Lupe Fiasco – Run Game [video]
1st & 15th Entertainment announced “Chill’s Spotlight†and released the project’s lead single “Run Game†by Lupe Fiasco. Curated by 1st & 15th co-founder Charles “Chill†Patton, “Chill’s Spotlight†is a playlist of some of the label’s previously unreleased tracks that are finally being released to the world. A video for “Run Game†was just released, with Complex saying “the clip finds a teenage Lupe surrogate gaining an intriguing, but ultimately horrifying, glimpse of future rap stardom.â€
“We recorded this single back when I was just starting out,†says Fiasco. “Chill was heavily involved in the early days of my career, and I’m glad he’s highlighting it with this new project.â€
“I first started working with Lupe when he was about 17, I had just gotten off the Up in Smoke tour and he was hanging with some cats I knew†says Chill. “I heard Lu in the studio and it was some of the hottest shit I ever heard. I immediately grabbed him and put him in some cyphers, and everything took off from there.â€
“We recorded ‘Run Game’ a little later,†Chill continues. “Right now I’m working on some new projects, and whenever I work on something new I look back for inspiration. When I rediscovered this track, I knew we had to release it from the vault for the ‘Chill’s Spotlight’ playlist. Each month we’ll be dropping more tracks from Lupe and other F&F-affiliated artists as part of ‘Chill’s Spotlight,’ so stay tuned for more dope music that hasn’t been heard before.â€
“Run Game†is the first of many tracks on “Chill’s Spotlight†to be released via 1st & 15th Entertainment / Thirty Tigers.