Lupe Fiasco proclaims The Cool his best album: "It's number one!!!!!"

[ROBEEZYKILLA]

One of my personal favorite albums mostly due to nostalgia but yea in 08-09 I played the shyt out of this album I was in my early 20s great job fresh to death new car and bumping the coolest nikka what cant be replicated…

 

[bad_company]

That's his best work in my opinion.

Imagine if We On was on it. I mean it came out some weeks later.
Probably my favorite song ever from Lupe.
S/O Gemstones as well, what an incredible duo they made.

 

[987654321]

Same.
Used to love it. Now? Eh.

I feel some of the songs haven’t aged that well if we’re being honest (Gotta Eat, Go Go Gadget Flow, Streets on Fire, The Die, Hello/Goodbye, Fighters). Not that they’re awful songs, it’s just sonically he could’ve easily left them off.

And he has one of the worst songs I’ve heard from a top rapper in Go Baby.




Wtf is this?

It feels like a chore to listen to the whole album nowadays.

Some of the production is definitely a time capsule for 2007/2008. I was glad when the 2000’s ended, musically. 2010+ felt like a production renaissance outside of the mainstream shyt, comparatively.

 

[Bigblackted4]

I’m in the minority but Drogas Wave is his best project and I don’t find it particularly close. T&Y is a chore to listen to.

 

[987654321]

My nine year old loves this album. Everytime we cruising around the city, her request is either the cool or 400 degreez.

I hope mine can appreciate stuff like that when she’s that age. She does seem to really like “Mama’s Gun” and some other stuff. She’s just old enough to smile, kick her legs, gyrate lol.

 

[987654321]

I’m in the minority but Drogas Wave is his best project and I don’t find it particularly close. T&Y is a chore to listen to.

I’m the opposite. There are some songs on DW that I really love, but I never feel like listening to it anymore. T&Y I can throw on whenever and play front to back.

 

[erker]

Tetsuo & Youth for me. The Cool loses steam in the last stretch for me. T&Y is perfect from start to finish (and finish to start!)

 

[mc_brew]

I’m in the minority but Drogas Wave is his best project and I don’t find it particularly close. T&Y is a chore to listen to.

i'm in the minority too but my fav from lupe is f&l......

i know people hated kick and push but that was my shït.... the instrumental, hurt me soul, and american terrorist....

 

[Black Excellence]

i'm in the minority too but my fav from lupe is f&l......

i know people hated kick and push but that was my shït.... the instrumental, hurt me soul, and american terrorist....

I don’t see why you’d be in the minority, that’s easily his best album to me. It was nuanced enough in production & lyrics while he was still in his prime with his vocal delivery. His delivery that he was known for with Farenhenheit, Revenge of the Nerds, started falling off by The Cool while his pen sharpened.

The way people feel about T&Y and Drogas Wave, is how I feel about Food and Liquor. It’s quite possibly the most perfect hip hop album to me. Late Registration is another one.

 

[Bugzbunny129]

The cool song is his best song

And the album his best album

 

[Peauxboy]

I hope mine can appreciate stuff like that when she’s that age. She does seem to really like “Mama’s Gun” and some other stuff. She’s just old enough to smile, kick her legs, gyrate lol.

She’s on her way, just keep playing good music. Mine knows Teena, Sade, Anita, EW&F, Gap band… She be fukking old heads up singing along to those songs at gatherings. I don’t get too crazy with rap while we’re together, but a classic is a classic.

 

[Rice N Beans]

Getting this and Graduation in 2007 was .

My fav Lupe Album.