Lupe Fiasco's long-awaited Lasers album will finally hit shelves next year. The Chicago MC's label, Atlantic Records, announced Friday (October that his third LP is slated for a March 8 release. The album's first single will be released October 26 via his website.

The official drop date comes a day after Lupe tweeted a picture of himself grinning with record exec Julie Greenwald below a placard emblazoned with the Atlantic logo and giving a thumbs-up sign. The pic was accompanied by a simple caption: "Victory!"

The announcement follows months of drama between Lupe and his label, in which the bespectacled lyricist charged that Atlantic urged him to record singles that he wouldn't retain publishing rights to. One of the records the label pushed was "Nothin' on You," which was later handed over to Lupe's labelmate B.o.B and became a #1 hit.

"I wrote 'Superstar.' The hook, all that sh--. That whole song is mine. I'm not doing it outta fame. I don't mind having people come in and support. That's how my career started. With all that said, I own some of 'Superstar.' These records, I'm not finnin' to own sh-- on those records [Atlantic chose as singles]. N---a, that's not success. That's stupidity," Lupe told MTV News in July. "I got a whole family, a whole team, a whole crew of n---as I f--- with in the streets that's eating off what Lupe Fiasco is doing. I gotta do what's best. If I'm not getting no publishing check, that means I can't pay for my man's lawyer."

Fiasco has also revealed that the label's insistence on cutting into his endorsement and tour revenue via a 360 deal strained his rapport with the company.

With the album in limbo, some of Lupe's dedicated fans started an online petition to coax Atlantic into releasing Lasers, which scored roughly 16,000 signatures by mid-summer and, at press time, boasted more than 30,000 digital co-signs. The initiative likely played a factor in the amelioration of the MC's relationship with his label.

"For them to see 16,000 people say, 'This is what we want and what we want now,' " Lupe said in July. " 'We're sick of all this dumb bullsh--.' They love to see fans that actually care."

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1649637/20101008/fiasco__lupe.jhtml

Finally.

Hope it's as good as his previous attempts. I still listen to Food and Liquor ALOT.

That's great!

I love 'I'm beaming'. Don't know if there are other released singles.

Yup. There's one.

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Thank you
Feels good wakin’ up
Yeah, back
On my j-o
Guess I gotta go to work
It’s cool

I wipe the cool from my eye
Stationed in Antarctica, coldest nigga alive
Flow is Armageddon, might smite crows from the sky
Before you drive you have to wipe locust-es off your rides
But I’m warmin’ up, oceans is on the rise
I’ll be Ocean with eleven associates on my side
Colder than Chris Martin guitarin’, would you look at all these spies?
But they can’t see me, I took out their eyes
Replaced them with some mes, so all they see is hes
But I will never run, not even if they cry
See, I can never fall, not even down their cheek
But I will always ball, let’s see who the first to blink
And I don’t need no passwords, ’cause I don’t need to cheat
But you can say your last words, then you can rest in peace
I’m the hook after your last verse, I’m also like your beat
But I will turn it down, so you can go to sleep

So you can go to sleep
Yes, you can to sleep
So you can go to sleep
So you can go to sleep

Good night, good night
Good night, good night

Now you can go to sleep
Yes, you can to go to sleep
Now you can go to sleep
Now you can go to sleep

Good night, good night
(Official niggas on they job)
(And you know we gotta ball)
Good night, good night
(Real niggas pop it all)
(Phony niggas not at all)

Insomniac since way back, see, this what I been like
Bacon, eggs, and pancakes, eatin’ it at midnight
Gettin’ up and goin’ hard, I don’t need no Enzyte
Come across as very calm, mental state is Zen-like
Always had a lot of heart, never been the tin type
Never will I drop a dime, never been the ten type
My girlfriend is very fine, yes, she is a ten, right?
Mink is draggin’ on the flo’, fire in my windpipe
You should come and clean up after riots that I incite
Things got off the handle, left behind a landfill
Traffic at a standstill, stadium is fan-filled
Fill this bitch up with fans, you still would blow my candle out
My can-do spirit’s in the house
And it’s possessin’ your possessions, did you hear it by the couch?
Boogieman under your bed, not in your closet, ’cause I’m not a homo
Won’t shut no door, ho, I won’t make a peep, so you can go to sleep

Now you can go to sleep
Yeah, you can go to sleep
Now you can go to sleep
So you can go to sleep

Good night, good night
Good night, good night
(Real niggas up again)
(Phony niggas tuckin’ in)

So you can go to sleep
Yes, you can go to sleep
Now you can go to sleep
Now you can go to sleep

Good night, good night
(Official niggas on they job)
(And you know we gonna ball)
Good night, good night
(Real niggas pop it all)
(Phony niggas not at all)

I wipe the coal from my eye
Then put it in my stove and hope that my dough rise
And that my clothes dry, but I am so high
I’m sitting on the storm, that I got soaked by
Now you can come close, so you can get warm
But you get no pie, but you can sell ‘em for ‘im
So here’s your bowtie, now get ready to fall
‘Cause humans don’t fly, the boy in the balloon
See I didn’t go hide, and I’m comin’ back to flow again
Close down all that opium, but I had to OPN
They said they need a hero, and if so I’m back to dope again
Pull up in that old-school, Flintstone drop on rolling pins
Time is all behind me, this make me feel old again
Grandma’s all around me, I can feel her soul within
Hold my daddy over him, I woke the roosters, woke the hens
Everything’s cashmere, count the sheep that you can go to sleep

So you can go to sleep
Yes, you can go to sleep
Now you can go to sleep (Go to sleep!)
So you can go to sleep

Good night, good night (It’s okay!)
Good night, good night
(Real niggas up again)
(Phony niggas tuckin’ in)

So you can go to sleep
Yes, you can go to sleep
Now you can go to sleep
So you can go to sleep

Good night, good night
(Official niggas on the job)
(And you know we gonna ball)
Good night, good night
(Real niggas pop it all)
(Phony niggas not at all)

If talk is cheap
Then my silence is diamonds
Preach
Young!
Man, I feel like
I feel so good
It’s the Great American Rap Album
15!
Hundred!
Run it!
I done it!
Before!
I do it
All again
All for y’all

Now you can go to sleep
You can go to sleep
Now you can go to sleep
Yes, you can go to sleep

Now you can go to sleep
Yeah, you can go to sleep
Yeah, you can to sleep
Yeah, you can go to sleep

So you can go to sleep
Yes, you can go to sleep
Now you can go to sleep (Go to sleep!)
So you can go to sleep

Good night, good night (It’s okay!)
Good night, good night
(Real niggas up again)
(Phony niggas tuckin’ in)

So you can go to sleep
Yes, you can go to sleep
Now you can go to sleep
So you can go to sleep

Good night, good night
(Official niggas on the job)
(And you know we gonna ball)
Good night, good night
(Real niggas pop it all)
(Phony niggas not at all)


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can't wait for Lasers!

He should really go to back to his old style though. He seems more determined to go over heads than to relay a simple message in a complex manner. I'm a Lupe stan so it's all good though.

bros i lyk lupe fiasco but those verses up there na rap or na poem im write.i am almost developed headache while readin n tryn to understand them

lupe is hip hop