Lupe Fiasco – The Cool Hoodie

Description

Every legend needs a villain. Lupe wrote a whole album about his.

December 18, 2007. Lupe Fiasco comes off Food & Liquor and takes one song from it — “The Cool,” the story of a hustler shot down and dug back up out of the grave — and builds a full concept album around it. The Cool, The Streets, The Game. Characters, not metaphors. “Superstar” with Matthew Santos went everywhere, but the heads know the real jewels: “Hip-Hop Saved My Life,” “Paris, Tokyo,” and “Dumb It Down,” a direct shot at everyone who told him to rap simpler.

This was Chicago conscious rap at its most ambitious — skateboard kid turned allegory architect, a sequel record nobody asked for that turned out to be the one people still argue about. The art on this hoodie pulls straight from that mythology: the skeletal hand, the octopus, the locked heart, the gold Lupe sigil sitting dead center, and “THE COOL” lettered like an old occult seal. If you know, you know.

Product Details

• Premium Gildan 18500 Heavy Blend Hoodie — 50/50 cotton/polyester
• 8.0 oz weight, classic loose fit
• Double-needle stitching at neckline, shoulders, armholes, cuffs and waistband
• Double-lined hood with matching drawstring
• Pouch pocket and ribbed cuffs/waistband with spandex
• Available in Black, Navy, and Chocolate

For the heads who knew Michael Young History before the skateboard ever hit the radio. For the ones who still run “Hip-Hop Saved My Life” back when things get heavy. For the fans who never dumbed it down. For you.