Lupe Fiasco - Tetsuo & Youth (Discussion thread)*Stream*
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It's funny. We all, including his fans, ridicule Lupe of this "higher than thou" stance... but dude puts a ton of thought and effort into his work.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]
No Scratches is another one that could count...
Who's trying to walk away from The Streets (with all the car and crash references) with no scratches in this song? The Game or The Cool?
Always messed with the mutual respect Lu and Budden have for each other.
He tried to play Lu before TY dropped and say "Lupe used to do amazing things with words."
Lu just replied "Mural" lol
As untouchable as Mural is Lu brought the bars on an extreme level throughout the whole album. Mural just the song where he specifically said "my sole purpose with this track is to remind y'all of why nobody is on my level."
"Look these wild nikkas in they eyes
In the video it's some nikkas that done died
Looked the ghosts in the face and I cried
No Wu-Tang, just Lu gang when I ride"
For those who didn't know this actually happened. Lupe broke down into tears looking at old videos of him with friends that died.
Just now picked up the Ghostface/Wu-Tang line. Was slow on that one.
In the video it's some nikkas that done died
Looked the ghosts in the face and I cried
No Wu-Tang, just Lu gang when I ride"
For those who didn't know this actually happened. Lupe broke down into tears looking at old videos of him with friends that died.
Just now picked up the Ghostface/Wu-Tang line. Was slow on that one.
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how long before another rapper does their own "murals"?
rather its a track or just rapping over the beat
rather its a track or just rapping over the beat
People make remixes over hot songs they think they can outdo lyrically.
You already know.
the beats been used before
but no rapper is gonna try and hop on it like "oh, my verse is better"
may as well just body yourself and save time