Lupe Fiasco, "Hustlers and Customers"

The holiday season brings us a new track from Lupe, and you know, of course I love it--this guy could cover Crank It and I would probably love it. Here he combines a few measures from some piece of classical music (I can't name what it is, but I'm 95% certain I did ballet to this piece when I was a kid) with a classic, simple beat, resulting in a queer kind of syncopation that my ear finds addictive. There's not much else to the structure of this song, and it is repetitive, but so catchy and interesting that it doesn't get old. Lupe's rapping is pretty much what we expect of him by now: wordy rhymes and lush, vivid ghetto stories with a wide cast of characters. Good stuff.

Lupe Fiasco- Hustlers and Customers
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