Lupe Fiasco - Tetsuo & Youth (Discussion thread)*Stream*

[We Major]

So, who's now listening to the album back-to-front as default now?

 

[Nephilim_BC]

If those lost in Atlantic tracks were on here this would be a guaranteed classic

 

[We Major]

Forgot all about Pu$$y

Lupe got to get us all those extras one day. Even though they're "Atlantic records" they're probably still

http://www.datpiff.com/Lupe-Fiasco-Tetsuo-Youths-Leftovers-mixtape.670668.html

No 'Crack' though.

 

[Loose]

Please stop calling this shyt youth and tetsuo sounds so corny

 

[intilectual recipricol]

Lu really is a nikka Nick Wellenda runnin over rap

 

[Nephilim_BC]

That girl that called into the sway interview from my city...she was preaching...ima find her

 

[intilectual recipricol]

5 listens in we are on the same page except I would replace chopper with Deliver.

You gon stop hatin on Chopper if its the last thing you do

 

[Versa]

That girl that called into the sway interview from my city...she was preaching...ima find her

You think so? That woman made me cringe. She was arguing that if she had the choice to either erase 5 centuries of black oppression but erase hip hop or keep hip hop and oppression she'd choose to keep hip hop.

I love hip hop and all but gtfo bytch.

 

[Versa]

You gon stop hatin on Chopper if its the last thing you do

Every song on here is great but I like deliver more than chopper.

 

[Nephilim_BC]

You think so? That woman made me cringe. She was arguing that if she had the choice to either erase 5 centuries of black oppression but erase hip hop or keep hip hop and oppression she'd choose to keep hip hop.

I love hip hop and all but gtfo bytch.

I didn't say she was preaching the truth

But would definitely be nice to have a debate/discussion about. Idk what I'd choose tbh love hip hop

 

[Yoda]

Album of the year so far
Gets better with every listen

 

[Versa]

Idk what I'd choose tbh love hip hop

Are you black? If yes then you are bugging. Think about all we went through which led to hip hop being created as an outlet to express that awful pain. To choose music over our liberation, progression, safety and perseverance is to spit in the face of our history and ancestors. It's obviously a ridiculous question that would never actually come into play, but yeah.


Besides, we're the most creative and stylish people around. We would've eventually created something just as dope, if not eerily similar, anyway.

 

[intilectual recipricol]

Are you black? If yes then you are bugging. Think about all we went through which led to hip hop being created as an outlet to express that awful pain. To choose music over our liberation, progression, safety and perseverance is to spit in the face of our history and ancestors. It's obviously a rdiculous question that would never actually come into play, but yeah.


Besides, we're the most creative and stylish people around. We would've eventually created something just as dope, if not eerily similar, anyway.

We did, its called "Super"
I'm pretty sure on you and me were the ones who gave up hip hop when SLR came out

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

hard to settle on 5, but if i was to pick my personal favorites

1. No Scratches
2. TRON
3. Deliver
4. Dots & Lines
5. Mural

Chopper just missed the cut..that one grew on me alot from the first listen.

 

[Khalil's_Black_Excellence]

It fits the mold of summer best for sure so I won't argue it's positioning on the album, but it also would have been a great outro track....maybe a hidden bonus that plays right after Spring.

It has a celebratory "I'm finally free from this label" vibe and I think making it the last song would've been very effective.

The fact this album even came out untarnished by Atlantic is amazing to me. There's not one record on here that reeks of "ewww Atlantic made him do this one" on the album. Blur My Hands is the most radio friendly but it doesn't sound compromised lyrically or thematically at all. Deliver also fit the mold because of it being the shortest and least least layered song on the album. That's why it was the album's single, but it definitely wasn't forced on him either.

This is the only rap album besides Good Kid mAAd and Logic's Under Pressure I've heard this decade that has no tracks I ever think to skip. All 3 are true gems from start to finish.

This is the kinda album where one person says "that was probably my least favorite" and a bunch of people jump in and say "WHAT? THAT SONG WAS DOPE"

That's how you know you're dealing with a classic.

PRyhme doesn't have any skippable tracks either, albeit it's a short album.