Video: Lupe Fiasco - The L.A.S.E.R.S. Manifesto

In anticipation for his upcoming record "L.A.S.E.R.S.", breakout Chicago MC Lupe Fiasco has issued the "Manifesto", which is supposedly aiming to illustrate the conscious and transformational path he wants to walk on his new album.

Unattainable as well as lofty and preachy are things that instantly come to mind after I watch this vid, that tries in vain to make people believe that Lupe himself is all about trying to undo the evil that the country is currently entangled in. Pardon me while I laugh hysterically.....

To believe that he is somehow prepared to tackle the monumental issues of race relations, economics and politics that have festered in this country long before he was even born and mightily strike them down one by one with his all encompassing knowledge, is well...it would make a great movie....

Perhaps he will do some good in simply just generating some banter about the issues, but it's hard to take his qualms about "exploitation" and "over-consumption" seriously while he sports 300 dollar shades and designer clothing made in foreign countries, probably by people that are practically slaves....

This propaganda stinks to high heaven of guile posturing to sell records....and since the new generation of Hip-Hoppers seems content in believing that you can wear or listen to a revolution I'm sure this idea will take off.....All I know is that if you are going to issue a manifesto for a rap album that is by default apart of a machine that fuels many of the social injustices you yearn to knock down, it'd better be one hell of an album....

-BIG D O