𝓦𝓪𝓼𝓪𝓵𝓾 𝓜𝓾𝓱𝓪𝓶𝓶𝓪𝓭 𝓙𝓪𝓬𝓸 | 🪬 🧿The Lupe Fiasco Thread 🧿 🪬 l "Samurai " Out Now

[ReasonableMatic]

I could tell Lupe..

I love Lupe Fiasco, but this album ain’t it.

Not even because son ain’t spittin, because he is.

But even with the Jazzy beats, the album just feels.. SOULLESS?!

And Lupe needs to stop these mumble half-effort sing songy hooks too, it’s just lazy.

It just feels like he approached the album too “formulaic”.

Even though that’s an inaccurate description because there’s a formula to rap/Hiphop.

But this SAMURAI album feels damn near robotic to me.

Bigfoot prolly my favorite song on the album.
It feels the most natural/organic sounding song me, even though he went offbeat a couple times tryna cramp in too many words a couple bars.

Samurai is extremely bland, it lacks seasoning..

 

[erker]

Samurai is such an incredible album to me, his best since Tetsuo & Youth.

 

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[IronFist]

My guest this week is Chicago rapper, producer, label head, and MIT professor, Lupe Fiasco. We spoke about True Detective, being inspired by his father’s record and film collections, practicing martial arts and African drumming, references and concepts in his music, creating across eras, the art and pros and cons of criticism, his bond with producer Soundtrakk, and the creative process behind his years-in-the-making latest album, the Amy Winehouse-inspired Samurai.

 

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