TRACKLIST
A1 Intro 3:06
A2 Real 4:01
A3 Just Might Be OK 4:24
A4 Kick, Push 4:13
B1 I Gotcha 3:58
B2 The Instrumental 3:26
B3 He Say She Say 4:12
B4 Sunshine 3:55
B5 Daydreamin’ 3:54
C1 The Cool 3:46
C2 Hurt Me Soul 4:22
C3 Pressure 4:47
C4 American Terrorist 4:40
D1 The Emperor’s Soundtrack 2:56
D2 Kick, Push II 4:11
D3 Outro 12:13
DESCRIPTION
There was no other rapper like Lupe Fiasco making this much of a splash in the mainstream in 2006. Here was this bookish kid from the ’hood who could rap circles around Jay-Z and had the gall to pose with trinkets — a Wee Ninja doll, a Nintendo DS, a copy of the Quran, a copy of his first Fahrenheit 1/15 mixtape, a toy robot — on the cover for his debut. He may have been an anachronism in his time, but looking back, it’s easy to see how he laid the groundwork for other high-minded emcees with crossover potential.
There’s moments of brilliance packed into every Lupe Fiasco album, but the equilibrium of Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor has been difficult for him to recreate. To this day, it remains the most potent and well-balanced of Lupe’s work, a case of the corner boy and the scholar living in an otherworldly talented rapper’s brain working in perfect harmony.