With a career that already spans 20 years, Lupe Fiasco is already starting to be considered a rap veteran. The Chicago native has never been afraid to displease his audience: he has tackled, in all of his projects new concepts and experimentations. Even if it means screwing up or alienating fans. And we’re all the better for it. With House, a five track EP entirely produced by Kaelin Ellis to the point that it is presented as a joint project, it is a labyrinth of spiritual reflections in line with the world today amid a background of tasteful, suave and calming jazz-rap rhythms. You must listen to House as a whole in order, from beginning to end. The album begins with a speech by designer Virgil Abloh, whose voice is heard throughout the EP, whether it be on this introduction or on the track Shoes. What can a pair of shoes bring to the world? Is the shoe therefore a form of art or can it be political as well? Lupe Fiasco has many of these reflective bursts and rambles magnificently about the extinction of the dinosaurs on the track DINOSAURS, on the size of the skull of a Tyrannosaurus and on the meteorite that wiped them out. A very talkative and discursive rap flow in a style that is always virtuous. © Brice Miclet/Qobuz