Lupe Fiasco made his triumphant return on June 24 with his latest album Drill Music In Zion. Although the veteran rapper aimed to complete the 10-track project in 24 hours, it wound up taking three days, a feat by any standards.
On Tuesday (June 28), Lupe Fiasco revealed additional details about the recording of the album via Twitter, explaining it was recorded on GarageBand with a $100 USB microphone. As he tweeted, “I ‘wrote’ (I actually didn’t write it more like spoke it) & self-recorded ‘Drill Music In Zion’ from scratch over the course of 72 hours, give or take some hours, only stopping to eat and sleep, entirely on GarageBand with a $100 USB microphone in my living room.”
Drill Music In Zion served as Lupe Fiasco’s eighth studio album and follow-up to 2018’s Drogas Wave. The rollout kicked off in May with the lead single “AUTOBOTO.” The 40-year-old MC described the place he was in when he wrote it in a press release.
“Your whole life you’re physically growing, and as an artist, I feel like I’m taller now,” he said. “Not that I’m at a higher place of morality, it’s that my vantage point and perspective is higher. I can see further.”
Lupe Fiasco 'Drill Music In Zion' Reflects On The Ills Of The Industry With Impeccable Lyricism
The album was produced entirely by Lupe Fiasco’s longtime collaborator Soundtrakk, the Chicago producer behind several of his classics, including “Kick, Push,” “Superstar” and “Hip Hop Saved My Life.”
It sounds like it too. Album is decent but all the beats are the same.
Production sounds great minus a song or two.
Album slaps
I highly doubt that the beats were mixed and mastered in Garageband, too. Moreover, he probably used several expensive VSTs in Garageband. So using Garageband says about nothing.
He didn’t it was completed in 72 hours but he recorded all the lyrics in they time for 9 songs. He then sent it to Soundtrakk who mixed and mastered it for months after.
At his crib in Central Illinois???
wasn’t really feeling this, and I’m assuming he means it took him 72 hours to pick the beats, write to them all andrecord it all or maybe some songs were written before?
You stand alone with that bro. Stop. Album is a 4.5 at bare minimum
I had the ribbon mike for 100 dollors two it well build
Slaps. GarageBand doesn’t surprise me at all. Folks need to remember daws like GarageBand fl, ableton, etc, have more processing power and tools than Micheal Jackson had when Thriller was created.