Showing posts with label CRS. Show all posts
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Video: Lupe Fiasco interview w/ HardknockTV [Part 2]

9:00 AM 4 comments

Part 2 of Hardknock TV's interview with Lupe starts off with Nick Huff Barili asking Lupe if he has worked with any of the new generation artists like Kendrick Lamar and Blu on Food & Liquor 2.

Lupe responds that he wants to be a fan but not necessarily collaborate cause he doesn't want to taint his vision of them.

Nick continues by asking if Lupe feels he has to sneak in substance into music that plays in a commercial realm. Lupe not only answers that but also goes into misconceptions regarding his last album Lasers and says that the production on F&L 2 will be modern hip hop beats.

They also touch on the subjects of Lupe wanting to retire from the music industry and his interest in teaching, the All City Chess Club, CRS and the album he is going to put out with just Pharrell.

Video: Lupe Fiasco mourns slain friends + previews "Lamborghini Angels" lyrics on MTV's RapFix Live!

8:15 PM 25 comments


Lupe was just on RapFix Live with Nature and Sway, and did one of the best interviews he has ever done. He thanked Nature for being one of the MC's that taught him how to rap, and also for providing the "Fiasco" part to his rap alias via a song off The Firm album.

He also reveals that the creative process of some songs may be halted in order for him to read a book and become more knowledgable on the particular subject. He says that process was applied to his next single "Lamborghini Angels", then spits some of the lyrics off the track:

With her eyes to the ceiling and a needle in her brain, She looks back into the crowd, wipes the blood and then explains, How she slipped from this existence to the realm of the deranged, Her becoming must be halted to reverse what she became, From the looseness of her tongue to the pollution of her aims, To do nothing is barbaric, the solution is humane, You must destory the mind and hopefully retrain, Torture out the wildness and replace it with the tame, Blank slate, when she recovers she won't even know her name, Perfect wife and perfect lover, no resistance, no complaints, May God bless the scientific cure for the insane, Knew that she shouldn't go to school, but she thought that that should change..

It sounds like another chapter of the MYH Saga to me, haha! The process was also applied to a song called "Atomic Misphilosophy" off Food & Liquor 2 Part 2. Also, Sway played a montage of a few members from All City Chess Club expressing desire to work on a full project, to which Lupe replied "Let's do it!". He said a mixtape would be a simpler process than an album as far as the legalities go, so lets hope it comes to fruition. 

Also, he compared the status of CRS to someone going into a coma on the operating table. It's not a gurantee that it will wake up again, but it's definitely not off the table. Most importantly, watch above as Sway plays a six year old clip of himself and Lupe touring Chicago for an episode of MTV's: My Block. When the video was over, Lupe was in tears because some of the people in the clip have already passed away. He goes on to say that watching the video made him feel helpless because even six years later, nothing has changed about his neighborhood and he knows that some of the kids won't make it out of there. 

Personally, this interview struck a huge chord and I can admit that I also shed a few tears. For people outside of the U.S, HERE is an alternate link to that portion of the interview. All that, and a whole lot of other things were discussed so if you have the chance to watch this interview, I highly suggest you do. Hit the jump to watch the rest of the clips!


Lupe Fiasco gives update on CRS

8:36 PM 16 comments

Chuck Creekmur of AllHipHop talked to Lupe the other day, about the Occupy Wall Street movement, President Obama, The Republicans and other matters concerning the state of affairs in America and Lupe also gave an update on CRS, peep it below:


The outlook on a CRS project is bleak, according to Fiasco, who said an album wasn’t likely.

“Um, probably not. I don’t foresee it. I don’t know,” he said in an exclusive interview with AllHipHop.com.

The Chicago rapper proceeded to explain, at length, how things have progressed since the trio released “US Placers” in 2007.

Lupe continued: “Everybody has their different approaches. Do you want a CRS album or do you want a ‘Friend of the People‘ mixtape or do you want a ‘Food and Liquor 2‘ or do you want… It’s like, you know, you can’t do all of it.

And then with CRS I have to get Pharrell on the same page and get Kanye on the same page – is it something that we even still want to do, you know? It was something that we maybe thought about doing 3 or 4 years ago. 3 or 4 years later, is that something that we still want to do?”

Read more HERE ..full interview coming soon.

Pharrell promises: "CRS is 'cooking' "

8:20 AM 6 comments

Pharrell recently did an interview with the LA Times in which he talked about future projects and he said that the supergroup consisting of him, Kanye and Lupe is "cooking."

There is also that long brewing full-length album of Child Rebel Soldier, another side group -- this one comprised of Williams, Kanye West and Lupe Fiasco (recently the track “Don't Stop” surfaced as part of West’s G.O.O.D. Friday leaks). Williams promises the trio is “cooking.” - via LA Times

Whatever they'll serve us, I'm sure it'll be a good meal. HA!

While we at it, click HERE to download the 'Don't Stop' Instrumental.

Kanye West mentions CRS album @ LA Movie Screening

9:43 AM 8 comments

Kanye screened his upcoming 35 minute film called "Runaway" in L.A. yesterday. Once again he talked to the audience and once again he brought up CRS, just that what he said this time was much more serious.

The Associated Press reports that the producer-turned-rapper said that after "My Dark Twisted Fantasy" - recorded in Hawaii with the likes of Q-Tip, DJ Premier, RZA and Pete Rock - he will release an album of songs with Jay-Z and another with Lupe Fiasco and Pharrell Williams under the name Child Rebel Soldiers.

Video: Lupe Fiasco talks future of Child Rebel Soldier

5:19 AM 2 comments

Although they (CRS) recently dropped "Don't Stop" as part of Yeezy's G.O.O.D. Friday series, Lupe maintains the future of the project is at the mercy of fans.

When MTV News caught up with the Chicago lyricist in New York last weekend, he said the trio is gauging the feedback to their music and will then decide whether to forge ahead with new tracks.

"If people really want it, then we'll do it," Lupe said. "But if the demand is not there, it'll just be as we get to it."

Click HERE for the full article!

New Music: MeLo-X - "God Rebel Soldier"

1:20 AM No comments
MeLo-X releases his newest piece of work entitled “God Rebel Soldier”. “God Rebel Soldier” is his remix of the latest G.O.O.D Music track “Don’t Stop” ft. Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco & Pharrell who are collectively called “Child Rebel Soldier”.

MeLo also remixes the track with more percussive production and climaxing synths. Also inspired by his Jamaican heritage he adds a old school Reggae Intro provided by the legendary Bob Marley entitled “Soul Rebel”. - MeLo-X

DOWNLOAD: MeLo-X - "God Rebel Soldier" // Mediafire

Lupe Fiasco Reveals 'Don't Stop' Is Two Years Old

3:20 PM 6 comments

MTV News chopped it up with Lupe a day after the track hit the Web and the Chicago lyricist revealed that "Don't Stop" is a holdover from the early days of CRS.

"We went on the Glow in the Dark tour and it was just kinda like, maybe, maybe not, let's do a record, let's see ... so, 'Don't Stop' is kinda one of the records from that creative process a couple years ago," Lupe said, adding that West's bars may have been updated.

"The song is two years old. I think 'Ye verse might be a little recent but I don't know."Lupe explained the track was created as a way to gauge the direction the trio wanted to take with their sound.


Click HERE to read the full article!

Kanye West says: The CRS project is still on the cards!

12:47 PM 5 comments

Yesterday Kanye screened his upcoming film "Runaway" in London. Rather than simply playing tracks from the album, Kanye played the 45 minute film that he created which featured 7 of the tracks from the forth-coming album.

After the 45 minute film was shown, Kanye hosted a Q&A which was only supposed to be 5 questions, but actually turned into an hour long session.

He revealed a bunch of stuff at the event, including the fact that the CRS project is still on the cards. - via Semtex


Video: Common talks about unreleased CRS Collabo

2:30 PM 9 comments

Miss P of YK2Daily interviewed Common backstage after his performance at UCI’s Bren Events Center [04/01/10].

Besides talking about the “Just Wright” mixtape, his upcoming album “The Believer”, possible collabos on the LP and other things, he also revealed that there's an unreleased track that was supposed to be on "Universal Mind Control" which features Lupe & Kanye and was produced by Pharrell... - Doesn't seem like we'll get to hear it anytime soon though...

Lupe Fiasco talks about "LASERS" & CRS w/ DJ Green Lantern [Invasion Radio]

10:59 AM 10 comments


Last night on Green Lantern’s Invasion Radio, Lupe revealed that he’s handing over his third album, Lasers to Atlantic Records today.

Besides that he also said that Pharrell hit him up about finishing the CRS project, 4 songs are done so far!


Listen to some of the interview HERE
Click HERE to DL/hear Lupe's Freestyle!


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