Lupe Fiasco is a rap favourite on The Mahogany Blog.

He’s ultimately one of the freshest breaths of fresh air in the rap game for a long, long time and I can’t wait for his new release. Until then we rely on the experts to rework his current music as they see fit.

This rework dropped into my inbox earlier in the week and I’m instantly in love with it.

The legendary Bassnectar has twiddled, tweaked, fiddled and played with an acapella of Kick Push and produced Land Of The Lupes.

He told us a little bit about the mix.

“I took the beat of a long-overdue unreleased tune called “Stretch Reflex” and melted it together with the synths and melodies from another song that was supposed to be on Underground Communication, but ended up getting saved for later. It was written as a pensive homage to the dead, the original melodics sound like a black metal song but in this version they have kind of a nice 1990’s Orb or FSOL feel to them…that sound will never get old for me! Then i took some of the prettier melodies from that song and mixed them with a Lupe Fiasco acapella (i looooove his voice) and it became one of my favorite tunes to close a party with.”

Bassnectar – Land Of The Lupes – download

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