Lupe Fiasco: Deep Cuts

Street-savvy, socially conscious, soulful, and a little avant-garde, Lupe refuses to be pinned down to just one lane. On “Dots & Lines,” he incorporates twangy fiddle and harmonica into raps about sacred geometry, while in “The Cool,” a dead man kicks open his casket to walk his old neighborhood. Fiasco even spits a guest verse about gentrification on “This City” by Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump.