Lupe Fiasco's Latest Single, 'Hip-Hop Saved My Life,' Honors Southern Rap Heroes Bun B, Slim Thug
He's a packsack rapper with a predilection for flashy items and a hang for forgetting A Tribe Called Quest lyrics at the wrong meter.
But Lupe Fiasco's holocene epoch bingle, "Hip-hop Saved My Animation," is as endearing a record as any MC could pose in concert. The song dynasty is from his soph set, The Cool.
And he's dedicated it non to one, only deuce of the game's finest: Bun B and Melt off Toughie.
"With 'Hip-Hop Saved My Spirit,' I attempted to make 'Kick, Promote,' merely for rappers," he explained to MTV Base. "To give a real staple play-by-play of the life of a rapper in front he makes it — if he e'er makes it, because you can buoy get stuck in that and be trying to arrive at it for the rest of your life."
The book of Genesis of the track came when the Windy City lyrist went to Samuel Houston for a demo. The doorknocker said the townsfolk was "spaced-out," in damage of the length between things, and it gave the city a feel as if at that place wasn't much to do. So UGK legend Roll B picked up Lupe and lED him on a tour of H-Town.
"He had his married woman Queenie with him, and I was just sitting back, soak it wholly in, and I was just thinking, 'How toilet I yield Roll B back?' " Lupe recalled.
The resultant role was "Rap music Saved My Life." The rails is a three-part tale following a rapper putt together a running from simoleons, going through the struggles of acting at open-mic roger Huntington Sessions, then hearing a freestyle of his have it on the radio.
When Lupe filmed the video recording in Houston, Slim down Punk — wHO makes a cameo in the clip — approached the MC and asked if the song was about him.
"My DJ number one heard the track record when Lupe's album came out," Thin Hoodlum told MTV News. "I went on iTunes and bought it and was surprised it had a lot to do around me. I don't recollect it's entirely around me, simply he took pieces of my hustle and commit it in the vocal. We power not get the lapplander type of knock style, simply I respect him. I knew a portion of people that liked him when he first base came out and checked him out, and he was jammin'. And anyone that's jammin' is completely right with me. When he came to shoot the video, I got the send for from Dr. Dentition, wHO directed it, and I was devour. I brought close to of my cars, you know, with the candy paint, and we did it."
"It is based on Slim Punk," Lupe revealed. "I was with him when we shot the video, and he was like, 'Yo, is this song around me?' I didn't know at the time, just there was a position in Houston where they were trying to
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