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| n/a by www.avclub.com |
By boldly expanding the parameters of mainstream hip-hop, Fiasco's threatening to make rap a welcoming place for geeks and iconoclasts as well as pimps and thugs. |
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| n/a by www.rapreviews.com |
Being bold and different for Lupe pays off right from the jump. |
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| n/a by www.slantmagazine.com |
Food & Liquor is one of the year's fresher efforts and future classics. |
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| n/a by www.prefixmag.com |
Food & Liquor is the best hip-hop album of 2006. |
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| n/a by www.cokemachineglow.com |
There is not a bad verse on it. |
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| n/a by Popmatters |
The album might not become a rap classic, but it is easily one of the best rap albums of 2006, and maybe one of the top records of any kind to appear this year. |
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| n/a by Rolling Stone |
It's full of surprising, creative moments that recall Nas and Kanye West. |
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| n/a by www.villagevoice.com |
As for that perpetual hip-hop debate as to whether an MC is better served by his beats or his words, the Chicago rapper is deft enough in both arenas that you could carry these lyrics around in your head for days... while message boards light up with claims that hip-hop's first truly great instrumental album lies embedded somewhere in all this. |
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| n/a by Pitchfork Media |
Where Fiasco misses classic status is his sonic approach. |
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| n/a by www.stylusmagazine.com |
Fiasco is actually an absolutely dazzling emcee and a genuinely nuanced personality, and both of these things are incredibly rare in hip-hop in 2006. |
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| n/a by www.playlouder.com |
It's not quite the second coming or even the first for that matter, but 'Food & Liquor' should leave you feeling sated and occasionally elated. |
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| n/a by uk.launch.yahoo.com |
Cut out vague Shindoa track, "The Instrumental", tired Gunter Kallmann Choir-retread "Daydreamin'" and the offerings here that are marred by warbled soul harmonies - consistently added as afterthoughts to choruses - and this would be perfect. |
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| n/a by observer.guardian.co.uk |
His orchestral Kanye-meets-Nas muse lacks originality. |
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| n/a by Aftonbladet |
Mixa samman Kanye Wests bombastiska soulsamplande med Jay-Z:s känsla för dramatik samt Mos Defs finurliga flow och du är någonstans i närheten av 23-åriga Lupe Fiasco. Han må än så länge göra allt ova... |
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| n/a by SVD |
Mixa samman Kanye Wests bombastiska soulsamplande med Jay-Z:s känsla för dramatik samt Mos Defs finurliga flow och du är någonstans i närheten av 23-åriga Lupe Fiasco. Han må än så länge göra allt ova... |
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