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Flashback: Lupe Fiasco // Kick, Push

Man this song takes me back. I was twelve years old and doing a first year music presentation on my favourite type of music for my crazy music teacher. I chose urban music, and made this whole presentation on Hip-Hop and R&B, with the chavviest fonts you’ve ever seen. It’s hilarious looking back on it now, but what can I say….I was twelve.

Before I had an ipod and a music library in 2007, I had to download three songs off Itunes for my music project. Along with Sergio Mendes & Black Eyed Peas “Mas Que Nada” and Bow Wow & Ciara’s “Like You”, I downloaded Lupe Fiasco’s “Kick, Push” to put on that powerpoint. I burnt those songs onto a CD and listened to them non-stop in the car, as I often did due to the small amount of music I had.

Looking back this is still an amazing track. With jazzy strings and horns over a heavy drum bassline, “Kick, Push” was certainly something different back in 2006. It had a very lo-fi Hip-Hop feel, with elements of trip-hop and lounge making it a lot more subdued than most of the music out there. Plus lyrically, this track was like nothing I’d ever heard. It wasn’t wholly materialistic like so much mid 2000s commercial rap (anyone else remember J-Kwon?), plus it dealt with a subject which was very removed from rap back then.

I’ve had many a skateboarding phase during my childhood, so I guess it related to me on some level….or at least I liked to think it related to me, considering I was completely crap when it came to skating. Nevertheless, this song was way ahead of its time, and would no doubt fit into the alternative hip-hop scene which is more prevalent now than ever. It’s a pity that teacher never remembered to let me do that music presentation, but who knows, maybe that was for the best?

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