Lupe Fiasco 'Kick, Push' Born Wasalu Muhammad Jaco on February 17th, 1982 From Chicago, Illinois Started rapping in middle school First signed to a label when he was 19 Released 'Kick, Push' in 2006 Literary Elements Sources Onomatopoeia- 'Ca-kunk, ca-kunk, kunk' Lupe used this. Lupe Fiasco – Chi Town Guevara Mixtape (2006) 01 Intro 02 Touch the Sky 03 Pressure 04 Kick Push 05 Failure 06 Twilight Zone 07 Mean and Vicious 08 Just Might Be OK Ft. Gemini 09 Switch 10 Dead Prez 11 Outty 5000 12 Penz and Needlez 13 Lupe the Gorrilla 14 Lupe the Killa 15 Jedi Mind Tricks 16 Hurt Me Soul 17 Kick Push Remix Ft. It became Lupe Fiasco's highest-charting song in Britain to date, outperforming both of his previous biggest hits, 'Kick, Push' and 'Daydreamin', both of which peaked within the top 30 of the UK Singles Chart. The song was nominated for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration at the Grammy Awards of 2009. It was also nominated for 2008 Teen Choice Music.

'Daydreamin'' is the third single taken from Lupe Fiasco's album Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor (2006) and features soul singer Jill Scott.

Background[edit]

The single is based on a sample of 'Daydream in Blue' by I Monster, a song that samples 'Daydream' by Gunter Kallmann Choir (which in itself is a cover, the original being written by The Wallace Collection). The song's lyrics depict an adventure being experienced through the eyes of a robot. The song's lyrics are also a critique of pop culture, especially of the current state of hip hop music.

The song was released in the UK and US on September 11, 2006; however, a download-only version was available one week earlier and charted at #46 (without any physical sales).

In 2008 'Daydreamin' won the Grammy Award for Best Urban/Alternative Performance. It was ranked the best rap song of 2006 by many publications.

This song was also featured in an AT&T commercial during May 2008 for a Samsung phone.^{[citation needed]}

Music video[edit]

A music video was created for the song; it shows Lupe Fiasco at a record store, where he meets and befriends a robot. Jill Scott is shown in a video projected on the wall, singing with a flower in her hair in a manner reminiscent of Billie Holiday.

Remixes[edit]

Young Buck did a freestyle remix over the instrumental to this song, and is the first track, featured on G-Unit Radio Pt. 24: The Clean Up Man.

Chamillionaire made a remix on his Mixtape Messiah 7.

Track listings[edit]

• CD: 1

1. 'Daydreamin' (featuring Jill Scott)
2. 'Kick, Push' (remix) (featuring Pharrell)

• CD: 2

1. 'Daydreamin' (featuring Jill Scott)
2. 'Kick, Push' (remix) (featuring Pharrell)
3. 'Daydreamin' (Video)

• 12' Vinyl

1. 'Daydreamin' (radio edit) (featuring Jill Scott)
2. 'Daydreamin' (instrumental)
3. 'Daydreamin' (album version) (featuring Jill Scott)
4. 'Theme Music to a Drive-By'

Charts[edit]

The song was not a major success on the Billboard charts, but it did begin to pick up steam on the digital download charts, peaking at #26 on the iTunes hip-hop/rap charts and #32 on the Amazon hip-hop/rap charts as of May 1, 2008.

Kick Push Video

In popular culture[edit]

Lupe Fiasco Kick Push Meaning Dictionary

A further remixed version of I Monster's work is used in the 2016 episode 'eps2.0_unm4sk-pt1.tc' in Season 2 of the series Mr. Robot, which is often mistaken for the Lupe Fiasco version. The music that appears in the show uses parts that only appear in the 1998 song, and no vocals or changes from the Fiasco version are present.^[2]

References[edit]

1. ^'Hitlisten.NU – Lupe Fiasco – Daydreamin' (in Danish). Tracklisten.
2. ^https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4901088/soundtrack?ref_=tt_trv_snd

External links[edit]

• 'Daydreamin' (Feat. Jill Scott) (Live at Raymann in the Netherlands)
• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

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