found some DJ Skrew loving Texan’s soul with Hip Hop Saved My Life.

I realized the beauty of the midwest.

I loved skateboarding.

I loved DJ Skrew. 

I love Hip Hop.

Lupe rocked Drill Music in Zion.

There was sequenced where Lupe went from Kick Push into rocking real hard Twista,  Wild Style took Adrenalin Rush with Drill.

Lupe looked like Cam’ron.

Lupe was in shape.

Lupe’s fade was on point.

I thought: Lupe’s speaking Midwest Bone Bone Bone…

People were throwing bows, and dancing like we were at Club Ice circa Papa Jack.

Lupe stepped back and Dead Prez’d the audience with Freedom Ain’t Free.

I was taking notes that Lupe was rhyming with breath control.

Lupe was using call and response.

While Lupe was rocking midwest hardstyles…

I wondered…

Can Lupe perform Gadget Flow live…

People were feeling Krunk…

Lupe chatted with the enthusiastic audience.

Lupe talked with Fiasco’s dejay….

DJ Smokey dropped the beat.

Lupe said…
“I’m from the best city in the whole wide world.”

Lupe paused..

Lupe yelled “Columbus!”

The dejay dropped the beat again..

‘I’m the best city in the whole wide world.’

Lupe rapped into the audience from a crouching position.

Lupe didn’t use recorded adlibs,..

Lupe’s deejay would say the lyric if Lupe stopped rapping for a second then Lupe would jump back in on beat.

I did every kind of inspection.

I looked at Lupe’s mouth. Lupe’s rapping.

I heard words.

I closed my eyes….

I watched his Deejay.

I’d determined this was one of the best live shows I’d seen.

Lupe landed everything and yelled..

“Columbus.”

Lupe talked with audience.

Lupe brought an artsy looking white girl on stage.

Lupe ballroom danced with this lady.

Within 2 minutes a really short white dude from the audience with a fitted was on stage with Lupe for Autoboto.

This white dude rapped with all the masculine aggression of a small macho man.

Lupe’s was around this short white man like they were lifelong friends.

I’m sure that little white man is still bragging..

Lupe Fiasco played Fundamentals which was Billy Blue song.

Billy Blue opened.

Billy Blue said he was Haitian at the beginning of Lupe’s set.

Billy Blue defended Haitians against haters.

Then Billy Blue rapped like Scarface in the manner Mobb Deep raps like Rakim.

Lupe’s other opener was Backwood Studio and critical acclaimed rapper Cavalier.

Cavalier’s braids and gear looked in place with Billy Blue and Lupe.

I watched Cavalier with Previous Industries earlier this year.

Cavalier is officially the flyest dressed rapper of 2024.

The second I contemplated Lupe Fiasco bumping Scarface and Raekwon…

“Touch the Sky” blared…

This was hearing a Dr. Dre song out of nowhere…

Lupe’s biggest verse references KMD, “Peach-fuzz buzz but beard on the verge”

Did I mention I love Hip Hop?

I caught a buzz and then…

I’m rapping along with Paris, Tokyo.

I started prancing in Chuck Taylor Converse.

I moved my feet so I could look at my shoes..

I walked into that room angry at everything…

2 hours later..

I’m dancing like I’m in a video.

Lupe rocked Mural out of audience request.

Next thing I know…We’re all singing like Bono.

Superstar..

“If you what you say you are..”

You can’t tell me nothing.

I’m rocking a piece.

I’m fucking an attractive naked lady.

I’m telling the white devils they white devils…

2025….let’s rock..

 Lupe played his “Smells like Teen Spirit” Meets “Stake is High.”

Lupe played the best song of all time: Daydreaming..

We’re all floating like a melancholy above everything negative..

Daydreaming isn’t the best song ever recorded in all of music.

Daydreaming is the best song ever recorded in all of music.

Daydreaming isn’t the best song ever recorded in all of music.

Daydreaming is the best song ever recorded in all of music.

I feel like reading a book while complimenting someone and noshing vegan vittles. Daydreaming is where Kanye turned back into Mos Def.

Lupe Fiasco isn’t my favorite rapper.

Lupe Fiasco is my favorite rapper.

While I’m basking in DayDreamining.

I hear Modest Mouse’s “Float On.”

Lupes rapping his hit song, The Show Must Go On.

I’m listening to Lupe rap about the Gaza Strip over Modest Mouse.

I’m thinking about what Lupe did with his Kanye fame..

Lupe’s two attempts at hit crossover songs: The Show Must Go on, and Words I Never Said.

Lupe didn’t play “Words I Never Said.”

During “Words I Never Said:

Lupe rapped over a dubstep beat almost a decade preceding popular dub step.

Lupe dissed Isreal’s treatment of Palestinians.

 Lupe’s condemns American government’s complicity in Isreal’s oppression of Palestinians.

Lupe dissed terrorists who kill people in response.

Lupe denounced the disadvantages inner-city people face…

Lupe didn’t play “Word’s I Never Said.”

Lupe played The Show Must Go On.

I’m thinking about Lupe’s visions.

Bush’s approval rating was 22 percent right before “Words I Never Said”  because of lying about the Gulf War.

“Words I Never Said’ as a single is a popular idea.

“The Show Goes On” released in 2010…

Lupe knew indie rock was popular and Israel oppression of people in Gaza was unlikable.

Lupe used the Kanye fame for success with “Kick Push” and “Hip Hop Saved My Live.”

Those other singles I love because for the strategy involved.

You wanna hit..

Ok… Fuck American’s Foreign Policy..

People hated George Bush….

I won’t speculate why Lupe didn’t play “Words I Never Said.”

I will say Lupe left the stage with me loving Daydreaming and really liking Lupe’s idea of a hit.

Lupe exited…

I thought…

Fiasco just ended his set with Modest Mouse and GAZA.

People roared…

Lupe returned for an encore…

Lupe talked with audience for second..

Lupe freestyles over “Never Forget You.”

Then Lupe rocked another Fiasco single…

“Dumb It Down.”

I wondered if we were supposed to yell, Dumb It Down as a call and response.

During this song…People chant bad advice at Lupe about making his music stupider..

Lupe said, 

“You going over people’s heads lu.. “ 

Lupe stuck out the microphone..

We were supposed to yell, Dumb It Down.

We didn’t want Lupe to dumb it down..

But it made sense because dumb it down is the hook.

I’m once again saying to myself…

Lupe Fiasco is my favorite rapper.

I wasn’t saying….. Lupe Fiasco isn’t my favorite rapper.

For the sake of the amount of rappers I like..

Lupe Fiasco is my favorite rapper.

Lupe Fiasco isn’t my favorite rapper.

Right before playing Hip Hop Save My Life…

 Lupe quoted KRS-1…

“Krs-1 said this thing we  mix of knowledge and movement.

If you’ve got knowledge than ur Hip..

If you’ve got movement you Hop..

If you mix knowledge and movement ..

You have Hip Hop..”

Entire room yelled Hip Hop…

Lupe’s December 2024 performance found elite experience in the league of KRS-1, Mos Def and Roots shows.