Back in 2007, Kanye West dropped his Can’t Tell Me Nothing mixtape which featured Lupe Fiasco and Pharrell, aka CRS, on a mashup between the three rappers and the title track off Thom Yorke’s solo album, The Eraser. The mixture of styles/genres on that song, “US Placers,” worked out brilliantly, but Fiasco is back for some more samples from Yorke and company and this one doesn’t work quite as well.
Fiasco released his first in a series of upcoming mixtapes yesterday entitled Enemy Of The State: A Love Story, in which he spits brand new rhymes over tracks by the likes of Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Clipse, Slaughterhouse, Timbaland, and Radiohead. I’m not sure what it is about Fiasco’s freestyling over Radiohead’s epic Kid A track “The National Anthem” that I’m not feeling, but I’ll let you be the judge:
Download the full mixtape here (via 2dopeboyz) or grab just “The National Anthem” here.