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[Jan. 17th, 2009|11:44 pm] |
| [ | A Bit of the Old Ludwig Van |
| | Lupe Fiasco - Daydreamin' featuring Jill Scott | ] |
I finally had a decent day at work, for the first Saturday in ages. I work 11-9, and normally, it's pretty dead all day, maybe like, 10-12 deliveries all day. But today I had 19 all day, and most of them were orders near 100 bucks, so I wound up getting big tips, so I went to Barnes and Noble afterwards and bought Salo, which I've been dying to buy for such a long time.
Towards the end of the night, I had a delivery to a house with a huge, steep driveway. I got up fine, but when I was walking back down, I hit a patch of ice, and pretty much wound up doing a split, which seriously hurt, and ripped my fucking pants on the inside of the leg, down to the knee. Probably because they were dress-y pants, and not meant to be worn going in and out of a car all day, so I guess the strain got to them and they ripped. Thankfully, my grandparents live like, 5 minutes away from my job, so since they were doing my laundry for me, they brought a pair of jeans over for me. Seriously embarassing, even though no one saw it.
Just got back into the habit of listening to Lupe Fiasco on an almost daily basis. I can only tolerate a few mainstream rap artists, like Kanye West and a couple of others, only in small doses, but I love alternative rap, artists like Mos Def, Common, and Talib Kweli, among others. I think Lupe Fiasco falls more into the second category, as his songs are way too unconventional to be labeled traditional hip hop, if we're going by the guidelines.
I saw him in concert at the end of my freshman year of college, when he played the spring concert at school, and it was seriously one of the most entertaining shows I've ever been to. He was so energetic and like... happy to be performing, doing it more for the sake of music than the paycheck the school was giving him, and I think that's a lost art in music, especially in rap. Any rapper who knows it's not about the retardedly-sized chains with more diamonds than they can count really knows what the art is about. It disgusts me to hear rappers putting out these half assed albums, just so they can get more money to buy more jewels and cars and shit. The worst part about mainstream rap, to me, is that it treats women like shit. Yeah, that sounds so horribly old fashion, but I grew up with just a mom and a sister, so I've always thought that treating women like... normal people is commonplace. It just pisses me off that these dumbasses come along and pretty much explain, step by step, how treat a woman like a whore or some shit like that. Ugh.
But yeah, back to Lupe. I first heard him on Kanye West's "Touch The Sky", and this kid immediately comes in and mentions Lupin the 3rd, which, as bad as it can be, is one of my favorite animes. So I knew this guy was awesome. All these inane pop culture references from the 80s, skateboarding, and anime. Yeah, I immediately thought he was awesome. His first big release, Food and Liquor, is up in the top5 of my favorite hip hop albums of all time. From Kick, Push, the story of a young skater who falls in love with the streets and a fellow skater, to The Instrumental, to Daydreamin', where the first verse is about a giant robot project building. The ingenuity and creativity of the album is incredible.
I totally blanked on whatever else I was gonna say about this, so if I remember it, I'll post it later. |
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