| "Daydreamin'" | ||||
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| Single byLupe Fiasco featuringJill Scott | ||||
| from the albumLupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor | ||||
| Released | September 11, 2006 | |||
| Recorded | 2006 | |||
| Genre | Hip hop | |||
| Length | 3:55 | |||
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| Producer | Kallman | |||
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| "Darydreamin" onYouTube | ||||
"Daydreamin'" is the third single taken fromLupe Fiasco's albumLupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor (2006) and features soul singerJill Scott. The song wonBest Urban/Alternative Performance at the50th Annual Grammy Awards, earning Fiasco his first Grammy and Scott's third.
The single is based on a sample of "Daydream" by the Günter Kallmann Choir, (Which itself is a cover, the original being written byThe Wallace Collection). The song's lyrics depict an adventure being experienced through the eyes of a robot. The song's lyrics are also a critique of pop culture, especially of the current state ofhip hop music.
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 theGrammy Award forBest Urban/Alternative Performance. It was ranked the best rap song of 2006 by many publications. "Daydreamin'" featured in a 2008AT&T commercial for aSamsung phone.[1]
In January 2022, Lupe Fiasco revealed that producer & CEO of Atlantic Records Craig Kallman forced the song onto Fiasco'sFood and Liquor album "or it wasn't coming out".[2] Fiasco also revealed that he receives no royalties or revenue from the Grammy-winning song.[3]
Amusic video was created for the song; it shows Lupe Fiasco at a record store, where he meets and befriends arobot. Jill Scott is shown in a video projected on the wall, singing with a flower in her hair in a manner reminiscent ofBillie Holiday.
Young Buck did a freestyle remix over the instrumental to this song, and is the first track, featured onG-Unit Radio Pt. 24: The Clean Up Man.
Chamillionaire made a remix on hisMixtape Messiah 7.
The song was not a major success on theBillboard charts, but it did begin to pick up steam on the digital download charts, peaking at #26 on theiTunes hip-hop/rap charts and #32 on theAmazon hip-hop/rap charts as of May 1, 2008.
| Chart (2006) | Peak position |
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| Australia (ARIA)[4] | 40 |
| Denmark Airplay (Tracklisten)[5] | 1 |
| Ireland (IRMA)[6] | 37 |
| UK Singles (OCC)[7] | 25 |
| UK Hip Hop/R&B (OCC)[8] | 11 |
| USHot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard) | 63 |
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| United States (RIAA)[9] | Platinum | 1,000,000‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. | ||
A further remixed version is used in the 2016 episode"eps2.0_unm4sk-pt1.tc" in Season 2 of the seriesMr. Robot.[10]
