New Music: Lupe Fiasco “Around My Way (Freedom Ain
May 21, 2012 @ 7:32 PM EDT
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With Pete Rock & CL Smooth’s “T.R.O.Y.” sample, Lupe gets politically correct with his new single off Food & Liquor 2. Produced by
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YES YES YES YES YES
Lupe Back. #FNFUP
DOPE!!!!
…….AND ANOTHER ROYALTY CHECK CLEARS FOR PETE ROCK AND CL!!!! HA!!!!
DON’T HATE ON MY OPINION!!!!
this is the Lupe I love. Has me excited for FL2 now.
YES!!! lupe u back! killin it. this is gonna be a hit
amaya are u fuckin serious, this shit better not be happening, u can’t recreate classic songs like TROY.
fuck outta here with that bullshit
mac DIESEL, i disappointed my dawg….
tight. even the artwork.
im a big lupe fan.this just doesnt have replay value to me..
can’t wait til the hear the whole album!!
YES! this is what im talking about. Dope song. Hopefully FL2 sounds more like this and not LASERS. lol @ Pete Rock twitter’s rant.
Nice!
FIRE!!!!!
I CANT BELIEVE HE SPIT OVER THE CLASSIC THEY REMINISCE OVER YOU!!!!
DONT YOU HATE ON MY OPINION!!!!!
@ SYB
LUPE DID HIS THING ON THIS!!!! U KNOW I BE SHITTIN’ ON NIGGAS FUCKIN’ AROUND WIT CLASSIC BEATS!!!!! BUT HE BLESSED A CLASSIC BEAT!!!!
DON’T HATE ON MY OPINION!!!!
I like this but I wonder what the single will be. There is no way this is he single! Atlantic won’t allow that.
He ain’t lying tho!
Don’t get me wrong, Lu’s verses on this are phenomenal.
BUT
1. There are some classic hip hop samples you shouldn’t touch (unless you completely flip it) & the producer didn’t.
2. This cannot be a single cuz it’s not getting anywhere near radio.
@ M.T.
I JUST READ THEM PETE ROCK TWEETS!!!! NIGGA IS DEFINITELY NOT HAPPY!!!! HA!!!! IF HE’S THAT PISSED, I KNOW FOR SURE LUPE DIDN’T CONTACT PETE ROCK ABOUT USIN’ THE BEAT!!!! OUTTA RESPECT, HE SHOULDA ASKED PETE ROCK FIRST!!!! CUZ IT’S A PERSONAL RECORD FOR PETE ROCK AND CL!!!!
DON’T HATE ON MY OPINION!!!!
Oh Pete Rock said the exact same thing.
i agree with him completely. The producer should be ashamed.
lupe save hip hop for me
Real hip hop shit, but should have used an original beat, you cant fuck with a classic
Pete rock act like he never sampled. The people he sampled could feel the exact same way
IT IS RARE MY BOSS mac DIESAL COSIGNS A NEW SONG!!!
…. IF mac GIVES YOU A COSIGN YOU MUST BE DOING SOMETHING RIGHT!!!! BUT LUPE SHOULD HAVE CONTACTED PETE ROCK FIRST!!! TROY IS A LEGENDARY SONG AND BEAT !!!!
DONT YOU HATE ON MY OPINION!!!!!
Well fuck you then Pete Rock. Its a new era get with it, yes its dope why else would somebody want to sample it? Whats not pleasing to you is pleasing someone else. If everything should stay in the past then what you got a twitter for? And you better have no smartphone neither. Yall so hung on only back in the day shit is hiphop, times change, things change. get with it if not, shut the fuck up and stay in the past. bullshit.
Pete Rock. Much Respect. but chill the fuck out…its homage, niggaz love the beat man, soon as it started i was like kill it LU! and he did…making the OGs look bad again smh – @ablacktv
micah says:
Pete rock act like he never sampled. The people he sampled could feel the exact same way
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THE SAMPLES HE PRODUCED WERE CLEARED!!!! SO OBVIOUSLY THE ARTISTS HE SAMPLED WERE OKAY WIT HIM SAMPLING THEIR MUSIC!!!! MAKE YA BRAIN WORK, KID!!!!
DON’T HATE ON MY OPINION!!!!
Definitely feeling this track… Lupe never fails to impress me
This is classic Lupe here, the GOAT is finally coming out to release the true shit. I do get the Pete Rock disagreement, the beat it EXACTLY the same as the TROY song. Producer shouldve flipped it completely, but come on Pete, what other nigga would you want to spit over this sample? Aint nobody like Lupe, and Lupe killed this shit man, aint nothing about it. Enjoy the good music fam
Didn’t Pete rock get sample from large pro… To dedicate dude that died when they were kids when heavy d was there?
Hot track!!!
Pete Rock talking about originality? his whole career is based off sampling other peoples music! The Irony.. Niggas cry about there being no “real hip hop” Lupe drops this and now its still a problem. Make up your fucking mind.
So pete rock is made that another producer sampled the same shit he did? Dude, u aint write the OG track, u flipped it. U got no right to claim ownership of that sample soul brother
love Lupe but gotta side with P.R. T.R.O.Y. is a CLASSIC, not to be touched
lazy beat
Ya, he wont over this a LONG time ago…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B98_o_BGIEE
much better back in the day
I could understand being offended if the record was a club song by Wiz Khalifa or something. But it’s a true conscious Lupe fiasco track. Hip hop is about sampling. The people will love this song and more people will go and learn the original. Everybody wins.
IT’S NOT ABOUT THE SAMPLING U FUCKIN’ CLOWNS!!!! IT’S ABOUT LUPE NOT ASKIN’ PETE ROCK TO USE THE BEAT!!!! U NIGGAS ARE THAT FUCKIN’ STUPID??!!!
…..AND TO BE HONEST, WUT THE FUCK DID SIMONSAYZ & B-SIDET PRODUCE ANYWAY??!!! THEY DIDN’T HEAR ‘EM ADD ANYTHING TO THE BEAT AT ALL!!!! UNLESS MY HEARING IS FUCKED UP!!!!
DON’T HATE ON MY OPINION!!!!
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COSIGN MY BOSS!!!!
DONT YOU HATE ON MY OPINION!!!!
THE SAMPLES HE PRODUCED WERE CLEARED!!!! SO OBVIOUSLY THE ARTISTS HE SAMPLED WERE OKAY WIT HIM SAMPLING THEIR MUSIC!!!! MAKE YA BRAIN WORK, KID!!!!
DON
Please…Pete rock is just mad cuz he doesn’t know the producers who flipped it. If someone like Kanye did this same exact thing, Pete rock wouldn’t give two shits. Hell he’d be all over its balls to try and get some exposure for himself. Similar to that The Joy record.
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Pete Rock is a major hypocrite. How can someone that made a career out of sampling other people’s music get mad that somebody sampled his song which is also composed of a sample from someone else? “Rap’s an art form, you don’t own no loops”-Guru
Mac’s assistant dick eatin’…LMAO
its good hip hop at the end of the day…fuck the politics…and procedures, its good shit.
Pete Rock need to kill himself. Nigga how you gon’ get mad at someone sampling something you sample from a song a person sampled from another person? LOL Nigga’s egos these days. SMH
@ London Black
GET WUT YOU’RE SAYIN’ BUT IT REALLY HAS NOTHIN’ TO DO WIT SAMPLING!!!! IT’S ABOUT THE USE OF THE SONG THAT WAS PERSONAL TO PETE ROCK!!!! FROM THE TWEETS BY PETE ROCK, LUPE DIDN’T CONTACT PETE ROCK ABOUT USIN’ THE BEAT!!!!
DON’T HATE ON MY OPINION!!!!
There are certain records that simply shouldnt be touch. Even though Pete Rock may have sampled another artist for that track, he feels that this particular song shouldnt have been touched. Thats why he feels the need to speak for his artistic integrity. Niggas need to realize and understand this before blindly calling a someone a hypocrite or making ignorant statements.
“Mac
So unoriginal. Lupe Fiasco is a flop, he should retire. He is getting lamer and lamer each album. SMH. My condolences goes out to HIP-HOP.
@ mac DEISAL
YOU DONT HATE TO EXPLAIN YOURSELF TO THESE FUCKIN CLOWNS!!!!!
DONT YOU HATE ON MY OPINION!!!!!
Lupe killed it. Hook is dope.
Not feeling it. Gotta side with Pete Rock because the producer was lazy on this one. It sounds exactly like the original. Should’ve been more original and I think Rock would’ve been okay with it. I think that’s why he’s mad because it lacks originality. It should’ve had a modern spin on it. No way Kanye would’ve sampled T.R.O.Y. and not put a spin on it. Not really feeling Lupe on it either. Sounds generic to me.
DON’T HATE MY OPINION!
i like the lyrics but, troy is ingrained in my brain. i don’t like how the sample is flipped.
http://www.datpiff.com/SHAMGAR-Im-A-Bad-Boy-mixtape.283593.html
Wack…
LUPEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Lupe A+
Producer…I don’t mind it at all, but then I didn’t do the original and have a deep emotional attachment to it. It’s impossible for me to put myself in Pete Rock’s shoes, so I’m a stay out of it.
FukUrOpinion says:
DON
You young guys do not read or pay attention very well. This is not about Old School Hip-Hop vs New School Hip-Hop. This is about respecting our craft, and respecting those who came before you.
The producer of this T.R.O..Y. knock off cant be a true Hip-Hop cat, because he wouldnt of touched this particular beat if he was. Its not the sample in question, its him remaking the same beat.
Pete Rock made T.R.O.Y. when his best friend died. That song was to let him know he will never be forgotten.
Its sad that you guys truly dont understand why Pete Rock is upset.
Lupe has always been mediocre. I don’t know why so many people like him, guess he rocking their fav brand or something because his music is mad weak. K. Dot’s joint today is amazing.. Lupe, take notes.
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damn…. this is the dope shit! the sample i can feel but, damn lupe back with them lyrics man….
the homie killed this shit
why is pete rock hating on lupe? lupe already rapped over this song earlier in his carreer *nudge* dope boy *nudge**
this shit is wack
T.R.O.Y. was already remade in ’08 with Wale and Lupe. Plus, if the song is so dear to his heart why did he sell the rights to have it featured in a video game (Madden ’12)?
Rappers always jack for beats, nothing new. And you can’t talk about originality when you sampled the song. Bottom line, Pete Rock, make a song better than TROY. It’s only been 20 years.
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PETE ROCK NEEDS TO PULL HIS SKIRT UP LIKE AMAYA. mac, STOP SUCKING LUPE’S DICK. WE ONLY WANT LASERS.
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Wow, shame on Lupe for using this beat. Complete garbage.
maan, I’m a big Pete Rock fan… but he’s tripping. Sampling is sampling. And as a matter of fact, 9th chopped up a piece of Troy on The Listening. Damn, people just get bitter with age lol… btw… Pete Rock is the f’n man. One of the dopest to ever do it. Still sounds bitter though lol
If he sampled a part of the song….i’d be aight with it
its basically the same fuckin beat. FUCK THAT i aint down with that
Lupe killed it ..what the f is pete rock talkin about? Lupe did a great job
the one time lupe does some hip hop shit….smh
NO ROYALTY CHECK for Pete. This is a sample. The publishing goes to to the owner of the original sample only. They did not sample pete rocks & cl smooth’s record. they took the sample same as pete rock did.
Lupe killed dis. It needed to come back. Sorry Pete.
I expected better shit. He sampled too much of the T.R.O.Y. sound so much he fucked up the whole song. It would of been ill if he would of done it just at the start of the song for 20 seconds at least then change shit up.
FACT.. there was a conf call today with Dj Woo Kid and Lupe.. He asked Lupe about it and Lupe said that he got the blessing from Pete Rock to re-make the record.
obviously he lied.
mac DIESEL says:
Monday, May 21 2012 at 9:21 PM EST
FukUrOpinion says:
DON
O YEA
DONT YOU HATE ON MY OPINION!!!!!
Pete Rock is an overly emotional fuckboy.
dope. Everyone ignore mac diesal .. hes a hoe lookin for attention
Fuck T. Roy, Fuck Heavy D, Fuck Pete Rock, Fuck Mt. Vernon NY.
This is new therefore everything before it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter if it’s a wack hack version of the original. It’s okay Lupe didn’t just go over over the original.
Somebody should take this record, and get Lil Wayne, Drake & Nicki Minaj on it so it could be doper than his… because it’s newer and has more relevant artists on it. That’s how the rules work now right?
Lupe is such a fucking fraud. Chicago… clean up on Isle 4. Get this clown outta here.
It’s not about him doing the track/sample over… it’s about the producer hacking the shit and Lupe a so called hip hop head not acknowledging shit.
I mean if that’s what you fucking new faggots are into? No wonder why you hoe ass new niggas can’t get no good original movies. Yall are into crappy remakes.
HAHAHAHAHAH. Get money. Lets recycle everything badly and sell it to these fucking fags growing up today.
This is exactly what we need right now in hip-hop. Lupe The GOD Thank You 4 saving hip-hop.
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I see what Pete Rock meant with the producer not doing much different, and he showed he respected Lupe. But he should also chill and realize that he sampled a sampled sample. And that happens always in hip-hop. Hopefully, Rock makes some gwap on this to help calm his nerves. Talking bout he the best ever. Who knows? He may be.
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He’s sad because that song is so special. Tom Scott gave him the blessing to sample those horns.
T-Roy is a real person who died… the song is an all time Hip Hop classic. Lupe’s people didn’t get the blessing from Pete
Atlantic records is releasing this as Lupe’s first single… where instead, he should have just rapped over the original on a mixtape.. not re-working it to an official single
this is the shit!
@ dragon
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DON’T HATE ON MY OPINION!!!!
It’s one thing to flip a sample someone else uses. It’s another thing to COMPLETELY COPY someone else’s beat. This shit sucks
Man we might as well jam to this new Rozay http://bit.ly/KvYcoZ
Of course the lyrics are dope, but Lupe is old enough to know better. I would understand if he wasn’t old enough to have a point of reference like some of these commenters but Lupe knows how emotional that shit was and now he’s attempting to build on sacred burial ground. The producer used the sample in the context of TROY, when there’s a million and one ways to flip that Jefferson Airplane sample. He could have grabbed it at the end or further up, it’s a whole saxophone solo for christ’s sake. Nah he grabbed that shit just like Pete did, so it would be reminiscent of TROY, no pun intended.
Just apologize get an original track from Pete himself and move on.
FTW
In case you haven’t figured it out yet… Pete Rock’s mad because he’s completely irrelevant in the game… Just like all the other artists who laid the foundation for this music. Unfortunately the industry hasn’t emphasized the importance of our history to the younger generations. As long as the kids are buying whatever bullshit the industry is selling them, it’s all good…
Saying Pete Rock is irrelevant in hip hop is just some stupid shit to type with no supporting argument.
The Joy is irrelevant? Really?
most of you are complete dumbasses..trying to discredit Pete Rock because he is not a fan of someone re-creating his beat is ignorant. Lupe went in on the verse but using the beat like that lacks originality period. I know Pete Rock sampled the horns but he turned it into a classic hi-hop beat..that shit they just did is a rip off in the highest degree and for what? Its like someone remaking Jay-Z Hard knock Life beat. We know where the sample came from but why the fuck would you remake it? some shit should go untouched out of respect. I’m a young cat so its definitely not about old school vs new school.. its these new niggas with great aspirations but lack of respect that say and do anything.. I still fucks with Lupe .. He a positive brother ..just trying to make good music
still the producer could’ve flipped this shit…. but, all in all the lupe we all luv is back on them fatal lyrics mannnnnn!
the homie killed this shit
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absolute wack, no originality. Not even worth a place on a free mixtape. People who like this, really need to get a life – suckers.
@MacDiesel do you have a life? If not get one. You didn’t create that phrase so FUK UR OPINION! Reply to that troll
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I only hear T.R.O.Y. when I play this record. The producers didn’t flip this sample much differently which goes without saying. The verses are great. The hook is lazy. Swing and a miss.
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This Beat is Classic But no beat is untouchable if done right, nad respect for pete rock But dude did you really think this beat would never be rapped over again, be happy that it was bleesed and waka flocka didnt rap over it
MUTHAFUCKAS SAMPLE MUSIC ALL THE TIME!!! WHAT YOU MEAN?!!! …. PLUS, IT’S ABOUT THE MESSAGE!!!! …. FOCUS ON THAT, NOT THE MIND HYNOTIZING MELODY OF THE INSTRUMENTS MORONS!!!…. HE THE ONLY RAPPER OUT THERE RIGHT NOW WITH SUBSTANCE. AND HE KILLED THAT SHYT!!!!…. FNF UP !!!!!!!
AND IS PETE ROCK GOTTA PROBLEM WITH IT, THEN HE NEED TO REMIX HIS OWN SHYT THEN AND TRY TO GET LUPE, BUT CEE THAT AIN’T GONNA HAPPEN! AND I KNOW IT!… OLD ASS LOL!!!
FNF UUUUUUPPPPP!!!!!!
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FukUrOpinion says:
Tuesday, May 22 2012 at 1:58 PM EST
@MacDiesel do you have a life? If not get one. You didn
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It’s one thing if someone garbage raps over this beat. But Lupe has GOAT potential if he can get some good production (i.e. T.R.O.Y.). If I was Pete Rock, I’d be more pissed if someone weak tried to do it. Lupe killed this shit though
im glad you see lupe as one of teh goat , at least he isnt as underestimated as yelawolf
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PETE IS A LEGEND … HE GOTTA RIGHT TO SAY WHAT HE WANTS, BUT LUPE PROLLY DID THAT AS A TRIBUTE … AND HE TALKIN BOUT ORIGINAL … DIDN’T HE JUST LOOP A SA PLE????????
lol pete rock is heated.. but at the end of the day this producer used the same sample pete rock used. THAT IS NOT ILLEGAL! I know the song is dear to his heart but give me a break.
lmfao joke? Pete was right. f this. lupe’s lost.
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Ok, I can see how people are pissed but come on. Look at hip-hop. Nearly every classic in old school hip-hop has already been ruined and you people decide to stop and complain about Lupe? Not some overly exaggerating mainstream rapper like Jay-Z or something? I honestly feel like Lupe is saving hip-hop, or at least reshaping it. He killed this song. Listen to the lyrics and tell me someone like Lil Wayne says realer sh*t. Just saying.
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