Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor

Listen man, a lot of this was good, but I don’t like long Oscar acceptance speeches and the outro lovefest on this album really tried my patience. I wanna drop his rating by an entire star, but that does seem rude to his crew that he wanted to thank.
So my rating will generously be based on the entire album EXCEPT the last 12 minutes, which was so damn annoying since I don’t know those people!

I mean... what more do I even have to say? This is one of Lupe Fiasco's most astonishing pieces of work to date and some would argue it isn't even his best. Great lyrical capabilities, amazing storytelling, themes, and production, and it still stands strong as one of his best projects today.

Extremely dated. It's fine but it doesn't deserve to be on this list

Shoutout to 1001albumsgenerator.com for giving me a place to journal. Shoutout to Hinge, the platform that allowed me to meet my girlfriend. (Hinge!) Shoutout to my girlfriend. Ain't gonna say no names, but you know I love you. (I love you!) Shoutout to all the exes that led me to her. (lesbians unite!) Shoutout to Kara, shoutout to Caro (karaoke!) shoutout to Bruce, Nara, all of them. Y'all led me here and I can't forget about you. Thank you. (thanks!) Shoutout to my girlfriend (she knows!) for her encouragement, to keep journaling. (thank you!) Shoutout to my best friends, Shye, Anthony, Claire (it'll be okay!) shoutout to Allie for knowing me for 15 years. (sorry I was weird and cringe when I was like 12!) Shoutout to Elvis Costello for having six albums on this damn list (for real?!) and shoutout Robert Dimery for adding a 7th Rolling Stones album to the list (eat shit, Rob!) Shoutout to the Rolling Stones for kicking Fiona Apple off the list for the new edition of the book (you still suck!) and shoutout Fiona Apple for being so cool. Shoutout to David Bowie having nine entire albums on this list. (I'm not the biggest fan of you!) Shoutout Radiohead for having six albums on this list (I don't like Kid A all that much!) and for being my first favorite band when I was 15 years old. Shoutout Allie (again!) for also liking Radiohead, shoutout Giles Corey (have a nice life!) for being nice to me when I was a kid in high school. Shoutout to all my teachers. But no shoutout for you, Mr. Nicolay, for perving on your little girl students and drunk texting them after-hours. (he drank himself to death!) Shoutout to my dad for being my family's resident pedophile. (go to hell!) Shoutout all my therapists, including the two who died. (Linda! Gordon!) Big shoutout to my current therapist, Ashley, you rock. Shoutout Lupe Fiasco (Chicagooo!) and all the people he mentioned in the last song (I don't know any of you!) to help make this record possible. It's a great album, classic conscious hip hop, a love letter to his friends and family (he loves you!) and all his favorite artists. (Jay-Z!) Shoutout Lupe Fiasco for being unpredictable and announcing albums and then immediately cancelling them. (where's Food & Liquor II Pt. 2?!) Oh my god, he's touring with B.o.B this year. Oh no. (Take back that shoutout!)

I am coloured by Lupe Fiasco's The Cool, which is one of my all time albums. And it doesn't hit that level. Kick, Push and Daydreamin' are next level though

...Mr. Fluffy, Alex Trebek, Maximilien Robespierre, Mr. Hands, The Elephant Man, Phil Keoghan, Helen Keller even though she can't hear this, Bert and Ernie, Carl Heinrich Hellmann, the moon lady from Eraserhead, my teeth, Tiny Tim hope he gets better soon, New Zealand and Tasmania, homestarrunner.com, Sophia from the Golden Girls, charmeleon, Gordon Ramsay, PeeWee Herman, weather, Ice McDonald...

3/5

Completely new to me and good. All for more Kanye era hip hop without the guilt of listening to Kanye.

Never heard before… liked it

Which cartridge do you think he has in that ds? I reckon Spirit tracks of Drawn To Life. Drawn to Life had such a depressing vibe to it, all those grey clouds. I loved it.

I also liked this album! It's too long, obviously, but there's some nice backing tracks here, his voice is good, and some of the references were very interesting. He's so right about the misogynistic nature of 90s rap music, speak out bestie! I liked when ladies turned up to sing a little. And that 12 minute outro of random shoutouts made me heheheh hohohoho.

It's fine. Not my favorite hip hop.

Nothing necessarily wrong with this album, it’s just quite unspectacular. It’s definitely not one that will last long in the memory. Apart from Outro, ridiculous track. 13 minutes of this Head Melt thanking seemingly everyone under the sun lol.

The conscious hip hop lyrics flew past me. And that 12 minute outro wasn't too bad, it reminds me of RAYE crediting those who helped make her album. If we took all that out, this album sits perfectly within its time as one of many Kanye-adjacent hip hop albums.

Jamais écouté avant.

Encore un très bon album de hip-hop, très accessible, ici agrémenté d'une véritable sensibilité mélodique pop, de productions riches et variées et de textes chiadés qui évitent pour l'essentiel les clichés du genre. En dehors de l'interminable outro, dont je ne perçois pas bien l'intérêt, et de quelques morceaux un peu en deça, je ne me suis pas ennuyé un instant. À se demander pourquoi Lupe Fiasco, dont j'avais déjà vu passer l'erreur le nom mais dont j'ignorais tout, n'a pas la notoriété d'autres artistes du genre, souvent moins talentueux...

Top : Daydreamin'
Flop : Outro

Managed to get my toe tapping at times. Second listen not quite as enjoyable as the first

Fun. Pop rap with an old school feel. Solid lyricist - especially for a first LP. 3.

Feels very Jay-Z and every bit as enjoyable. Kick, Push is fucking gold and I've never skated.

Not a huge fan. I’m not sure how much of an impact this album had. There were plenty of other rap artists doing something similar and better. Not to knock Lupe, he’s not a bad artist. This album just doesn’t seem very impressive sonically or influentially.

Conscious‑Rap, Gesellschaftskommentar, stilistische Breite. Doch trotz einzelner starker Ideen wirkt das Album oft überfrachtet und zerfasert. Die Produktion schwankt, die Hooks bleiben selten hängen, und Lupe findet hier noch nicht die Klarheit, die seine späteren Highlights tragen wird.

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The "American" song is genius. The rest is the same old predictable stuff.