| "Daydreamin'" | ||||
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| Single by Lupe Fiasco featuring Jill Scott | ||||
| from the album Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor | ||||
| Released | September 11, 2006 | |||
| Recorded | 2006 | |||
| Genre | Hip hop | |||
| Length | 3:55 | |||
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| Producer(s) | Kallman | |||
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| "Darydreamin" on YouTube | ||||
"Daydreamin'" is the third single taken from Lupe Fiasco's album Lupe Fiasco's Food &Liquor (2006) and features soul singer Jill Scott. The song won Best Urban/Alternative Performance at the 50th 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 by The 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 of hip 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 the Grammy Award for Best Urban/Alternative Performance. It was ranked the best rap song of 2006 by many publications. "Daydreamin'" featured in a 2008 AT&T commercial for a Samsung phone. [1]
In January 2022,Lupe Fiasco revealed that producer &CEO of Atlantic Records Craig Kallman forced the song onto Fiasco's Food 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]
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.
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.
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.
| 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 |
| US Hot 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 series Mr. Robot . [10]