While we were all enjoying seconds and thirds of our Thanksgiving feasts, Lupe Fiasco and Vado dropped some new music for their fans. As two artists on the complete opposite of the spectrum, the ever perspective rapping Lupe gave some sight into the more political and religion aspects of music while Vado kept it all Harlem and New York with features from Fabolous, Raekwon, Jae Millz, and others.  Download links below and then view the tracklists for the mixtapes after the jump.

• Lupe Fiasco – Friend of The People (Mixtape)
• Vado – Slime Flu 2 (Mixtape)

1. What’s Poppin’
2. Tales from The Cotton Club
3. SLime Anthem
4. Louis V Bag
5. OK Y’all feat. Fabolous
6. NY Ride
7. I See You (Black People)
8. Keep It Goin’ feat. Young Chris
9. U Know What It Is
10. Bed Piss feat. Raekwon
11. All The Drama
12. I Got That (Frankie Lymon) feat. Jae Millz
13. Somebody Gotta Die feat. Paul Cain & Freck Billionaire
14. Paid In Full
15. Ms. SLime Booty (freestyle)
16. All I Know
17. I Need U feat. Remo The Hitmaker

Lupe and Skylar Grey present the music video to Words I Never Said.  I’m surprised this video just came out in relation to how long the single has been surfacing around for now.  Better late than never though.

Last night Lupe Fiasco hit the stage at New York City’s Webstar Hall for his official Lasers album release show.  The album is in stores now so make sure to hit iTunes and purchase a copy! A performance of Words I Never Said is above and Superstar is after the jump.

Source – The LupE.N.D.

March 8th Lupe Fiasco’s long awaited Lasers album comes out.  There’s only 12 tracks but sometimes the shorter the better.  Features include Sarah Green, Skylar Grey, Trey Songz, MDMA, John Legend, and others.  Check out the tracklist below:

01. Letting Go (Feat. Sarah Green)
02. Words I Never Said (Feat. Skylar Grey)
03. Till I Get There
04. I Don’t Wanna Care Right Now (Feat. MDMA)
05. Out Of My Head (Feat. Trey Songz)
06. The Show Goes On
07. Beautiful Lasers, (Two Ways) (Feat. MDMA)
08. Coming up (Feat. MDMA)
09. State Run Radio (Feat. Matt Mahaffey)
10. Break The Chain (Feat. Eric Turner & Sway)
11. All Black Everything
12. Never Forget You (Feat. John Legend)

losers, Scan With Red Laser

Shouts to them 2dopeboyz for putting together (properly tagged and zipped into one file) this collection of Kanye’s G.O.O.D. Fridays songs together.  They did it earlier this week but I just came across it now.  If you’ve slacked on your weekly Friday Yeezy and friends fix, then get the complete collection here.  The only song that’s missing from this project is Christmas In Harlem, as it was released after this compilation was made.  Download link and tracklist is below:

• Kanye West – G.O.O.D. Fridays (Collection) (Compiled by 2dopeboyz)

01 Power Remix f. Jay-Z & Swizz Beatz
02 Runaway Love (rmx) f. Justin Bieber & Raekwon
03 Devil In a New Dress
04 Good Friday f. Common, Pusha T, KiD CuDi, Big Sean & Charlie Wilson
05 Lord Lord Lord f. Mos Def, Swizz Beatz, Raekwon & Charlie Wilson
06 So Appalled f. Jay-Z, RZA, Pusha T, CyHi Da Prynce & Swizz Beatz
07 Christian Dior Denim Flow f. KiD CuDi, Pusha T, John Legend, Lloyd Banks & Ryan Leslie
08 Don’t Stop f. Lupe Fiasco & Pharrell
09 Take One for the Team f. Keri Hilson, Pusha T & CyHi Da Prynce
10 Don’t Look Down f. Mos Def, Lupe Fiasco & Big Sean
11 The Joy f. Pete Rock, Jay-Z, Charlie Wilson, Curtis Mayfield & KiD CuDi
12 Looking For Trouble f. Pusha T, CyHi Da Prynce, Big Sean & J. Cole
13 Chain Heavy f. Talib Kweli & Consequence

I hope more people are hearing this song and taking notice because this is as great as a single I think Lupe Fiasco could put out without “giving in” to his label.

“We went on the Glow in the Dark tour and it was just kinda like, maybe, maybe not, let’s do a record, let’s see … so, ‘Don’t Stop’ is kinda one of the records from that creative process a couple years ago,” Lupe said, adding that West’s bars may have been updated. “The song is two years old. I think ‘Ye verse might be a little recent but I don’t know.” (via MTV)

After some rants on Twitter, some fans protesting, and record label’s being stubborn – a positive mutual agreement finally came between Lupe Fiasco and Atlantic Records to release the highly anticipated Lasers album on March 3rd, 2011.  Any Lasers news is good news and this one came straight from Lupe’s blog.

Lupe Fiasco’s much-anticipated new album “Lasers” hits stores and online Tuesday, March 8th 2011. The first single will premiere on Tuesday, October 26th right here on LupeFiasco.com first! #GenerationLasers you ready? Let’s go!

Thoughts on this kid?  Diggy rocks out with his new Airborne mixtape hosted by DJ Spinking with production by Boi-1da, Kane Beatz, Black The Beast, and others along with features from Lupe Fiasco, Pharrell Williams, Chris Brown, Colin Munroe, Raekwon, and more.  Download link and tracklist is below:

• Diggy – Airborne (Mixtape) (Hosted by DJ Spinking) | (alternative download link)

1. AirBorne feat. Wynter Gordon (Intro) (prod. Black The Beast)
2. Thinkin’ Bout U feat. Bei Maejor (prod. T- Minus)
3. Big Bad World feat. Colin Munroe (prod. Black The Beast)
4. As I am feat. Shianne Phillips (prod. Black The Beast)
5. Put You On feat. Chris Brown (prod. Black The Beast)
6. Super Hero Music feat. Raekwon (prod. Boi-1da)
7. Oh Yeah feat. Lupe Fiasco & Pharrell (prod. Omen & Black The Beast)
8. AirPlane Skit
9. No Gravity feat. K2 (prod. Black The Beast)
10. You Got Me Now feat. Jacob Latimore (prod. Kane Beatz)
11. The Vision feat. Ghostwridah & Eric B (prod. Neako)
12. This Feelin’ (Outro) (prod. Deputy)
13. Great Expectations feat. Bei Maejor (Bonus) (prod. Black The Beast)