So you’re bored with hip hop and your real dream is to create streetwear. Cool. You feel like after three albums you’ve had enough of the industry and you would have achieved all that you came to do. Cool. You like to ruffle feathers on internet message boards and you had a very public moment during the tribute of a classic group that you didn’t care to listen to¹. Still cool. But you throw on a British accent change your name to Percival Fats and do your best Gnarles Barkley impression? Really? “Thanks for the hack you stupid bastards?” Really Lupe?! Really. Experimental session gone public maybe, but a British accent? REALLY?!?! Only time will tell if this is the evolution of Lupe or just studio fun. Hit the jump for links and to hear Lupe do his thing.

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1. Ironically, it sounds like Lu hired the lady from Midnight Marauders for the beginning of “Invaders Must Die”. I knew you listened! [↩]

I know I’m late to the party, but so what…this isn’t a gossip blog. But Really Matty? Writing credits for this song when its unmistakably the same song? Really. Oh, she changed the words a bit, so she should get cred for “writing.” Really? I guess “Ice Ice Baby” and “Under Pressure” are worlds apart too? Did we not learn anything from Dream Girls? Poor Kid. Industry rule #4080.

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Random white male in coffee shop: Obama and Biden in 08 (said directly to me with enthusiasm and pumped arms)!

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