Lupe Fiasco - DROGAS WAVE (Discussion Thread)

[Ziggiy]

I’m legit mad as hell this album ain’t getting the accolades it deserves.

I thought Nasir was criminally shyt on but THIS right here is just disgusting. Lupe literally gave you the Souls Of Black Folk in audio form and critics acting like albums like this drop every damn day.

Alan Forever by itself should be getting this nigha crowned the Best Lyricist Alive and people still talking about that HORRIBLE ass Eminem atrocity because he dropped a weak ass diss to another mediocre Cac rapper

 

[King P]

Yeah brehs, this shyt AOTY IMO. Amazing piece of work.

Manilla
WAV Files
Haile Selassie
Alan Forever ()
Stronger
XO
Jonylah Forever ()
Stack That Cheese
King Nas
Happy Timbuck2 Day
Mural Jr.

I'd name more but I'd basically name the whole album

It's about time we acknowledge as 1 of the most gifted lyricists of all time, he can't be denied anymore

 

[Kirk Thuglass]

i really dont think another rapper couldve made this album. the lyricism is 10/10 at face value, then you dig into the themes and all the references, and it gets even more impressive.

GOAT lyricist.

classic album.

 

[MarcP]

Breh. That post-coital rag XXL gave this fire a L rating

 

[Skip2]

Breh. That post-coital rag XXL gave this fire a L rating

Same site that gave Kamikaze an XL.

 

[GoldenGlove]

Accessibility trumps all things when you're pumping out album reviews less than a week after an album has been released.

Some of these publications are giving Wave the same scores that they gave Drogas Light


What more needs to be said?

 

[Ziggiy]

Breh. That post-coital rag XXL gave this fire a L rating

The muthafukking Fix is in

 

[CHICAGO]

ALAN FOREVER HAS REALLY GROWN ON ME.

I SMILE AND AT THE SAME TIME
WHEN LISTENING TO IT.

THIS ALBUM IS AN OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCE.



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[ThaEruditious]

 

[Figaro]

Find out....I was just a bad dream

Jonylah Forever still hits even after all these years listening to it

 

[ineedsleep212]

 

[Shadow]

Give it time brehs. I wouldn't trust any review that hasn't at least given it a week to sit on their mind. You can't rush and write a review to something like this. It deserves your upmost attention and focus. This isn't microwave music. It requires time to haunt you.

I predict the praise to come towards the beginning of October onward (also physical copies). Regardless reviews can't take away from what Lupe has accomplished with the album.

Though I understand the frustration of him not getting his just due. Especially when others have albums deemed 'classic' within the first 24 hours. <---this is also something not to be trusted.

 

[NoHalfWay]

Breh. That post-coital rag XXL gave this fire a L rating

Just read it. Very lazily written, rushed review.

His assessment of the music is as incomplete as he claims the concepts explored on the album are.

Imagine is a great song, but it isn’t the standout track of the album lmao.

He pretty much told on himself there, he picked the simplest song to follow as the album’s crowning achievement.

“Dense, convoluted, and monotonous”

I can understand not liking the album, but monotonous?

As many flows, varying production styles and cadences that’s on here it is monotonous? This nikka rapping in patois on some songs and it’s monotonous?

Just overall poorly examined.

 

[Black Lightning]

King Nas

 

[Da_Eggman]

http://www.xxlmag.com/rap-music/reviews/2018/09/lupe-fiasco-drogas-wave-album-review/

It’s really troubling that this album isn’t getting glowing reviews

And they all are pretty much it’s too long I don’t get it fukk it

That’s cool for a casual ig post but an actual so called music reviewer whose job it is to listen