The Quietus marks the twentieth anniversary of Lupe Fiasco's debut with an essay by Angus Batey. Food & Liquor is, according to him, "a wonderful once-in-a-generation debut record" — and he immediately adds the question that hangs over the whole piece: how is it that they don't make records like that anymore? The Quietus ↗
September 2026 is an anniversary season for the magazine, and Batey admits that such milestones are an uncomfortable reminder for an aging journalist of his own passage of time — when a record that sounds as fresh as if it came out yesterday is suddenly twenty, twenty-five, or thirty years old. The Quietus ↗
On SuperMusic.cz, Lupe Fiasco has nineteen songs including Kick, Push, Superstar, and The Show Goes On.
Food & Liquor was released in September 2006, and the album's executive producer was Jay-Z. The record earned a Grammy nomination, and its skateboarding track Kick, Push still ranks among the most cited hip-hop singles of the decade — partly because it stood apart from what mainstream rap was mostly talking about at the time.
Food & Liquor turns twenty. The Quietus revisits Lupe Fiasco's debut
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