Lupe Fiasco - DROGAS WAVE (Discussion Thread)
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Enjoy your life and loved ones.
Every time I hear the third verse of WAV Files I get chills. The way he harmonizes the slave ships so smoothly always gets me. That verse is so heavy to me emotionally. There's a sadness to the way it sounds with the music.
Even the hook on Down makes me feel a certain level of peace and melancholy. The whole album is affecting me on an emotion level rather than "this is dope" which it is but man. It's kind of hard to pull my thoughts together.
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On a different note, I smiled hearing this line on SGS and the California Drug Deal. It's simple but slick: "I only follow escorts now, call it sticking to the program."
Even the hook on Down makes me feel a certain level of peace and melancholy. The whole album is affecting me on an emotion level rather than "this is dope" which it is but man. It's kind of hard to pull my thoughts together.
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On a different note, I smiled hearing this line on SGS and the California Drug Deal. It's simple but slick: "I only follow escorts now, call it sticking to the program."
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I wasn't ready for this at all. To much wickedness to take in God damn. Gave one spin have to get me a quiet spot and take down a whiskey and fully take this in.
The bar that me hit off the one spin:
You can accomplish anything if you survive blackness!
The bar that me hit off the one spin:
You can accomplish anything if you survive blackness!
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This album is damn near a religious experience
This is best the explanation I have seen so far listened before I went into meeting just had to cancel the shyt I was a mentally a mess.
((ReFleXioN)) EteRNaL
RIP MR. SMOKE
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imo he prolly does 1 of two things. Or boththis shyt is incredible brehs....im not even sure where to start.
does anyone have any insight to his writing process?? like, how the fukk does he even start making an album like this??
1) writes alot- in the creative world when u write or do ur craft alot, coming up with new and sometimes relatively original ideas come up frequently
2) he turns everything around him into his art. he sees everything as something he can use in his rap for concepts and his lyricism. From a fly on the wall to the mailman putting mail in the box and so on.
As a creative writer myself, these r two methods I know other creators use(and others) and I use myself.
Lupe seems like he def uses #2 method given his metaphoric references and concepts etc
U have a link?
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#ninergang
I think he's one of the best rappers to pick up a mic but there are a few projects that moved me more this year it is what it is.
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The Report Card Podcast on Youtube
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The audio stream’s almost as long as this album, so here’s the sparknotes:
“You gotta keep constantly revising, rethinking, constantly searching to make sure that the flow and the lyrics are equally impressive, so you don’t just got a bunch of flow, but you’re not saying nothing.”
“The word is gonna mean something or it’s gonna do something and for something. You become a slave to the meaning or the image sometimes, so you gotta be very careful when you pick certain words, because you’ll become a slave to the story that’s gonna get created off of those words. Cause it’ll rhyme, but if it’s not relative to the story that you’re trying to tell, it becomes reachy. Or it’ll take the story in a direction you don’t really want it to go and you’ll kinda do yourself a disservice, especially if you’re really deep into the verse. The more important thing than the rhyme is that it carries the narrative.”
But if you really wanna hear the whole thing yourselves, it’s the 4th post down.
The Vault - List of Known Unreleased Lupe Songs (Updated: 9/12/2018) - Page 19 « Kanye West Forum
The way he stuffs his lyrics top to bottom with entendres, you already know he's gotta be somewhat meticulous with his word choice. I'm not sure if this tells you all that much about how slaves who became waves comes about, but he's also said in the past that he spends a longer time just thinking of the concept to begin with, rather than the actual writing process described above.
((ReFleXioN)) EteRNaL
RIP MR. SMOKE
Summon the forest
Talkin' to trees like how could you be in the chorus
With something so horrid?
You became boards for the floors and the doors of the warships
Anthropomorphic, the forest returned with a match
Made from itself and said, "Burn us with that"
Then left again and came back with an axe
We can serve you as furniture or furnace us black
Talkin' to trees like how could you be in the chorus
With something so horrid?
You became boards for the floors and the doors of the warships
Anthropomorphic, the forest returned with a match
Made from itself and said, "Burn us with that"
Then left again and came back with an axe
We can serve you as furniture or furnace us black
Man i can’t BELIEVE HipHopDX only gave this album 3.8. Are they run by Cacs now or something?
Thanks breh. Didnt have time to search that thread lol
