Lupe Fiasco fantasizes through 'Out Of My Head'

If Lupe Fiasco didn't win you over with his live performance of "Out of My Head" at the MTV Movie Awards, he may just charm you with the official music video. Unable to get his love interest out of his head, Fiasco ends up seeing her in every woman he comes across in this newly released video for his third single off Chicago rhymer's latest successful Atlantic set "Lasers," out this past spring.
This for-the-ladies rap with a music-industry-as-romance metaphor features Fiasco's labelmate, the R&B singer Trey Songz. Lyrically, the song compares a love interest whose effect is similar to that of a catchy song. The 29-year-old rapper says that the song "doesn't have any deep meaning behind it, and is for the chicks." Songz has praised the song, saying that it was one of his favorite collaborations he ever did. The song is also a whole hell of a lot more mainstream and radio friendly and vying to become the third top 10 hit for both artists.
Featuring Songz on the hook and shouting the chorus from the rooftops, the Michael Thelin-directed promo clip takes Fiasco through his day, and he is trying to have himself any other ordinary day, as he walks out of his building, onto the sidewalk and into his waiting car. But everywhere he goes, he sees his girl played by Model Tracey Thomas. While most of Fiasco's encounters would add up to a bad day for most people, the rapper is all smiles at the end of it, when he finally lays eyes on his girlfriend, the same broad he's been eying all over town in every women he's passed by.
Fiasco is undoubtedly one of the most talented MCs in hip-hop, but he is still working to earn a place in the upper echelon of rap superstars. With the Chicago rapper's third album, "Lasers," which has found its way to No.1 on the Billboard 200, Fiasco makes a leap in that direction. He told MTV News, "For this record, being a more popular record and being the goal of this record from its inception, no matter what changes and phases and label battles that it went through, it was always about, 'Let's take it to another level'."