We Can All Agree That "Around My Way" lyrically is flawless

[Cal Cutta]

No no no, I was talking about the threadstarter, not you...

And technically, no, your example is not hyperbole, it's an opinion.

And to the threadstarter, that little Ba'ath line is flawed. Actually it's very flawed...

 

[ManBearPig]

amazing

 

[Michael Knight]

It’s parts of Manila like the video for "Thriller"
But the US Embassy is reminiscent of a villa
If poverty is chocolate and privilege vanilla
Then what’s the flavor of the Sunday preacher’s pedophilia
Cash rules everything around these nikkas
As classrooms everywhere around me wither
Hither you can be Mr. Burns or Mr. Smithers
The tyrant or the slave but nowhere in the middle
Of the extremes of America’s dream
Freud fighting Neo, Freddy Krueger refereeing

 

[WOAHMYGOODNESS]

people laugh when I say this, but a prime Lupe Fiasco is the best rapper my two ears have ever heard

revenge of the ner to the cool = best lyrical rapper ever

 

[DaveyDave]

why didn't producer just sample from the original song & do his own twist to it instead of sampling Pete Rock beat?

 

[obarth]

it's hyperbole that even if God handed Lupe the greatest rap of all time i'd still detest it seeing as how his voice and delivery are wack as fukk to me?

Ok, entertain me for a few minutes, no homo, and listen to these tracks and let me know if your opinion changes in the slightest bit. I'm not posting these as pinnacle's of dude's lyricism either:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpPwEP9rhlY]Lupe Fiasco - Cold World (Unreleased)[HOT!!] - YouTube[/ame]



[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akJD85Ydbgk]Lupe Fiasco - Accept The Troubles [2008 EXCLUSIVE] - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Big Mel]

That's a daunting task. There's like 10. I own and have listened to food & liquor & the cool at least 7 times each. I hate them both and was never left thinking he was any more than a guy who goes to great lengths to say next to nothing lyrically. He's all smoke and mirrors with no pay out.

 

[obarth]

That's a daunting task. There's like 10. I own and have listened to food & liquor & the cool at least 7 times each. I hate them both and was never left thinking he was any more than a guy who goes to great lengths to say next to nothing lyrically. He's all smoke and mirrors with no pay out.

I feel you. Those are all tracks pre-F&L and also before his mixtapes. He sounds completely different and is on some other shyt on these. You can take your time if you want.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Jim Jones "Around My Way">>>>>

 

[the cool]

Talib kweli around my way >

 

[Billy Ocean]

Ill Al Skratch "Come Around My Way" >>>>>>>>

 

[Poppa_Dock]

Stable is when the Ba'ath had baghdad

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Kp and envi "shorty come around my way">>>

 

[Non Sequitur]

That's a daunting task. There's like 10. I own and have listened to food & liquor & the cool at least 7 times each. I hate them both and was never left thinking he was any more than a guy who goes to great lengths to say next to nothing lyrically. He's all smoke and mirrors with no pay out.

I actually agree with this and I used to be a fan.


But...


If he gets a few of his listeners to go out and research some of the subjects he raps about on their own, then he's made a positive impact.

 

[Non Sequitur]

Kp and envi "shorty come around my way">>>