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"Kick, Push" is the first single released from Lupe Fiasco's debut album, Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor. It was written by Lupe Fiasco and Soundtrakk, who also produced the song. It describes a love story between a male and a female misfit skateboarders. It has been referred to as "a needle in hip hop's haystack of complacent songs." [1]
Fiasco covers a wide variety of subjects on the album. The opening track begins with Fiasco chanting the opening lines of the Qur'an in Arabic. [18] The following track, "Real", is a reflection of "making music of which he doesn't have to be ashamed". [19] "Kick, Push", the album's lead single, is about a young male and his love for ...
After this success, Fiasco's first single "Kick, Push" was released earlier than expected. The song was a love story about two people sharing a passion for skateboarding , a topic generally not discussed in hip-hop. [ 20 ]
It became Lupe Fiasco's highest-charting song in Britain to date, outperforming both of his previous biggest hits, "Kick, Push" and "Daydreamin'", both of which peaked within the top 30 of the UK Singles Chart. The song was nominated for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration at the Grammy Awards of 2009. It was also nominated for 2008 Teen Choice Music ...
A further remixed version of I Monster's work is used in the 2016 episode "eps2.0_unm4sk-pt1.tc" in Season 2 of the series Mr. Robot, which is often mistaken for the Lupe Fiasco version. The music that appears in the show uses parts that only appear in the 1998 song, and no vocals or changes from the Fiasco version are present.
Lupe Fiasco took to Twitter to discuss his problems with his former label Atlantic Records, which the Chicago rapper was signed to from 2005 to 2009.
Fiasco unpacked and highlighted the hypocrisy of the white supremacy movement in a mini-series of three posts, all of which included disturbing pics of Roof. Read Lupe Fiasco's open letter to ...
Pages in category "Songs written by Lupe Fiasco" ... Kick, Push; L. Lamborghini Angels; Linger (Guy Sebastian song) M. Mission (Lupe Fiasco song) Mural (song) O. Old ...