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

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NoHalfWay said:
Does TRON count since he's rapping in the perspective of The Game?
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Hence all the videogame references, "the game" being a triple entendre.... nikka!!!! My brain just melted
:ohhh::gladbron::ooh::ooh:

"Eyes like MK Ultra"

*Googles*

"Project MKUltra — sometimes referred to as the CIA's mind control program — was the code name given to an illegal and clandestine program of experiments"

:ooh::ooh:

fukk it, Wassalu is the GOAT.
 
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Momentum said:
Hence all the videogame references, "the game" being a triple entendre.... nikka!!!! My brain just melted
:ohhh::gladbron::ooh::ooh:

"Eyes like MK Ultra"

*Googles*

"Project MKUltra — sometimes referred to as the CIA's mind control program — was the code name given to an illegal and clandestine program of experiments"

:ooh::ooh:

fukk it, Wassalu is the GOAT.
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Yeah the game metaphors is a given.

The whole album follows the theme of playing the Game, being trapped in The Game (literally, figuratively). It's crazy cuz it's all throughout the album especially when you play it backwards.
 
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Lupe Fiasco's The Cool expands on the story Lupe told on the track, "The Cool", from his debut album. Fiasco introduces the characters the Streets and the Game.[5] The album tells the story of the little boy from "He Say, She Say" who grew up without a father, and the people that step in to raise him are the Streets and the Game,[6] with The Streets playing his female love interest and The Game his father.[7] Speaking on the concept Lupe said:

I expand on the story, I introduce two other characters, the Game and the Streets. The Streets is a female. She's like the action personification of the streets, the street life, the call of the streets. The Game is the same way. The Game is the personification of the game. The pimp's game, the hustler's game, the con man's game, whatever. Then they've got supernatural characteristics. Like the Cool, his right hand is rotted away. The only thing that rotted away was his right hand. It represents the rotting away of his righteousness, of his good. And the Streets and the Cool kind of have a love affair going on. So she's represented by this locket. And the locket has a key and it's on fire. And as a gift to the Cool on his rise to fame, she gave him the key. And the key represents the key to the Streets. So she wears a locket around her neck at all times. And the way the story goes, she has given that key to tons of people throughout time. Al Capone, Alexander the Great, whatever. She's giving them the key to the Streets. Fame and fortune — but also the prices. The Game, he's represented by a stripped-down skull, a skull with dice in his eyes and smoke coming out of his mouth. The billowing smoke is actually crack smoke. It's not a full concept album; it's more spread over like five [tracks], really abstractly.[8]


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NoHalfWay said:
I guess it derived from that tweet he had of The Game picture with the song's title

But Lupe's delivery & flow comes off more sinister akin to Put You On Game.

Then there's certain lines that catch my attention

"Redacted vision through these dark shades"

Both "The Streets" & "The Game" wear dark shades

"Coolest, tulips, flowers, fall from the towers
Like balls from Galileo to lay low
Ignorance that the world isn't ours, the gall
Give them all showers"

Give them all showers could be interpreted as lead showers. Which is giving somebody a full clip, along with the fountain of youth metaphor.

"Sumo you up off your turf boy" = street gangs fighting over turf
"Tsunami you up off your Tsurf board" = sex slang, diseases knocking these hoes & nikkas on their asses (Which go backs to characteristics of The Streets broad)

Just how I interpret it :yeshrug:
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None of that even sounds like a reach either. Good shyt. Honestly that kinda bums me out since I was kinda looking forward to a whole new album, but that's dope.
 
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intilectual recipricol said:
and the drug references too...
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That too. On damn near every joint
Versa said:
None of that even sounds like a reach either. Good shyt. Honestly that kinda bums me out since I was kinda looking forward to a whole new album, but that's dope.
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Wouldn't be bummed out just yet. I don't think he's done with Michael Young History's story

Unless this album's about him that is... I think the ending will be more straightforward
 
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