Discography

Promotional singles | 18

The discography of American rapper Lupe Fiasco consists of eight studio albums, two extended plays, eight mixtapes, thirty-three singles (including twenty-three as a featured artist), and sixteen promotional singles (including two as a featured artist). According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), he has sold 2.5 million albums and five million digital singles units in the United States.

Fiasco began his music career in the early 2000s, where he was briefly signed to Epic Records and placed in the hip hop group, Da Pak. After their split, he and Charles "Chilly" Patton created the record label 1st & 15th Entertainment. He signed to Arista Records around 2002 as a solo artist and began working on his debut album. Nearly finished, where he was doing final album track listings, CEO L.A. Reid was fired, resulting in many artists also being dropped from the label. Despite the setback, Jay-Z helped him sign a recording contract with Atlantic Records in 2005 and served as the executive producer on his first album, where Fiasco would go on to release five albums with the label.

His debut album, *Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor* (2006), was released to commercial and critical success. While the album was prematurely leaked several months ahead, it sold 81,000 copies in its first week, spent thirteen weeks on the *Billboard* 200, and was nominated for Best Rap Album at the 49th Grammy Awards. His second, *Lupe Fiasco's The Cool* (2007), succeeded its predecessor in twenty-eight weeks on the *Billboard* 200, first-week sales of 143,407 copies, and was certified Platinum by the RIAA in 2022 for sales of one million copies. His third album *Lasers* became the first rap album by a male artist in 2011 to debut at number one on the *Billboard* 200. It had a first-week sales of 204,000 copies, noted by critics to market heavily towards radio appeal, a change from the rapper's normal artistry. His next two albums, *Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1* (2012) and *Tetsuo & Youth* (2015), marked his final projects with Atlantic before going independent. They had first-week sales of 89,778 and 42,000, respectively. In 2017, *Drogas Light* was released to mixed reception, where Fiasco forayed into trap music and had sales significantly less than the two previous albums, with 19,702 copies in its first week. In the subsequent year, Fiasco released his seventh studio album *Drogas Wave*, his longest project to date with themes of resurrection, slavery, and water across twenty-four tracks. It achieved 11,099 album-equivalent units in its first week, of which 4,951 were pure sales. Four years later, *Drill Music in Zion* (2022) was released, sonically rooted in jazz rap.

Aside from his solo career, Fiasco is the lead vocalist of indie-rock band Japanese Cartoon and half of the EDM duo SNDCLSH. He was part of the hip hop supergroup Child Rebel Soldier alongside Kanye West and Pharrell Williams and founded All City Chess Club with Williams.

## Extended plays

* Label: 1st & 15th, Thirty Tigers
 Track listing
1. "Homme Made"
2. "Dinosaurs"
3. "Sledom"
4. "Shoes"
* Label: 1st & 15th, Thirty Tigers
 Track listing
1. "Oh Yes"
2. "Apologetic"

## See also

* Videography § Music videos
* List of songs

## References

1. ↑ "Searchable Database — RIAA". *RIAA*. Retrieved January 10, 2024.
2. ↑ "Searchable Database — RIAA". *RIAA*. Retrieved January 10, 2024.
3. ↑ Crosley, Hillary (November 27, 2007). "The Unclassifiable Lupe Fiasco". *Billboard*.
4. ↑ Caulfield, Keith (March 17, 2011). "The Week in Music Sales: Lupe Fiasco's 'Lasers' Shoots to No. 1". *The Hollywood Reporter*.
5. ↑ Zisook, Brian (February 20, 2017). "Lupe Fiasco's 'DROGAS Light' Sold 14,416 Copies, Is That Good?". *DJBooth*.
6. ↑ Eustice, Kyle (October 1, 2018). "Hip Hop Album Sales: Brockhampton Nabs Billboard 200's Coveted Spot with "Iridescence"". *HipHopDX*.