Friday, 5/13/11

by musicclipoftheday

Happy Birthday, Luke!

What would it be like—I can only wonder—to be turning twenty today?

Here’s a fave from the Luke files.

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If I didn’t have kids, would my ears be stuck, forever, on “repeat”?

Here’s something my younger son Luke, who just started college, played for me recently, after first pronouncing it, with quiet but absolute authority, the best thing this guy has done (already Luke’s learned that what’s important isn’t to be right; it’s to seem right).

Lupe Fiasco, “Hip Hop Saved My Life,” live, Los Angeles, 2008

(Originally posted 9/14/09.)