Video: Plies- 100 years

I didn't even know there was a video (probably was on uncut). The 07' Ice Cube with a sprinkle of C-Murder is how i describe this track.

Bow Wow is hardbody lol

"Lupe Fiasco's The Cool" Review by Basshead

Lupe Fiasco is one of those guys that you either hate or you love. The hood calls him a nerdy skateboarder, but the people who don't skim through music and can refrain from putting the bass on maximum realize that he is a brilliant wordsmith. This guy born Wasalu Jaco is indeed from the ghetto, the westside of Chicago to be exact. But unlike the majority of mainstream rap knuckleheads, he doesn't glorify violence, mysogyny, or drugs. He's a genius at analyzing the obvious and putting it into his own complex, islamic-inspired perspective. His critically acclaimed first album Lupe Fiasco's Food and Liquor was underachieving on the charts due his cd being leaked multiple times, months prior to it's official retail date. Well...he's back and he didn't dumb down his thoughts for anybody on his new semi-conceptual record Lupe Fiasco's: The Cool."
"The Cool" was actually a track off of Food and Liquor (produced by Kanye West), which inspired this project. It was a track about an ex-hustler who digs himself out of his grave and walks through his own neighborhood, only to witness the cruelty of the the streets (the guy with the suit in the "Superstar" video is The Cool). It sounds extreme but he's a hell of a story teller. Every track is not towards the concept, but throughout the album he introduces two other characters. First he introduces The Street, who is a female that has a love affair with The Cool. Later on in the album he introduces The Game, who ultimately kills The Cool. If Jay-Z was thinking deep with American Gangster then Lupe's mind was in the depths of hell. To the contrary, the majority of the album is not towards the concept. The songs that are aimed towards the topic are so substance filled, he only needs a couple of them. Songs like "Paris, Tokyo" find Lupe getting his soulful groove on while talking about taking visits overseas with a little female accomplice, over an A Tribe Called Quest sounding instrumental. He only has one big name on the album where he calls for Snoop D-O double G's help on the appropriately titled "Hi-Definition," where Wasalu spits, "And in my flyness I've become the hero and the sidekick/The rider and the nigga that'll ride with/in ya ear like the maker of the vivrant/asalaam alaikum to the maker of the vivrant." If you understand that line, I fux with you. The strongest conceptual songs are "The Coolest," where he describes the mindset of The Cool and "The Die" which is a toungue twisting, dramatic, line trading expose' with GemStones (formerly known as Gemini).
Lupe is on top of his game,and his potential is scary. Subject matter is never a problem to this 24 year old Hip-Hop wiz kid. For goodness sake, this guy compares street hustling to3 plus minutes of food references ("Gotta Eat"). The downside to this album is where he tries to push the boundaries too far. On a couple rare instances Lupe slips on the annoying crooning/crying "Hello/Goodbye" and on the unnecessary, unsuccesful ladies inspired outro "Go Baby." Overall, this album is mind stimulating and another chapter in the forever growing Lupegacy. His next album, which he describes as his last is titled LupEND...

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