Lupe Fiasco Revives Child Rebel Soldier With New Song ‘Shrink’
Lupe Fiasco has unexpectedly revived his supergroup Child Rebel Soldier by releasing a brand new music titled “Shrink.”
Lupe initially fashioned CRS with Kanye West and Pharrell, although this new observe doesn’t characteristic both Ye or Skateboard P.
“Shrink” prominently samples Radiohead’s Kid A observe “Optimistic,” which is consistent with the unique Child Rebel Soldier ethos of rapping over beats from the long-lasting British rock band.
The music additionally doubles up as additional promo for Lupe’s Samurai! Tour, which kicks off in October and is available in help of his newest album of the identical identify.
The launch comes shortly after Lupe Fiasco introduced that he can be “rebooting” Child Rebel Soldier as a solo enterprise with out Kanye or Pharrell.
“I’m gonna reboot CRS in the next six months, maybe next year,” he stated in an interview with Stereogum. “Tyler, [The Creator] has one of the CRS records. But it’s gonna go back to the original energy, which was me rapping over Radiohead beats.”
He additional defined his concepts for the aspect challenge and the challenges of releasing the music commercially: “It’s this weird relationship, because it’s kind of like, do I put it out as freestyles because I’ll never be able to clear those records? I’ve always wanted to do an album with [Radiohead’s] producer, Nigel Godrich, [so] do I go work with Nigel?
“I know I’m not gonna be able to work with Radiohead and do an album with them; that shit’s pie in the sky. I’ll just go back to that original [vibe], just go back and find those dope loops and samples from Radiohead or their solo records, loop the shit up, and make little beats out of it, and crush with some dope ass lyrics.”
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He continued: “I’ll either do some loosie freestyle shit or a proper tape, get sued for it, and keep it moving. You can take those records, the ‘National Anthem’ record, ‘Us Placers,’ and ‘Animal Pharm,’ as the first three singles. You’ll probably get another five or six. We’ll see.”
Child Rebel Soldier made their debut in 2007 with the critically acclaimed single “Us Placers,” which closely sampled Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke’s “The Eraser.”
Despite hopes of an album, there have been solely two extra releases from the trio — a remix of N.E.R.D.‘s “Everyone Nose” in 2008 and “Don’t Stop!” from Ye’s 2010 G.O.O.D. Fridays sequence — earlier than they disbanded in 2013, with Lupe blaming scheduling points for the shortage of progress on the challenge.
The Chicago native beforehand teased that there’s a vault of unreleased music from their recording classes.
