Lupe, Pharrell and Kanye’s CRS to do a full album
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Having already released one song via an online mixtape, CRS (Child Rebel Soldiers), the hip-hop supergroup featuring Lupe Fiasco, Kanye West and Pharrell Williams, is hoping to do an entire album.
“Us Placers,” which samples Thom Yorke’s “The Eraser,” was performed by Fiasco earlier this month during his set at Lollapalooza in Chicago. “Now [our labels are] working it out, whoever is going to pay is going to pay a whole hell of a lot. Everybody is excited, [but] ‘Us Placers’ is the only record we have.” Says Lupe referring to record companies noticing the momentum the track has received from the internet.
Fiasco has pushed back the release of his sophomore album, “Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool,” from October 30 to November 20. Work is continuing on the album with producers from his 1st & 15th camp, including Pro and Soundtrack. Previously, Fiasco had avoided big-name producers (“It’s too expensive,” he says), but “now we’re doing CRS, [so] I can get all the music for free.”
The rapper says he is going to stop releasing mixtapes and may not have many more studio albums in him.
“I’m just wearing down,” he admits. “I’m never doing mixtapes again, not even Internet ones. My whole energy for making hip-hop music is slowing down. I’ve been doing it for seven years. I still don’t think I’m famous. I’ll do what I have to do to promote my next album, but I’m not enthused about doing seven albums. I’ll do my three, and then I am going to keep moving to the next phase of life and maybe grow trees.”
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Kanye West announces tracklisting including CRS (and downplays beef with 50)
This could just be rubbish…
Kanye West reportedly issued a challange to 50 cent during an interview on a radio station last Friday. 50 quickly accepted the challange on a TV appearance saying ” I accept the challenge. Kanye, he’s not going to want to show up. Just don’t be asking me if I am a conscious rapper. I know exactly what I am saying – so I am conscious”
“I don’t have beef with anyone,” West said on MTV. “What am I going to debate about? I’m going to go in the studio and make music. When I heard the thing about the debate, I thought that was the stupidest thing. When my albums drops and 50′s album drops, you’re gonna get a lot of good music at the same time.”
More importantly, Kanye West has announced the tracklisting to his forthcoming record Graduation. The record, featuring collaborations with Mos Def, DJ Premier, Lupe Fiasco, and Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, will arrive on 9/11.
1. “Good Morning”
2. “Homecoming” (Featuring Chris Martin)
3. “Stronger”
4. “Champion”
5. “Good Life” (Featuring T-Pain)
6. “I Wonder”
7. “Even More Broke Phi Broke”
8. “Can’t Tell Me Nothing”
9. “Drunk and Hot Girls” (Featuring Mos Def)
10. “Ev’rything I Am” (Scratches by DJ Premier)
11. “Good Night” (Featuring Mos Def & Al Be)
12. “Big Brother”
13. “Graduation”
14. “The Glory”
15. “CRS” (Featuring Lupe Fiasco and Pharrell)
The last track “CRS” (Featuring Lupe Fiasco and Pharrell) stands for “Child Rebel Soldiers” the supergroup who recorded the track “Us Placers” from Kanye’s mixtape which has been gaining great interest on the internet.
Many are questioning whether 50 Cent’s Curtis will outsell Kanye West’s Graduation. But 50′s ready to bet his career on it.
“They would like to see Kanye West give me a problem because I’ve worked myself into a space where I’ve become the favourite,” says 50.
“Let’s raise the stakes. If Kanye West sells more records than 50 Cent on September 11, I’ll no longer write music. I’ll write music and work with my other artists, but I won’t put out any more solo albums.
“And I bet this, when Kanye West’s sales come in, he’s gonna have a 70% decrease [the second week] ’cause Def Jam is gonna buy records to keep him closer to 50 Cent,” he added. “So watch the first week and then watch the second week. Watch his ass drop off the planet.”
Lupe Fiasco performs new stuff, Us Placers
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Lupe Fiasco debuted three new songs recently (Aug 5) at Lollapalooza, Chicago, including Superstardom, the first single from his upcoming second album. An Oct. 31 release date is probable for his new album Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool, although that date may change.
Fiasco dedicated Superstardom, which features vocalist Matthew Santos, to the Lollapalooza crowd, telling them, “Ya’ll are my superstars. I just want to jump down there and get everybody’s autograph.” The artist also played the new cut Paris, Tokyo.
He also played, interestingly, a snippet of US Placers, the Thom Yorke-sampling song by the supergroup CRS which features Kanye West and Pharrell Williams which has attracted great interest on the internet despite having virtually zero publicity.
Once he’s finished in the studio, Fiasco will perform at the Bumbershoot festival in Seattle in early September.
Raised on the west side of Chicago, Wasalu Muhammad Jaco (Lupe Fiasco) is the youngest of nine brothers and sisters. He came to fame in 2006 following the success of his debut album which received three Grammy nominations. Journalists and weary music fans have dubbed him a “hip-hop saviour.”
However, Lupe says, “I don’t believe I’m the saviour of hip-hop or bringing hip-hop back or anything like that — I just feel like it’s me doing me! I don’t really think I’m doing anything too different. I may be switching it up a little bit, but I really don’t see it like I’m reinventing the wheel.”
Lyrics of Us Placers from CRS
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The sample is taken from Radiohead’s Thom Yorke’s The Eraser from the album of the same name, which is mostly about climate change. The much sampled song has already been remixed twice; once by Ellen Alien and once by Stretch ‘n’ Vern.
It was released on an unofficial mixtape entitled “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” – which also features tracks sampling Daft Punk and Peter Bjorn and John – under the name of ‘CRS’ or ‘Child Rebel Soldier’: the collective name of Lupe, Pharrell and Kanye.
Still no news about any forthcoming releases from the supergroup.
(Feat. Kanye West, Pharrell & Lupe Fiasco)
(Lupe Fiasco)
Yeah, Just a lil bit (just a lil bit) And it goes
Lifestyles of the rich and famous
Bought a big house and a whole lot of rangers
A fresh new couch and a whole lot of trainers
A closet full of clothes and some brand new dangers
And
Some Mexican floral arrangers
A great big TV that’ll entertain us
Some colorful commissions for some high paid painters
Someone to take the wrap so that I stay stainless
And
A new relationship with a banker
Two pinky rings for my manicured fingers
A trained German Shepherd that bark when it’s angered
To watch my possessions and look out for strangers
And
A 50 foot yacht with an anchor
Young supermodel that shall remain nameless
Ups and the downs, the sames and the changes
All the money in the world don’t make it painless (no)
(Chorus)
(But they love it and they love it)
The more you try to erase me
(And they love it and they love it)
The more that I appear, oh
(and they love it and they love it)
The more, the more you try the eraser
The more that You appear
(Kanye West)
(Plain Pat what up?)
Lifestyles of the broke and famous
Let you know how crazy this game is
Look at all the new beautiful faces
At home supermodel, myspaces
Long for their shot on the TV screens
American Idol never seen these dreams
Just last week they want to see ID
Now they got you in VIP, huh?
How many people almost famous
You almost remember what they name is
Like “Hey, didn’t you play in..? No it couldn’t be, quit playin”
I try to keep that balance
After MTV that’s a Real World Challenge
Back on that train
Never to be heard from again…
(Chorus)
(But they love it and they love it)
The more you try to erase me
(And they love it and they love it)
The more that I appear, oh
(and they love it and they love it)
The more, the more you try the eraser
The more that You appear
(Pharrell)
G.R.I.P P.I.M.P
I, any spelling bitch come on that’s me
I bring a burning sensation to the urban eye
Like an eye-drop of Turpentine
You can listen to the serpent, fine
But the earth got gas once it burps its fire
Someone around me they talk about degrees
Not G.H.G, how to cook a quarter ki
Talking all nasal, he ain’t over that cold
No glove scrub, Manny just over that stove
Perfect paradigm
Wrong place wrong time
Should have been Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline
Number one chemist
Look at him no blemish
Egg shell off white like a DuPont finish
Young, dumb, high strung, who could handle us
I wonder how Gods gon’ paint today’s canvasses
Cause who knew that day that man would just
Go to VA with a Tec and spray campuses
What a way to see the cover of Time
I know that nigga wish he was standing in line
To see it….As if he didn’t do it.
(Chorus)
(But they love it and they love it)
The more you try to erase me
(And they love it and they love it)
The more that I appear, oh
(and they love it and they love it)
The more, the more you try the eraser
The more that You appear
Pharrell Williams, Kanye West & Lupe Fiasco supergroup “CRS” details
Some time ago, Lupe Fiasco mentioned in interviews about a “secret project with another superstar rapper and producer”. With the release of Kanye West’s new “Can’t Tell Me Nothin” mixtape, the secret was revealed in the form of a group consisting of Pharell, Kanye, and Lupe called “CRS”.
Originally thought to be including Common, the threesome introduced their first track on West’s new Can’t Tell Me Nothing mixtape, titled “Us Placers”. More work from them is expected in the future.
While in Los Angeles for the 2007 BET awards, Lupe Fiasco opened up to SOHH about his upcoming album, as well as a possible collaborative album.
Lupe revealed that he is hard at work on his second album, which will follow his Grammy nominated debut Food & Liquor, and that he’s looking forward to touring in support of the project.
“Right now I’m working on my next album, called The Cool. It comes out [on] Halloween,” Lupe told SOHH. “I’m excited to get back on the road. We had a real good road experience the past year and a half. I can’t wait to get back out there.”
In addition to his own album, Lupe also confirmed that fans of “Us Placers,” a recent track included on Kanye West’s Can’t Tell Me Nothing mixtape, which features West and Pharrell Williams plus a Thom Yorke sample, may have more music from the trio to look forward to.”It’s a little project that me, Kanye, and Skateboard P sat down and was like, ‘Yo let’s do a group.’ “Us Placers”, was the first record we came out with. Now we sitting down deciding if we really going to go hard or not, but we working on some surprises.”
Whether or not the trio, who have been referred to in media reports as Child Rebel Soldier, will record a full album is still up in the air.
“It depends what it sounds like,” Lupe said. “We gotta make some more records. Everybody is mad busy, Kanye is doing his record, Pharrell’s in the studio, I’m working on my record, so we gonna wait til everything settles down some.”
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