Lupe Fiasco is ready to drop his comply with as much as 2022’s Drill Music In Zion as he hyperlinks up as soon as once more with longtime producer Soundtrakk for a full undertaking.
Samurai has a launch date of Friday, June 28 and options solely eight tracks; a rarity within the age of music streaming. At the moment he launched the lead single “Samurai” and its accompanying video. Soundtrakk’s manufacturing is refreshing as Lupe posts up in Chicago’s Ping Tom Memorial Park to offer us some elite “battle raps.”
Lupe defined the album title in a press launch, saying “The phrase ‘samurai’ means to serve. My relationship to that phrase has at all times meant that you should be on the service of different folks, both within the total neighborhood, or on this occasion, the rap neighborhood at giant that I’ve been part of for years.”
In the event you’ve adopted Lupe, you’d know he practiced varied types of martial arts and generally posts video of himself training kata and sword methods.
Lupe has additionally been educating the course ‘Rap Research’ at MIT in Cambridge, MA since 2022, and has additionally since been made a fellow at Yale, sharing his distinctive perspective on the business at giant. This album can be the primary undertaking since 2007’s The Cool that Lupe and his mentor/enterprise associate Charles “Chill” Patton have labored on collectively. Chill was serving a jail sentence since 2007 and was lastly launched in 2023 after 16 years.
“It felt nice to be again within the studio once more as a household,” the rapper famous.
Try the album art work and tracklist beneath:
Lupe Fiasco ‘Samurai’
Courtesy Picture
- “Samurai”
- “Mumble Rap”
- “Cake”
- “Palaces”
- “No. 1 Headband”
- “Bigfoot”
- “Outdoors”
- “Til Eternity”
