Diandra Reviews It All- Lupe Fiasco + Kaelin Ellis Create A Sonic “House”

Ever look up at the sky and wonder how many generations of people looked up at that same sky…. wondering…. dreaming….hoping….and crying just like you? Sometimes, I feel like humanity confuses being small for being less. We are small in terms of the cosmos and even our own human history. Yet, the difference between where humanity stands in terms of the universe and its own history is that the latter is created by us while the former is what created us.

For being a 5 track EP, House has Lupe Fiasco asking really big questions about life and human existence that one would save for their best friend after half a bottle of Henny. To me, a good friend makes you laugh and think: cracking a joke and expanding your mind. Thus, from the beginning of House, Lupe treats listeners like a good friend; using his lauded wits, as a lyricist, to make you smile at how he connects words to then ponder on how he flourishes meaning.
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Fiasco takes a “trickle-up” dynamic to his verses trying to see how individual interactions match their community, society, history, and then galaxy. When you think of the earth as your home, it is not hard to be like, Lupe Fiasco, and think it is a little run-down. Honestly! If someone put the earth on some galactic renter’s site like, Martian Zillow, and had to list the history of this human “home,” I wouldn’t be surprised if we got no alien renters. For God Sake’s! Look at what we are doing to humans/ earthlings in the current rent crisis.

Sonically, I can’t say House is Lupe’s most explorative, experimental sound, but I think that is on purpose. From “Dinosuars” to “Shoes,” Ellis’ soundscape feels like the many textures of chill. It is effortlessly rhythmic; using its ease to allow Lupe Fiasco free range on thoughts that feel perfect for a really good Philosophy Course. To Buy Lupe Fiasco’s House, on July 24, Click Here.