Kick, Push

Kick, Push

Infobox Single
Name = Kick, Push |


Artist = Lupe Fiasco
from Album = Food & Liquor
Released = 2006
Format = CD Single
[ Recorded = 2005 ]
Genre = Hip-Hop
Length = 4:15
Label = 1st & 15th / Atlantic
Writer = Wasalu Muhammad Jaco
Producer = Soundtrakk
[ Reviews = ] *
Last single = "Touch The Sky"
(2005)
This single = "Kick, Push"
(2006)
Next single = "I Gotcha"
(2006)Extra album cover
Upper caption = Alternate covers
Background = khaki


Lower caption = UK CD: 2 cover featuring a sticker on indicating the customer can create their own "Kick, Push" ringtone.
"Kick, Push" is the first single released from Lupe Fiasco's debut album, "Food & Liquor". It has been referred to as "a needle in hip hop's haystack of complacent songs." [cite web
url=http://rap.about.com/od/reviews/gr/LupeKickPush.htm
title=Lupe Fiasco - "Kick, Push"
accessdate=2006-07-13
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] It is one of the few songs in which Fiasco does not use any profanities. [http://www.lyricsdir.com/lupe-fiasco-kick-push-lyrics.html
Kick, Push lyrics, which show that Fiasco does not use any profanities.
]

Lupe has clarified, "...I'm not a skater and I don't want to keep putting on the faces of people who've been skating for 20 years and actually lived out "Kick, Push"." ["Lupe Fiasco on Zombies. Zen and the Art Of. Skateboarding", By Quanah Humphries, Intersection Magazine (USA Version), Volume 5, Fall 2006]

This track is included in EA Sports' "NBA Live 07" and "Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam".

The song features a sample of "Bolero Medley" by Celeste Legaspi.

It was listed at #15 on Pitchfork Media's The Top 100 Tracks of 2006 list. [ [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/40070-staff-list-the-top-100-tracks-of-2006/page_9 Pitchfork Feature: The Top 100 Tracks of 2006 ] ]

It was also listed in the top 100 rap songs of all time.Fact|date=August 2008

Track listing

*CD: 1
#"Kick, Push"
#"Tilted" (non-album track)

*CD: 2
#"Kick, Push"
#"Spazz Out" (non-album track)
#"Kick, Push" (MyTone ringtone)
#"Kick, Push" (Video)

*12" Vinyl
#"Kick, Push" (album version)
#"Kick, Push" (instrumental)
#"Kick, Push" (acappella)
#"Titled" (non-album track)

Charts

Notes


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