Hip-hop

If you’re a fan of good hip-hop, smile. Since the Kanye/Curtis showdown three months ago, we’ve been inundated with first-rate album releases. From Graduation to American Gangster, the dueling Wu joints, the standard for hip-hop’s honor roll of 2007 has been raised. But before the year slips away from us forever, Lupe Fiasco has one more treat for our ears. And after listening to and digesting The Cool, people may have to go back and re-work those year-end best lists.