Lupe Fiasco - DROGAS WAVE (Discussion Thread)

[OfTheCross]

Dios es mi droga

 

[L $ C]

Kendrick or cole makes this album and it woulda been heralded as one of the best albums of the decade SMH

 

[4-Rin]

Kendrick or cole makes this album and it woulda been heralded as one of the best albums of the decade SMH

Is this better than Tetsuo & Youth? If it's not then it's not even Lupes best album this decade

 

[L $ C]

Is this better than Tetsuo & Youth? If it's not then it's not even Lupes best album this decade

diff types of albums....both to me are 4.75/5

 

[Chip Skylark]

Is this better than Tetsuo & Youth? If it's not then it's not even Lupes best album this decade

Naw it’s not better but it’s a tier below it. Tetsuo is a masterpiece!

drogas wave has some of the best technical, songwriting, thoughtful songs on it though

the fact that Lupe pulls that off compliments his greatness

 

[qnsfinest]

This album still gets heavy play when I’m out smoking.

Straight fukkin classic. Easily one of my favorite of that decade.

 

[Preach Jackson]

Black king poetic with Nat King's aesthetic

 

[FINALE]

This is the greatest MC of all time

 

[FINALE]

This is an album of resurrection and rebirth. When I first heard it I wondered why the slave concept stopped after like track 7. The more I've sat with the music, I realized that the rest of the project, and therefore the project as a whole, is rooted in one of many motifs. One of them I'll highlight is the honoring of people and songs of the past while having them be figuratively reborn again

Tracks 1-7 - resurrection of trans-atlanic slaves that jumped ship into the oceans

Haile Selassie - tribute to Selassie

Alan and Jonylah Forever - tribute to Alan Kurdi and Jonylah Watkins where they're put in an alternate reality for a second life

Imagine - revival of "young Lupe"

Stack That Cheese - spiritual successor of Hip Hop Saved My Life

Happy Timbuck2 Day - tribute to deceased DJ Timbuktu

Quotations From Chairman Fred - tribute to Fred Hampton

Mural Jr. - sequel to Mural (mural reborn )

There's so much more to this album but I said all this to say it does have a consistent concept and theme if not multiple

Wasalu the gawd

I always figured the slave story was paralleled with his story with Atlantic records.

 

[erker]

Black king poetic with Nat King's aesthetic

I'm the man now

 

[OfTheCross]

This is an album of resurrection and rebirth. When I first heard it I wondered why the slave concept stopped after like track 7. The more I've sat with the music, I realized that the rest of the project, and therefore the project as a whole, is rooted in one of many motifs. One of them I'll highlight is the honoring of people and songs of the past while having them be figuratively reborn again

Tracks 1-7 - resurrection of trans-atlanic slaves that jumped ship into the oceans

Haile Selassie - tribute to Selassie

Alan and Jonylah Forever - tribute to Alan Kurdi and Jonylah Watkins where they're put in an alternate reality for a second life

Imagine - revival of "young Lupe"

Stack That Cheese - spiritual successor of Hip Hop Saved My Life

Happy Timbuck2 Day - tribute to deceased DJ Timbuktu

Quotations From Chairman Fred - tribute to Fred Hampton

Mural Jr. - sequel to Mural (mural reborn )

There's so much more to this album but I said all this to say it does have a consistent concept and theme if not multiple

Wasalu the gawd

 

[Chip Skylark]

Masterpiece

 

[Cadillac]

me and my homie(who is a lupe fan to) was talking about lupe earlier this week.
and talked about this album.

still a great album.

 

[Cloutius Maximus]

I'm the man now

Thats the best cut on the album along with wav files

Beat sounds like some Nujabes shyt

 

[Ziggiy]

Thats the best cut on the album along with wav files

Beat sounds like some Nujabes shyt

Ghetto GHETTTOOOOOO