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Good luck keeping a mouth as prolific as Lupe Fiasco's down. Backstage at this weekend's Coachella, the West Side Chicago wordsmith blabbed to Billboard.com a few early details of The Cool, his follow-up to last year's boom-bap buffet Food & Liquor. If the title sounds familiar, that could be because it's shared by a track on Food & Liquor. Eh, cool with us.

Lupe's looking at a Halloween release for the record, and is nothing if not modest in his ambitions: he's still looking to pull Pink Floyd to back his shrewd syntax on a track. And, hey, if that doesn't work, he could use Super Furry Animals and no one'd know.

Lupe also told Billboard.com of a 'top secret' collaboration with "another superstar rapper and someone who is a rapper/producer." Gee, think he means K. West and Jigga? Whatever; I'm riding for Jazze Pha and Reh Dogg.

Young Fiasco's got a couple tour dates planned for the summer, and here they are.

Chasing the cool:

05-04 Danbury, CT - Western CT State University
05-05 Willimantic, CT - Eastern Connecticut
05-26 Evanston, IL - Northwestern University
05-27 Westwood, CA - UCLA JazzReggae Festival Jam Day
08-05 Chicago, IL - Lollapalooza
09-01-03 Seattle, WA - Bumbershoot Festival