Lupe Fiasco eulogized his own relevance in a Billboard interview earlier this week, saying, “You have a Kendrick Lamar and a J. Cole and the other people who are the new Lupes. I don’t have the same lingo. I don’t sip lean or smoke weed. I can’t compete with a Wiz Khalifa for the attention of a 12-year-old.” That may be true, but from the sounds of “Mural,” the latest drop from his upcoming Tetsuo & Youth album, he’s still got some tricks up his sleeve.
