Lupe Fiasco: Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt 1 – review

(Atlantic)The great American novel is a dream writers can aspire to but never achieve. A similar fate has befallen Chicago's Lupe Fiasco, though whether he'll notice is another matter. Actively shunning sexism and violence, Fiasco stands out from many of his hip-hop peers. But he does so in such portentous fashion – "revered by the rich, approved by the poor" – that you wish he'd spend more time singing about his cars (which he also does on this album). Audobon Ballroom bigs up the Harlem re...

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