Lupe Fiasco gets his 1st #1 Album.

Beamin to his 1st #1 Album

What you need to Know:
1. This is Lupe's least favorite work. Read his words.
2.  In bittersweet irony, it's the one album that Atlantic pushed enough to be his 1st Number one album in the country.
3.  Turns out everybody CAN win in record label battles.  Lupe's reacts below.

Update: That caption was written BEFORE I saw the MTV post.  That either means it's a lazy metaphor, or that I could do their writing staff's job... or both.

To see his reaction just...


Lupe's Tweets in order: POETRY IN MOTION

every year we do better, steady on the rise, the tears for lost ones weigh heavy on the eyes, dita sunny’s, gold prezzy, twin turbo chevy fo’ a ride of course, from the backseats of phantoms i thought of leaving thru suicide doors, love got me thru it, best fans ever made the whole world care, had 51st & 6th looking like Tahrir Square! apologize for dumbing it, but look what has become of it, “All Black Everything” some old white southern woman humming it, Took Gaza Strip’s Politics and put them number one and shit, took the myth that concious dont equal commercial and mothafuckin pummeled it! weapons for the weak, lessons for the meek, the too proud to beg, and the too poor to speak, the too smart to listen, and the too dumb to teach, two sides to every story so i listen to both speak, shout 2 all the dj’s, who gave a nigga replays, @fakeshoredrive @rapradar & the whole internet space, U put it online I put it in they face, and there it will remain, for atleast another week, right at number 1, hahaha yeah nigguh, stay strong Japan, Nate Dogg REST IN PEACE!!!

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