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Lupe Fiasco - Tetsuo & Youth (Discussion thread)*Stream*
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http://grantland.com/hollywood-pros...-hidden-meaning-of-lupe-fiascos-tetsuo-youth/
Haven't read it yet, but saw Lupe post this on his FB page.
Dope read. Basically followed up on the breadcrumbs lupe has put out there since the album dropped that supports what many of us thought about the album theories.
There's better analysis in this thread than in that article.
Good read, but we been on this since January
It's noteworthy tho because it was posted from on of Lupe's social media accounts. So even if all of the annotations aren't spot on in the article, it's clear that Lupe wants some of the listeners or fans who haven't heard about this theory to see it.
I have not really played this since like the second week I got the album but I was beginning to wonder if how you described that song is in my head because outside from the hok and parts of the 3rd verse, it is not entirely that clear. I was listening to this shyt feeling like it is random bars that soud dope...part of a story...more random bars...part of a point...more random bars...and then the hook.Then he follows that song up with Dots & Lines shytting on the idea of label politics and signing on to majors
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
Song has a lot going on with it, that's for sure.
Dust this off, and my mind was re-blown
...Prison 1&2 Dualities and those Hood NEGUS
GOing HAM on Chopper
IPhone in my baby name
Long way from that chirp
Strip pole in my bedroom
But I’mma kill my daughter if she twerk
I’mma kill my daughter if she twerk
Miley Cyrus is that bullshyt
But a rednecker can’t judge
That for Billy Ray to have to deal with
...Prison 1&2 Dualities and those Hood NEGUS
GOing HAM on ChopperIPhone in my baby name
Long way from that chirp
Strip pole in my bedroom
But I’mma kill my daughter if she twerk
I’mma kill my daughter if she twerk
Miley Cyrus is that bullshyt
But a rednecker can’t judge
That for Billy Ray to have to deal with
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Watching nikkas get smart, watching nikkas get strong, watching nikkas get home. He jail us but deep down he jealous.Dust this off, and my mind was blown again
...Prison 1&2 Dualities and those Hood NEGUS GOing HAM on Chopper
IPhone in my baby name
Long way from that chirp
Strip pole in my bedroom
But I’mma kill my daughter if she twerk
I’mma kill my daughter if she twerk
Miley Cyrus is that bullshyt
But a rednecker can’t judge
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love this album thank you lupe 
So far I'd have Tetsuo & Youth but I'm still getting into To Pimp A Butterfly and Sound & Color. Depending who drops in the rest of the year T&Y will probably stay top.
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coli shyt
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.
I slept hard on No Scratches shyts one the best cuts on here. Album is still magnificent months later.