Lupe Fiasco Begins Preparing The Cool

Lupe Fiasco is ready to battle. No, he isn’t at war with fellow rappers. His battle will take place as a stance against bootleggers.

 

With his second LP, The Cool, in the works, Lupe is seeking Revenge. His method is already mapped out.

 

“There’s gonna be a lot of setup and a lot of preproduction on this album, so it’s gonna be in pieces,” he recently told MTV. “But
the pieces won’t come together, seriously, until like three weeks
before it comes out. We’ll probably record everything in, like, a week.
So we’re just gonna get it all together, map it out, have it done to a
T, and then go and record. Then fresh from the studio, fresh to
mastering …so it eliminates a lot of time and error that was
surrounding [my debut].”

 

Aside from a possible Kanye West beat, The
Cool may end up being completely handled by F&F producers.

 

Now,
the title may seem familiar. That’s because this album will further
examine the character that told us there is “no heaven for a gangsta”
on Food & Liquor.  

 

“People
are gonna see it and be like, ‘Wow, ain’t that the dude from this
song?’ I’m building concepts now for the album,” he continued. “I got
the title, and I work top down. … This album is gonna be a bit more
streamlined and a little bit more focused, I guess you could say…Not
a concept album,” he noted. “But I been wrestling with how to
make the concept about what I want to make the album about fit but
still have enough room where it’s just not a full-on story about
somebody else. Where you still get all the — what I think are —
necessary ingredients to do a good, good album.”

 

Lupe is currently anticipating a Summer release date for The Cool.