Video: Lupe Fiasco: USA Network Character Approved Award Winner (Full)

Spotted at Nah Right.

Lupe Fiasco MySpace Page

Video: Lupe Fiasco - Live at the University of San Francisco.

(Lupe Fiasco - "Go Go Gadget Flow/Dumb it Down" - Live at University of San Francisco)

Videos come courtesy of Lupe-END, and they were spotted at Midwest Broadcast. It's footage of Wasalu performing a few of his Cool tracks at the University of San Francisco. To watch more, head here.

Lupe Fiasco MySpace Page

Lupe Fiasco Announces "LupEnd" as Triple Album

(Via)

Well, rapper Lupe Fiasco is nothing if not ambitious. After 2007's The Cool, which was a very loose concept record telling the story of three different characters: the Cool (introduced on a track from Fiasco's debut record, Food & Liquor), the Streets, and the Game. Let's not forget about Mike History either. Discerning the narrative from the album's tracks was a little bit of a challenge, but that didn't stop The Cool from being one of the best records of its year. So what does Lupe do for a follow-up? Tamper his ambition. Oh, no. No, no, no. Instead, his supposedly final album LupEnd, is going to consist of three discs. Individually, they will be titled Everywhere, Nowhere, and Down Here.

Watch the video at the top of the post.

Lupe Fiasco MySpace Page

Video: Lupe Fiasco - Live in Toronto

Spotted at Nah Right

Lupe Fiasco Debuts New Songs From Upcoming Album

Fake Shore has posted an earlier video of Lupe Fiasco performing new material from his upcoming third, and supposedly final, album LupEnd. Early this morning, the LupEnd blog uploaded a better quality video of the new tracks, from the same show at Indiana University.

Watch it at the top of the post.

Lupe Fiasco MySpace Page

(Jonathan Graef)

Video: Lupe Fiasco - "Dumb It Down" (Live at the Park West)

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Download: Lupe Fiasco - "The Birds and The Bees" (via)

Fake Shore Drive has got the scoop on a couple of live videos of Lupe Fiasco performing live at the Park West crowd, to what he describes as a "PG Crowd". If anyone needs to hear the anti-anti-intellectual (double negatives in the muthafucking hizz-ouz) message of "Dumb it Down", it's probably a PG crowd. Still, from the looks of it, Lupe killed it.

Even more interesting is a interview that Andrew from Fake Shore did regarding the leaks of Lupe's old material (the posting of which got Fake Shore linked to Pitchfork). Lupe is cool with it. Watch that interview here.

Lupe Fiasco MySpace Page

(Jonathan Graef)

Atmosphere, Lupe Fiasco Sign Up To "Take Labor Day Back"

Do you celebrate Labor Day? Of course you do, even if you don't necessarily know of its origins. So what better way to celebrate your day off than to see other people working in order to celebrate your right to a day off now and again? If you don't already have plans on Sept. 1st, then head on to Harriott Island Regional Park to watch local hip-hop heroes Atmosphere, Chicago-rapper Lupe Fiasco, Billy Bragg, Tom Tom Morello, Steve Earle, and Allison Moorer take back Labor Day. From whom, exactly, I'm not sure, but the fact that the concert is taking place at the foot of the Republican National Convention should provide a big enough hint.

As for the details of the concert itself, we'll leave that to the good folks at Rhymesayers to fill you in on the rest of the details:

The Take Back Labor Day Festival, sponsored by SEIU, will include a concert, a You Tube station, a children's area, and a large audience-participation art project. Joining the performers will be SEIU leaders Andy Stern and Anna Burger and other special guests.

The festival will both celebrate workers' achievements and promote a New Vision for the 21st Century that includes:

-Affordable, quality healthcare for everyone;
-Wages that can support families;
-Freedom to join unions without intimidation;
-Retirement security.

Tickets for the event, which will take place on Sept. 1 from noon to 7 p.m, can be bought through Ticketmaster or Fifth Element. That's right, a pro-union concert is being sponsored by Ticketmaster. As Bart Simpson would say, the ironing is delicious.

"Take Back Labor Day" is on Sept. 1st.

(Jonathan Graef)

This post originally appeared on Minneapolis Fucking Rocks