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The Best Rap Verses of 2022

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  • SZA, “Smoking On My Ex Pack”


  • Sauce Walka, “Dangerous Daringer”


  • Lola Brooke, “Here I Come”


  • Joey Badass, “Survivors Guilt”


  • GloRilla, “Out Loud Thinking”


  • Takeoff, “Feel the Fiyaaaah”


  • Denzel Curry, “The Ills”


  • Vince Staples, “The Beach”


  • Quelle Chris, “Nynex”


  • BabyTron, “Manute Bol”


  • billy woods, “Remorseless”


  • Freddie Gibbs, “Black Illuminati”


  • Ab-Soul, “Do Better”


  • Conway the Machine, “Stressed”


  • JID, “Kody Blu 31”


  • Benny the Butcher, “10 More Commandments”


  • Tyler, the Creator, “Cash In Cash Out”


  • Central Cee, “LA Leakers Freestyle”


  • Doechii, “Pro Freak”


  • Lupe Fiasco, “Ms Mural”


  • Pusha-T, “Just So You Remember”


  • Che Noir, “Communion”


  • 21 Savage, “Jimmy Cooks”


  • Jay-Z, “God Did”


  • Lil Wayne, “God Did”


  • Kendrick Lamar, “Mother I Sober”


  • J. Cole, “Johnny P’s Caddy”


  • Malice, “I Pray For You”


  • Drake, “Churchill Downs”


  • Cardi B, “Tomorrow 2”

Lupe Fiasco’s ‘The Cool’ Is Officially Certified Platinum After 15 Years

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It’s difficult to discuss the rap landscape in the 2000s without mentioning Lupe Fiasco. His 2007 album Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool, in particular, boasted records like “Superstar” and “Fighters,” both featuring Matthew Santos, and “Paris, Tokyo.” After 15 years, the Chicago rapper can now lay claim to The Cool being RIAA-certified Platinum.

In a tweet on Wednesday, renowned music pundit Andrew Barber shared the major milestone, writing, “After 15 years, Lupe Fiasco’s classic second album ‘The Cool’ has officially been certified PLATINUM.” After a career full of ups and downs, including stepping away from Atlantic Records, the musician has another reason to celebrate his contributions to rap.

Despite label issues, the Tetsuo & Youth artist has not slowed down. At the end of June, Fiasco released Drill Music In Zion. The 10-track album was led by “Autoboto” featuring Nayirah, the sole guest appearance on the album. Drill Music In Zion was the “Kick, Push” artist’s first LP in almost four years, following the 2018 album Drogas Wave featuring Nikki Jean, Crystal Torres, and Simon Sayz, among others.

Aside from the music, Fiasco is set to teach a rap course at MIT. He also ran a podcast with Royce Da 5’9″ briefly before the two parted ways in a not-so-peaceful manner.

Lupe Fiasco Celebrates “The Cool” Album’s 15th Anniversary With Tour

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Lupe Fiasco announces an upcoming tour to celebrate one of his well-known albums. Lupe Fiasco has announced the tour for his 2007 album, The Cool, to celebrate its 15th anniversary. The tour will go to five cities this September, including New York, Boston, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, and San Fransico. In addition, the album debuted […]

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Lupe Fiasco Shares The Meaning Behind His Latest Album, ‘Drill Music In Zion’

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Prior to the end of last month, it’d been almost four years since Lupe Fiasco released an album. His last project came back in 2018 with Drogas Wave. That project arrived with 24 songs and multiple features from Nikki Jean as well as contributions from Damian Marley, Simon Sayz, Crystal “Rovel” Torres, Elena Pinderhughes, and Bishop Edgar Jackson. Last month, Lupe returned with Drill Music In Zion, which delivered a ten brief songs with Ayesha Jaco and Nayirah. Now that the album has been out and available to enjoy for some time, Lupe took a moment to explain the project’s title during a sit-down with SiriusXM.

“What I can say, and this isn’t to get you to listen to the album by any means,” he said. “The best definition of the title was actually from my sister. My sister does the opening record on the album, Ayesha Jaco. She did the opening on my first two records, Food & Liquor and The Cool.” He added, “I gave the title to her, and it’ll make sense when we get into it because I did this record in three days, and I didn’t have time.” He continued:

There’s a scene from Matrix 2 where they’re in Zion, so everybody knows the name of the little sanctuary where the humans were able to live in the Matrix movie is Zion. That place is a sanctuary away from all the agents and other stuff. But there’s a scene in there and the whole arc of the movie the robots have found a way to drill down in Zion. So they finally found it and maybe it’s Matrix 2 there’s a scene where they’re all standing in Zion and it’s all quiet then all of a sudden you see pieces of the ceiling fall and it’s this whole epic scene. So that one scene in the film became the whole inspiration from the joint.”

Lupe also noted that a line in a freestyle also sparked the idea to call the album Drill Music In Zion and said that he was forced to commit to it at that point.

You can check out Lupe’s interview with SiriusXM above.

The Best Rap Verses of 2022 (So Far)

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  • Lil Baby, “In A Minute”


  • Reason, “1st Quarter”


  • Ransom, “Circumstances”


  • Young Dro, “Here On In”


  • Dom Kennedy, “CORSA”


  • Leikeli47, “Carry Anne”


  • Nick Grant, LA Leakers Freestyle


  • Chance the Rapper, “The Highs & The Lows”


  • Denzel Curry, “The Ills”


  • Omeretta the Great, “Sorry Not Sorry”


  • Vince Staples, “The Beach”


  • BabyTron, “Manute Bol”


  • billy woods, “Remorseless”


  • Nicki Minaj, “Blick Blick”


  • Quelle Chris, “Nynex”


  • Lupe Fiasco, “Ms Mural”


  • 21 Savage, “Jimmy Cooks”


  • Navy Blue, “So Tired You Can’t Stop Dreaming”


  • Conway the Machine, “Tyson vs Ali”


  • JID, “Home (Remix)”


  • Benny the Butcher, “10 More Commandments”


  • Jay-Z, “Neck & Wrist”


  • Pusha-T, “Just So You Remember”


  • Cardi B, “Shake It”


  • Tyler, the Creator, “Cash In Cash Out”


  • J. Cole, “Johnny P’s Caddy”


  • Che Noir, “Communion”


  • Kendrick Lamar, “Mother I Sober”


  • Malice, “I Pray For You”


  • Drake, “Churchill Downs”