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Daydreamin' (Lupe Fiasco song)

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Released
  
September 11, 2006

Genre
  
Alternative hip hop

Label
  
1st & 15th / Atlantic

Recorded
  
2006

Length
  
3:55

Format
  
CD single, digital download

"Daydreamin'" is the third single taken from Lupe Fiasco's album Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor (2006) and features soul singer Jill Scott. The single is based on a sample of "Daydream in Blue" by I Monster, a song that samples "Daydream" by Gunter Kallman Choir (which in itself is a cover, the original being written by The Wallace Collection). The song's lyrics are a critique of pop culture, especially of the current state of hip hop music.

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The song was released in the UK and US on September 11, 2006; however, a download-only version was available one week earlier and charted at #46 (without any physical sales).

In 2008 "Daydreamin'" won the Grammy Award for Best Urban/Alternative Performance. It was ranked the best rap song of 2006 by many publications.

This song was also featured in an AT&T commercial during May 2008 for a Samsung phone.

Music video

A music video was created for the song; it shows Lupe Fiasco at a record store, where he meets and befriends a robot. Jill Scott is shown in a video projected on the wall, singing with a flower in her hair in a manner reminiscent of Billie Holiday.

Remixes

Young Buck did a freestyle remix over the instrumental to this song, and is the first track, featured on G-Unit Radio Pt. 24: The Clean Up Man.

Chamillionaire made a remix on his Mixtape Messiah 7.

Track listings

  • CD: 1
    1. "Daydreamin'" (featuring Jill Scott)
    2. "Kick, Push" (remix) (featuring Pharrell)
  • CD: 2
    1. "Daydreamin'" (featuring Jill Scott)
    2. "Kick, Push" (remix) (featuring Pharrell)
    3. "Daydreamin'" (Video)
  • 12" Vinyl
    1. "Daydreamin'" (radio edit) (featuring Jill Scott)
    2. "Daydreamin'" (instrumental)
    3. "Daydreamin'" (album version) (featuring Jill Scott)
    4. "Theme Music to a Drive-By"

    Charts

    The song was not a major success on the Billboard charts, but it did begin to pick up steam on the digital download charts, peaking at #26 on the iTunes hip-hop/rap charts and #32 on the Amazon hip-hop/rap charts as of May 1, 2008.

    The song was featured on the first episode of the second season of the USA Network series Mr. Robot.

    References

    Daydreamin' (Lupe Fiasco song) Wikipedia
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