Lupe Fiasco's "Tetsuo & Youth" Pushed Back. Contemplates Hanging It Up

[NoHalfWay]

From the songs he played at his shows this Tetsuo album has the potential to be up there with Food & Liquor/The Cool status. His label ain't giving this nikka no push and even tho Lupe bytches a lot and threatens to quit he won't hang it up. Hip Hop needs this dude on a mainstream level.

It's kinda fukked up how fans abandon a nikka that gave you twice amount of classic/dope shyt than he has wack shyt just because you disagree with his rants/personal opinions or didn't like his last 2 albums. Smh

 

[Loose]

I wish Jay-z bought his contract out when he was at def jam, lupe deserved better

 

[Insensitive]

Lupe's latest incarnation is this condescending whining douche
who has taken his twitter personality and shoehorned it into his music.
There's no longer any finesse to his song writing now he's featuring the same
N****a's and B****es in his records that he used to criticize his peers for.
Now he plays his fans and his detractors alike as idiots.
"Next to It" ?
"Bytch Bad" ?
Incredibly similar concepts, different levels of sophistication but ultimately
a LONG, LONG ways from "Sunshine" which was on the original F&L CD.
Oddly enough "Bytch bad" is directly in contradiction of "Next to It" even
if both on the surface level seem to be an affront to Misogyny in Hip Hop.

He used to abstain from certain things he once looked down
upon but now that he's dressed like Future with fukking Ty Dolla Sign
on the hook. I'm supposed to think he's some brilliant artiste with
skill beyond my understanding

F&L 2 shouldn't even be mentioned in the same breath
as his first album and lasers was horrid.Neither of these albums are shining
examples of "Hip Hop", especially when several well done albums have come
out since then, from both the underground AND the mainstream.
Don't even get me started on that "But...but...What about black on black crime ?" bullsh1t
he pulled during the Trayvon Martin case.

Ok, cool. You don't like it.

Your comment bringing up NAS and the GOAT made me reply the way I did. Yeah those examples weren't overly lyrical, but it's clear that Lupe knows that for a SINGLE it may be best to slow down the lyrics for the regular listener to "get it" so to speak.

If those aren't good singles/songs for RADIO play (and I'll keep mentioning this because that's what I prefaced my initial thoughts on his recent music on) please share some other examples for comparison purposes from other artists with the same amount of notoriety as Lupe.

Thanks in advance

If we're being honest here both Kendrick and J. Cole have dropped
singles with "Substance" and both have quite a bit of notoriety
in Hip Hop with their last releases completely overshadowing what
Lupe did sales wise.
Swimming Pools and Crooked Smile both did pretty well
if I recall and neither feature any Hip Hop single cliches.

 

[XII]

Atlantic

You dudes kill me with this he hasn't dropped anything dope since the cool talk.


Strange fruit >>>>

F&L2 is full of piff like that

Around My Way
Lamborghini Angels
How Dare You
Battle Scars
He had a couple filler tracks (Heart Donor ) but nikkas talking like he fell off the face of the earth

 

[DrX]

fukk up nikka, the studio is obviously fukking him over again. Its Lasers all over again.

lasers was one of his best albums , he should get on his knees and suck criags dikk because they forced him too make music that ppl dont fell asleep to

 

[Kaypain]

lasers was one of his best albums , he should get on his knees and suck criags dikk because they forced him too make music that ppl dont fell asleep to

Thats a first....

 

[Big Mel]

I still think people are jiving when they speak highly of Food & Liks or The Cool. Those joints were pretty poppy IMO. Like world pop Ibiza rap. Not my twist. Plus 'Pe has a mousey, pip squeak voice like a hoe. Mad gentle.

 

[Rigby.]

fukk

 

[Rigby.]

Atlantic pretty much destroyed Lupe's career

 

[Pazzy]

folks still have faith in lupe is failure?

 

[Rigby.]

It must suck to be a genius and be surrounded by idiots. If Lu hangs it up he hangs it up as the GOAT lyricist and top 5 all time rapper

Thank you Wasalu

If he stopped pre Lasers, he would've been a top 5 rapper easily. No one has used entendres like him ever, his lyricism was above even Rakim and younger Nas. Sad how shyt changes. Can he still spit like that? Sure, just not consistently

 

[Crakface]

Hang it the fukk up then. Tired of this nikka making threats about quitting.

 

[Momentum]

fukk Atlantic Free Wassalu

 

[Momentum]

mike brown wouldn't have died if he listened to lupe

Ironically if he listened to F&L2....you may be right....

 

[Momentum]

ehh, I wouldn't even say that.

Yeah the hardcore Lupe Fans don't mess with Lasers

Hardcore fans like myself grew to love Lasers