![]() While die-hard fans - the same who went to war alongside him to get Lasers released over a decade ago - have continued to hold him in high reverence, he isn’t quite as popular for younger Hip Hop listeners, which is fair.ĭespite continued Billboard success, his albums have since strayed as far away from Lasers’ lapses of commercial submission as possible, becoming progressively more experimental, sheltering him from broader mainstream adoption.įour years removed from his previous release Drogas Wave - aside from some loosies and two EPs - Lupe is back with a project he dubbed his Illmatic. True, it may lay in his refusal to play the industry game, especially in his late career. Many MCs get left off best rapper lists, but none more inexplicably than Chicago-native and self-proclaimed “most black-balled rapper ever,” Lupe Fiasco.
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