WATCH IT: Lupe Fiasco "Around My Way" (Alex Nazari, dir.)

By Steven Gottlieb on July 18, 2012 @ 12:38pm PDT | Comments (0)

Driving a splashy car, getting jewelry from a record excecutive and hanging with some literal cartoon characters on a stoop doesn't ring true for extra-perceptive Lupe Fiasco, so it's no surprise when the ending twist reveals that the rapper is mainly playing with a bunch of the stock hip-hop rap video motifs and other nonsense we see on TV. --> watch "Around My Way" 

Rank and File Lupe Fiasco 
"Around My Way (Freedom Ain't Free)" (Atlantic)
Alex Nazari, director | Jay Tauzin, producer | Rank+File, production co | Markus White, vfx |Tony Mendez, animation | Brant Barger, Matthew Roznovak, exec. producers | Laure Scott, Rep |Emmanuelle Cuny-Panicker, commissioner 

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