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Lasers

Lupe Fiasco

Lasers

Third hip-hop album from Chicago rapper and record producer

ADM rating[?]

5.3

Label
Atlantic
UK Release date
07/03/2011
US Release date
08/03/2011
  1. 8.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    Fiasco stands tall as an counter-revolutionary leader for the burned out and the damned
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  2. 8.0 |   FasterLouder

    If this is what he sounds like when he’s being held back, I can’t wait to hear him get free
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  3. 8.0 |   FasterLouder

    Full of catchy hooks, big production, and Lupe Fiasco in one of his most out-spoken and blunt forms
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  4. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Left-field bombast
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  5. 6.7 |   A.V. Club

    Much of Lasers is slathered in synthesizers, giving it an au courant hip-hop sound that may not age well
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  6. 6.0 |   BBC

    Lupe remains a singular hip hop voice
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  7. 6.0 |   No Ripcord

    He still proves rap can be insightful and exploratory sans the ego. But the album is weakened by the label’s attempt to creatively mute its production
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  8. 5.0 |   Slant Magazine

    It's clear that Lasers has misfired, and that Lupe's revolution looks more improbable than inevitable
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  9. 4.9 |   Beats Per Minute

    This is the absolute worst-case scenario of what can happen when commerce is placed above art
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  10. 4.0 |   NME

    Walks a fine line between conscious hip-hop and sleepwalking
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  11. 4.0 |   The Independent

    While his flow has a nice bounce and monotonal glide, too many tracks end with one wondering what exactly he's said, if anything at all
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  12. 4.0 |   The Guardian

    It's occasionally likable, sometimes excruciating and rarely special
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  13. 3.0 |   Pitchfork

    You can't knock him for trying something new, but the tools he should be using - his rubbery wordplay, thoughtful commentary, sheer love of the art form - get ditched, with nothing interesting to replace them
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  14. 1.0 |   PopMatters

    My main goal from this point onwards remains to never hear Lasers in its entirety again. Download Enemy of the State, a free mixtape released by Lupe last summer
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