The Fiasco Continues...

   When Chicago rapper Lupe Fiasco was basking in the glory from of his success with sophomore album, The Cool, there was much talk about his possible retirement from the game.  In an interview by HipHopDX.com a few years back when ask how sure he was about retiring, Lupe said, "85% sure" he would be retiring soon. "It actually fluctuates," Lupe continued, "It was 96% about a week ago…I just get tired you know? I get tired. It's a tiring pace that I keep. You see that show I just did? I gotta do that again tomorrow. With this hoarse voice I gotta find a way to do it again. Then get on a bus for 16 hours, get up and do it all over again for the next two weeks."  It has seemed quite possibly the Fiasco might calm to a slow pace.  Eliminating a strong force in the hip-hop industry. "I realized stuff that was exciting to me [when I found fame] was stuff I was already doing. A lot of the stuff that people would equate with success, I was already doing at like 19. So now that I'm here at 25 it's like …there's not much left to excite me."

   That was 2007 and nearly four years later he is back in a big way with, Lasers, his latest studio album on Atlantic Records set to be released March 8, 2011.   Producers that contributed to the album include The Audibles, The Neptunes, Needlz, Alex da Kid, Syience, and long-time collaborator Soundtrakk, among others. Trey Songz, John Legend, Skylar Grey, Sway, Matt Mahaffey, MDMA, Eric Turner and Sarah Green contribute vocals to the album.

   His latest single and video for "The Show Goes On" off Lasers is with out a doubt a solid track and leads one to imagine how powerful the rest of his album will be.  "The Show Goes On" features a sampled guitar lick from a Modest Mouse song, "Float On."  Which serves the beat very well, not to mention that Modest Mouse song gained the group critical acclaim on a mainstream level.  The songs lyrics have a very inspirational tones with lyrics "One in the air for the people ain't here. 
Two in the air for the father that's there. Three in the air for the kids in the ghetto. Four for the kids that don't wanna be there. None for the niggas tryna hold them back. Five in the air for the teachers not scared." This seems to be the overall tone of the song.

   It is great that Lupe has returned with a new album, which promises to fall nothing short than a huge success.  The fact still remains does the lapse in time from his Cool album prove the artist  has lost interest in the game.  Or does this show a new saga in the Fiasco we have all come to love?  The world will find out March 8.