Lupe Fiasco - DROGAS WAVE (Discussion Thread)

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He also shared that the album—which he mostly recorded in his home—was on a “razor-thin budget,” and he had to scrap some songs due to sample clearance issues:

“Some of the terms that people want to clear their samples can be a little too overboard,”
he said. “Got word back today about a few samples and we made the decision to pull the samples out and begin reworking the records cuz the upfront costs plus the rights they want on the back end are just unacceptable.”

He added, “Bad news Wavers: remakes of joints we can’t clear aren’t going according to plan. So I’ve decided to just start from scratch with new records instead of pushing through something on y’all that I’m not feeling and that I don’t think y’all would feel either. It’s like 3 joints but they were really pivotal to the second half of the album. So I’m gonna tear it all back down and start over till I get the vibe back.”



Smh. Hopefully we get to hear those 3 tracks that were left off. And they were from the 2nd half so you know they were prolly on some super smooth shyt
This is all from the Reddit updates page, he was feeling the remakes the next day or so. King Nas was one of them and a couple others, probably also Soundtrakk, since he did the remakes. That said, Dee-1 listened to the album last year and said Lupe played him "all 28 tracks", so something was cut after all.
 

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Nah that's a you thing. Most hip hop folks, big fans of Lupe or not, are in agreement that it's a great album.

Doesn't take a Lupe Stan to appreciate this. That's more like a Lasers or Food & Liquor 2.
:manny: its not wack just not mind blowing to me or anything. I'll keep it in rotation and maybe I'll see what the big deal is. Thanks bruh.
 

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This guy got it pretty good even agreed with him about Down which I like now but was like wtf is this
 

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And if I can act like a stan for 2 seconds:

It's real funny to me how this site talks all this "black excellence" this and "fukk cacs" that...meanwhile, a man puts out an unapologetically black album and ya'll still making excuses for "not feeling" him because he fell out of white media favor a decade ago, hence why the last album you "felt" was The Cool.

He's too complex for me but it's really not that deep :hula:

He can rap but I dont like the beats even though this is the best production he's had in years :stopitslime:

I pretended like I listened to a 4 songs out of 24 and I didn't like it :fohch:

I don't like the beats but I can listen to drumless loops all day :martin:

I'm not sure if I can handle his voice for that long but I can deal with a nikka from California doing his best Quasimoto impression for an hour :rudy:


But I'm not a stan so if you don't like it, it's whatever. :hubie:
 

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:wow: :whew: :banderas::ohlawd:
 

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And if I can act like a stan for 2 seconds:

It's real funny to me how this site talks all this "black excellence" this and "fukk cacs" that...meanwhile, a man puts out an unapologetically black album and ya'll still making excuses for "not feeling" him because he fell out of white media favor a decade ago, hence why the last album you "felt" was The Cool.

He's too complex for me but it's really not that deep :hula:

He can rap but I dont like the beats even though this is the best production he's had in years :stopitslime:

I pretended like I listened to a 4 songs out of 24 and I didn't like it :fohch:

I don't like the beats but I can listen to drumless loops all day :martin:

I'm not sure if I can handle his voice for that long but I can deal with a nikka from California doing his best Quasimoto impression for an hour :rudy:


But I'm not a stan so if you don't like it, it's whatever. :hubie:


You see it lol.

nikkas move funny. Just goes to show you can always formulate a reason to not like something or someone.
 
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