Friday 13 May 2011
LUPE FIASCO LIVE ROCK CRITIC EIGHT
Monday May 9th 2011. Lupe Fiasco performed "Words I Never Said" live on Steven Colbert's show. Skylar Grey performed with him. The band was at times a circus, a great rollicking rock machine,. At times: live performance is about having little poor performance and as much as possible of great inspired and best new extensions and improvisations in live performance.
Skylar Grey is only slightly off, could be some misguided guru's idea of cool. The concessions of a rock singer to hip hop are low low rider pants with a drop crotch on a chick yet the style is ugly on a gorgeous women and the unkempt part of her appearance is demeaning and subjugating a beautiful body and a really pretty face.
When Lupe Fiasco starts to rap, despite the fact that he is talking I can only make out the repo part of the rap. The hopping around on stage, hip is the cool part and hop is the dance. The frantic hand waving once agian brings out my ethnocentrophobia. I am looking at ridiculous hand waving, some high speed gang sign. The rythm of hip hop weather Lady Gaga does it or Lupe Fiasco does it sounds like kids on cook pans rhythm.
Perhaps Lupe is responsible for writing the material or producing the band. I do not understand the importance of Lupe otherwise. During the process of researching Lupe Fiasco I am once again shocked to find this person is an award winning and highly praised rap or hip hop artist. I will write something particularly about rap and hip hop and how I think that the acceptance of this amateurish form of performance is a con job.
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