intilectual recipricol
Killin fake hip hop
its so smooth... I like the 2nd verse... pose.Am I the only one that can't get down with Adoration of the Magi? Maybe it needs to grow on me.. the third verse is nuts though
Lupe Fiasco - Tetsuo & Youth (Discussion thread)*Stream*
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ElectroMan
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Yea you are breh
This is the first album I paid for in years. Im so scared brehs 
Gonna digest this in the automobile
Gonna digest this in the automobile
ElectroMan
Superstar
its so smooth... I like the 2nd verse... pose.
That sax synchronization with Lu on the entire track
I really like that one. Did you pick up what he was doing with the hook? Not saying that it will make you like the record more, but pretty dope when you realize it.
Off 2 listens these are my favorite from each season
Summer - Mural
Fall - Prisoner 1 & 2
Winter - TRON
Not by a lot for any though. For winter, Deliver and Adoration are RIGHT there for me and I love Chopper and Madonna. For Fall it was splitting hairs picking between Prisoner and Body of Work. Mural is just too much though. Dots and Blur My Hands are both great but Mural was the star.
This is the first album I paid for in years. Im so scared brehs
I was too. Don't be. He redeemed himself. Big time. Lasers is officially a thing of the past.
You really gonna tell me this wasn't outlandish masterful stannery of the highest quality?Just got through my first listen. I am going to take my time and process what I just heard, but a brief few thoughts five minutes after...
- this is the most aurally pleasing album I have ever heard...if you even want to call it an album. Each song represented a thematic roller coaster with twists and terms and drops and spins, with the only solace being that you knew Lupe was the conductor and he'd keep the cars on track no matter where it went next.
- this album makes the Lupe before Janaury 20th 2015, the man I considered to be the best rapper of all time, look amateurish. I don't known what he became during these studio sessions but there had to be some type of Godly intervention where the Holy spirit took over this man's soul.
- everyone knows I'm a huge fan of the guy so this is going to make me sound like a huge dork, but I am really struggling to find a single flaw in the album from any stand point. Maybe the banjo sounding instrumental at the beginning and the end of Dots and Lines is something I could have done without? I don't know....it was unique and different still.
- the hooks and production are impeccable. Perfection. I get the impression that nobody involved on this product wanted to let Lupe, a man going through torment on his record label, down. They all gave him everything, and in return the table was perfectly set for Lupe to dominate the microphone with nothing hindering his greatness. Reminds me of an all time great player finding the right squad to maximize his ability. Maybe a Kevin Garnett going to the Celtics or a Randy Moss on the 2007 Patriots.
- The density of SONGS - not just mural - but SONGS - on this album makes the likes of Failure and Dumb It Down seem flakey croissant thin. What's beautiful about it is the layers that require multiple listens to fully digest, decipher, and undercover are complimented by the aforementioned production that makes Lupe's challenge not a burden, but an exciting journey you can't wait to continue exploring.
- Lupe knew exactly what he was doing making Deliver the first single. As deep as that song is, it's a little brother in depth compared to a bunch of Shaquille O'neals and Yao Mings. Chopper and Deliver were the "lighter" songs on the album and perfectly sequenced to give your brain a little break to relax itself for the home stretch.
- I felt since 2012 that Good Kid mAAd was the best hip hop album of the decade. I no longer feel that way after hearing this.
- I feel like a kid who just got 12 amazing toys to play with and have no idea which to tackle first so I'm just gonna play with them in the order I received them.
- As incredible as Mural was, nothing after it disappointed. Mural actually stood out as the only song that's just a "This is why I'm better than all of your favorite rappers" while the others are so much more than that. Mural was just Lupe stretching before beginning to paint. And what a beautiful stretch it was. Pause.
- I feel incredibly bad for Joey Bada$$ because while he dropped a fantastic debut, I can no longer go back and listen to his album with any real joy for a long, long time. I don't know if I can listen to any other rap material for a long time after hearing this - old Lupe included.
- My cousin told me when she first heard it (she bumped the leak) that it wasn't just an album, but a piece of art. I thought she was gassing to get me excited. What she really said was an understatement.
I was planning on writing a more formal review, but I'm going to need some time to sort what I just heard out. I'm kinda in a "wtf" mode right now and I don't think I can write my best like this.
Oh one last thing, Lupe said in an interview last night that the seasons were essentially pallet cleansers to reset your taste buds for the next segment. After hearing the album, I completed agreed with and respected his decision. The summer songs felt far more light and playful than the rest of the album. The fall was beautiful yet dark and dreary, and the winter was without remorse and the heaviest material on the album. Brilliant.
I laugh in anticipation of the negativity I'll read, but it comes with the territory. No one and nothing is ever going to be liked by everyone, but I know what I just personally experienced. It's something I've never felt before and it has completely reinvigorated my love for music and inspired me to take my writing abilities to the highest level possible.
Okay I'm out for now.
You said this album has the best rapping you've ever heard over production and hooks that were "perfection". That it's the best album of the decade.
You said you're not worried about the negativity because you know what you just personally experienced.
To top it all off, you wrote this, by your own admission, five minutes after listening to the album once.
I'll give you this though, if ten years from now, this album is heralded as one of the greatest of all time - you'll be vindicated.
nikkas thirsty for my acknowledgement even when they haven't heard it? Lmao...another nikka who'll inevitably bump the album with the stank face looking to hate. You get four sentences and a return neg hoe.
I can tell from the first song this is an album I have to listen to without distractions. From that POV its almost daunting, but exciting, and recalling of a time when music was worth anticipating and digesting. Exciting
I hope Kendrick is ready.
They gone be doing him like this REAL soon.
I already see it happening
Kendrick makes dope, entertaining, non-pseudo intellectual rap music. A song like Swimming Pools or B!tch Dont Kill My Vibe is better than anything on this album.
That's exactly what this album is. Get hyped. Mural is it's own thing though. The rest of the songs aren't like that song which was made just to show off. The others are more thematic. Still require lots of attention and digestion though.
This shyt is amazing. My first listen. He really came hard. What's halls favorite tracks?
intilectual recipricol
Killin fake hip hop
Roadrunners dont fall off cliffs, they run across
anomalies by the colony, flukes by the reservoir
wiley pursuers end up as "poofs" on the desert floors
anomalies by the colony, flukes by the reservoir
wiley pursuers end up as "poofs" on the desert floors
CanesMiamiLakers
All Star
the lyricism 
I gotta disagree.
I like Deliver better than both those songs. They're fire too tho
Shameonyou
All Star
mural is the best song I've heard in years