Comments on: Lupe Fiasco: Food & Liquor

By: LMXV

LMXV — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:16:21 +0000

Like usual, hip hop and materialism.

By: ceasebreath

ceasebreath — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:17:55 +0000

I think the work is dope and think that Chuck Anderson did a wicked job on the cover, when it was released 3 years ago.

Commercial or non-commercial, It’s just imagery that is targeted to a certain audience, and maybe it’s not for everyone but those who understand or appreciate to it, have a relationship with it.

By: cenzi

cenzi — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:56:03 +0000

If you REALLY want to get specific, why don’t you learn Dakota? Or Blackfoot? if you live in America. Land thieves.

Second, the visuals tell a story, and if the story is not correctly comprehended, then, as Chuck has already said, the fault falls on the marketing team. And note that I said team and not just the graphic artist, who I follow regularly and admire very much. But I guess he just fell on this one, I and will help him out by laying blame on the record company, the marketing team and Lup himself, as well as Chuck.

I wonder how many of you are actually hiphop heads and have “studied” hiphop… or are you all more interested in the “graphics”???

By: Clare

Clare — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:23:45 +0000

I agree with LarsEfx. Knowing english has nothing to do with having an opinion on America.

I dont think It’s a “revolting” album cover though. It’s not great, but it’s not terrible. Nothing special. It’s just blah.

Bad type though.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:10:22 +0000

@ to the negative,

If you have to research the artist and graphic designers in order to appreciate a “great piece of art,” I would question how great that art really is.

By: to the negative

to the negative — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:50:47 +0000

some of people are simply ignorant. please do a little research about an artist and the graphic designers that are responsible for creating great pieces of art before commenting on any album design.

By: tuffghost

tuffghost — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:52:10 +0000

isn’t it supposed to be hyperbolic? mr. fiasco is way into his anime and videogames, it seemed to me like he was trying to emulate that over-the-top vibe. i mean, he’s holding a goddamn katana on the back! its all kitsch.

i thought it was pretty funny.

By: LarsEfx

LarsEfx — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:03:29 +0000

So now you can’t have an oppinion on america, if you can’t write english perfectly? That’s lame.

By: J Sheehy

J Sheehy — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:40:10 +0000

Punctuation too.

By: Matt Z

Matt Z — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:15:29 +0000

album cover sucks but the album itself is amazing, cmon theres tons of good albums with bad covers. and cenzi learn english before u start dissin America

By: cenzi

cenzi — Thu, 15 May 2008 01:21:34 +0000

I agree. its absolutely revolting. the commercialness of the product placement make me think that tis is a vile product for American greedy “want want want”’s

By: mo-MAN

mo-MAN — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:47:32 +0000

This cover is awful.
It could have been saved if it not had small photoshopped objects floating around Lupe, and had a good choice of font with less glow placed in a better position. There are better ways to reflect all your interests than have them as material items floating around you.