Lupe Fiasco's 'Food & Liquor' (2006) With Comedian Justin Catchens
- Author
- Andrew Magnotta
- Published
- Thu 20 Mar 2025
- Episode Link
- https://www.spreaker.com/episode/lupe-fiasco-s-food-liquor-2006-with-comedian-justin-catchens--64938381
UCBLK's Justin Catchens joins us to celebrate one of his favorite albums of the '00s, Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor, the debut album by the Chicago-based rapper-turned-MIT-and-Johns Hopkins University professor!
Food & Liquor is as dense with prose as a classic work of literature, and we do our best to wrap our heads around the storytelling and social/political messages in Lupe's lyrics. We also discuss Lupe's connection to the 'conscious rap' genre, why this album was his commercial peak and how hip hop never fully embraced him.
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(Episode 29.)
