I'm from the city in the midwest, best city in the whole wide wide world

Oh. Emm. Gee.

It leaked.

I got it.

I'm freaking.

It's almost 1am and I have a paper to finish, but this is so damn good.... so far.

Earlier today I went and nabbed a few tracks that surfaced on the net. Get them from IndieMuse. I rocked them each about twelve times on my computer here at home, twelve times on my laptop on campus, and twelve times while walking to and fro.

Here's another from the album, "Go Go Gadget Flow", which may now be my new favorite. Download it.

You're makin 'em wanna do right, Lu.

And I'm tryin'a graduate from skool, Lu.

I've got my go-go-go-go-go-go-go-go-go-go-gadget flow.

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Lupe Mixtape

Wow, so I'm waaaayy behind on this, but.. go check out the promo bootleg mixtape here, to hold you over until next Tuesday.

ZIP format.

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Favorite Songs of 2007, Part Dos

Remember, these are in no particular order.

And remember the percentage significance [last hint: it is the chance that this album would make my fave albums list].

Apparat - "Fractales" parts One & Two, from Walls; 88%
I feel like I've talked about Apparat ever since I got the album over the summer. I liked it immediately, and it's only grown on me since. Apparat is now known for being the driving force behind Ellen Allien & his wonderful Orchestra of Bubbles [which is strangely just about the most accurate title for a record that I've seen], and he's currently probably my favorite electro/glitch producers. "Fractales", in two parts, is some of the best work I've heard of his. The comedown which is "Part 2" wouldn't sound out of place on a Sigur Ros record.


Chromeo - "Tenderoni", from Fancy Footwork; 55%
Umm.. this is just funky as all hell, and if you can't get over yourself and dance to it then you need to stop coming to this space.


CRS [Lupe Fiasco, Kanye & Pharrell] - "Us Placers", originally from * NA%, for the mixtape, holmes. 66% for Graduation.
I was originally really hesitant of the Thom Yorke sample, as it's just as obvious as Kanye's Daft Punk sample in "Stronger". But who am I to criticize-- I blatantly sample all sorts of recent crap. I guess I just expect more out of proper producers-with-studios, who should leave the mash-up fodder to us kids-with-computers. Anyway, it's hard to not like a track which is based on a song which you already like so much, and the three boys' flow is smooth like butter. So is Thom's.

Give it up for:
Lupe: "a closet full of clothes and some brand new dangers // and some mexican floral arrangers"
Kanye: "look at all the new beautiful faces // at-home supermodel's MySpaces"
Pharrell: simply for rhyming GlaxoSmithKline.

*Originally appeared on Kanye's pre-Graduation mixtape Can't Tell Me Nothing, but then Kanye decided he had to have it on his album and that's probably ok since he produced it and all; in the end, it's a bonus track or on the export versions of Graduation or something. I also heard it may be coming out on Lupe's new record, The Cool, although it looks like that intel may be inaccurate.

Find all of my FaveSongs2007 posts here.
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