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Lupe Fiasco In Atlanta Today
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
CREDIT: Ron Allen
Most celeb-associated, back-to school campaigns send the kids off with a new set of pencils and notebooks, not a song.
Not the Coca-Cola Refresh Your Flow Tour.
Again, obviously, the goal is to “Refresh Your Flow”. And how so? The Atlanta-based beverage empire is bringing the rather intelligent, Grammy-nominated hip-hop phenom Lupe Fiasco, and 17-year-old newcomer Karina, to the Tabernacle today for an invite-only show.
(To get tickets you can listen to Hot-107.9, be in the Boys & Girls Clubs or just the right place when Coca-Cola street teams come through).
Before his appearance, Fiasco told us how “really dope it is to rock for a large part of my fan base — which is teenagers and kids — in a club setting. Because usually when people do things for young people, they treat it kind of kiddie. But I’m rocking in the kinds of clubs I usually rock…and what’s really cool is to look out n the audience and see like half the crowd in Boys & Girls Club t-shirts. And it’s like the best and brightest. That’s fresh all around.”
And how does one of hip-hop’s most touted lyricists “refresh his flow”? “I try to do what’s left, all of the time. What the status quo is doing, what everybody’s doing, I go left of…Like recently, I stopped going on the Internet. I’ve limited my Internet interface. I just wanted to slow things down because there is way too much information out there…Doing things like that makes me feel different, and in some way will affect my music. Refresh my flow.”
As for Karina (above), the answer is apparently to come to our fair city. “I recorded most of my album there,” she told us. The first single from “First Love”— due in stores Aug. 19 — was “16 @ War,” produced by local hitmakers Tricky and The Dream.
Carlos McKinney had a hand in her latest single, “Can’t Find The Words.” (Hear it HERE ). And she also worked with Sean Garrett, the Clutch and the Knightwritaz.
“I really fell in the love with that city,” Karina said. “Most of the time I stayed at the InterContinental Hotel, so of course I went to Lenox [Square] often. I love that mall. And the Cheesecake Factory. And Waffle House”.
Despite all of that time here, today will be the first time she performs in Atlanta. But it may not be the last time you see her. She has launched an “Anything Is Possible” essay contest where girls 13 and older can submit an essay HERE explaining what that theme means to them. The winner will get to meet Karina at the 2008 Girl Scout National Convention in Indianapolis. The deadline is Sept. 30.
Have you gotten tickets to this show? Catch Lupe on Kanye West’s “Glow In The Dark” tour? (He’s STILL laughing about falling during the “Touch The Sky” encore). Planning to get “First Love”?
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