Please stop putting Kendrick and Lu in the same category.
Lupe Fiasco - Tetsuo & Youth (Discussion thread)*Stream*
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Best way I can sum up the whole comparison between TPAB and T&Y
http://www.thecoli.com/posts/12823900/
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AyBrehHam Linkin
First Black Brehsident
DoubleClutch
Superstar
Adoration of the magi should be the next single
But it looks like atlantic is done pushing the album
Seems like Lu is more focused on the next albums than promoting t & y
But when the FUCC is he gonna tour again......?!
But it looks like atlantic is done pushing the album
Seems like Lu is more focused on the next albums than promoting t & y
But when the FUCC is he gonna tour again......?!
A.V.
reTIreMEnt: THE ALBUM (01/22) ALL DSPs
I know I'm late (fukk y'all) but the layers on this shyt is incredible. I thought Lupe was just being fake-deep when he mentioned having 4 or 5 narratives going at once throughout the album. But there's literally so many ways to interpret the overall project, from beginning to end, or end to beginning.
1. The Cool/The Game/The Streets narrative
2. Lupe's life & label situation narrative
3. Trying to control one's life, the concept of death, ressurection and trying to reach Nirvana (life being like a video game) narrative
4. The story of the coming/life/death of the Messiah narrative
5. A drug user going through it and trying to get clean & live a better life narrative (this one went over my head until I noticed the amount of drug references on damn near every song)
Literally, you can listen to the entire album through any of these perspectives, separately or at once, and it's INCREDIBLE. And side note, I thought it was dope, but it never really hit me, what the title and hook on "Blur My Hands" really meant, but I knew that the song was referencing the label holding Lupe back
Towards the end, when he references the label exec and refers to him as the character from Falling Down (the movie) realizing his mistake and trying to reach back out to Lupe, to the hook...Song is just one long extended metaphor. A really elaborate way of saying that the label said "fukk you" to Lupe with how they handled his situation, so this song is saying "fukk you" right back to Atlantic.
Were you just saying fukk me? That's cool, that middle finger just means I'm number one, and you're a fan. That's cool, cause it's fukk you too...and peace.
Blur My Hands
This album is GENIUS.
WOAHMYGOODNESS
Your TSC World Champion
Mein furher lupemperor
Then he follows that song up with Dots & Lines shytting on the idea of label politics and signing on to majors
I know I'm late (fukk y'all) but the layers on this shyt is incredible. I thought Lupe was just being fake-deep when he mentioned having 4 or 5 narratives going at once throughout the album. But there's literally so many ways to interpret the overall project, from beginning to end, or end to beginning.
1. The Cool/The Game/The Streets narrative
2. Lupe's life & label situation narrative
3. Trying to control one's life, the concept of death, ressurection and trying to reach Nirvana (life being like a video game) narrative
4. The story of the coming/life/death of the Messiah narrative
5. A drug user going through it and trying to get clean & live a better life narrative (this one went over my head until I noticed the amount of drug references on damn near every song)
Literally, you can listen to the entire album through any of these perspectives, separately or at once, and it's INCREDIBLE. And side note, I thought it was dope, but it never really hit me, what the title and hook on "Blur My Hands" really meant, but I knew that the song was referencing the label holding Lupe back
Towards the end, when he references the label exec and refers to him as the character from Falling Down (the movie) realizing his mistake and trying to reach back out to Lupe, to the hook...Song is just one long extended metaphor. A really elaborate way of saying that the label said "fukk you" to Lupe with how they handled his situation, so this song is saying "fukk you" right back to Atlantic.
Were you just saying fukk me? That's cool, that middle finger just means I'm number one, and you're a fan. That's cool, cause it's fukk you too...and peace.
Blur My Hands
This album is GENIUS.
It's kind of funny but he basically made the most accessible sounding records on the album (at least hook wise) into a big "fukk you" to Atlantic
Gemstones droppin an album in May yal...
I must have listened to TRON like 200 times already. fukking epic.
A.V.
reTIreMEnt: THE ALBUM (01/22) ALL DSPs
The buildup before Ab-Souls verse, to the little drum fill before the best drops, all the way into the "space" & "wavy" adlibs is sooooo
A.V.
reTIreMEnt: THE ALBUM (01/22) ALL DSPs
Tried to go to chuch, church ain't work...Still wanna kill, nikkas
Tried to go to work, but work ain't work...Work ain't work, for the field nikkaaaaaa
Tried to go to work, but work ain't work...Work ain't work, for the field nikkaaaaaa
One of my favorite songs on the albumTried to go to chuch, church ain't work...Still wanna kill, nikkas
Tried to go to work, but work ain't work...Work ain't work, for the field nikkaaaaaa
The video for it sucks though.
Abstract83
Superstar
Damn ya making me wanna give this another spin today. If only his buzz was as big as it was in 07'