We may not have a release date yet for Lupe Fiasco's next album Tetsuo & Youth, but today the Chicago rapper dropped a new single to tide us over. "Pu$$y" features production by MoeZ'art and a hook from Miami rapper Billy Blue, with cover artwork featuring a photograph of Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, who I'm sure will love being associated with a song like this.
You can check out Lupe Fiasco's "Pu$$y" featuring Billy Blue right here:
It's not clear if "Pu$$y" will be included on Fiasco's upcoming studio album Tetsuo & Youth, though it seems to keep in line with his intention to cut down on political commentary. "[T]here are no politics on the record," he told Rolling Stone last October. "If you want to hear my political spiel or some pseudo-intellectual Lupe, go listen to [2012's] Food & Liquor II. From here on out, I'm just making music."
Instead of politics, Fiasco said he was inspired by his experiences growing up in a dangerous part of Chicago, saying, "The content of it is like, 'Oh s**t - I didn't know Lupe could talk like that. I didn't know Lupe was that guy. I didn't know Lupe was affiliated with that.'"
Four singles have been released so far from Tetsuo & Youth: "Old School Love" featuring Ed Sheeran, "Mission," "Next To It" featuring Ty Dolla $ign, and "Remission" featuring Jennifer Hudson and Common.
Lupe Fiasco's most recent album was 2012's Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1, his fourth overall.
