Why Lupe Fiasco Believes He's the Best MC Alive! | SWAY’S UNIVERSE

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One of my favorite Lupe fiasco records...

THIS is the Lupe I like, Food and liquor Lupe...
How now is ....

It's like how on Dragonball z folk in the crowd really enjoy watching martial arts tournaments...then eventually them Nyggas start Flying and teleporting... fighting at the speed of light (I hear they're gods in space now)

And the spectators can't even see them anymore...

:francis:
 

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From a strictly lyrical level. I’m not talking music, albums, performance, just what he puts on paper…he’s probably the GOAT
Pharoah Monch?
GZA?
Rass Kass?
Prime Canibus?
Mos Def 97-2000?
hell even MF Doom

Lupe can't paint a picture with words the way GZA could on Liquid Swords. Mos and Common in their prime were better at making fire music for different demographics while still being lyrical. He is arguably top 10 all-time but not some undisputed goat
 

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Being super lyrical is overrated. It matters to a degree but then you get past a certain threshold where the artist forgets that he's making music.

If you look in Lupe's catalog he's shown he can dumb it down (no pun intended) and still be as effective as anyone in getting the message out there on a first listen.


I think he just becomes super lyrical to challenge himself
 

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Pharoah Monch?
GZA?
Rass Kass?
Prime Canibus?
Mos Def 97-2000?
hell even MF Doom

Lupe can't paint a picture with words the way GZA could on Liquid Swords. Mos and Common in their prime were better at making fire music for different demographics while still being lyrical. He is arguably top 10 all-time but not some undisputed goat

i love all the names u mentioned but outside of prime ras kass and gza the rest can't mess with prime lupe
 

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If Canibus was at all motivate to make "good music". He's far more interesting than Lupe. Convince him to go back to his '98 style andpair him with a competent producer and you get better music.

IDK, never listened to all of it, it was boring. Didn't even bother listening to the Any Winehouse Battle Rap album:beli:
you should try Drogas Wave
 

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i love all the names u mentioned but outside of prime ras kass and gza the rest can't mess with prime lupe
:mjlol:.....prime mos def was way better at storytelling and painting a picture with words. Not to mention a way better flow and mic presence. Lupe doesn't have this level of imagination. Mos def didn't need to be a cringey try hard to get his point across. Because he understood that would serve nobody but himself.



Yo, I'm sure that everybody out listening agree
That everything you see ain't really how it be
A lot of jokers out running in place, chasing the style
Be a lot going on beneath the empty smile
Most cats in my area be loving the hysteria
Synthesized surface conceals the interior
America, land of opportunity, mirages and camouflages
More than usually, speaking loudly
Saying nothing, you confusing me, you losing me
Your game is twisted, want me enlisted in your usury
Foolishly, most men join the ranks cluelessly
Buffoonishly accept the deception, believe the perception
Reflection rarely seen across the surface of the looking glass
Walking the street, wondering who they be looking past
Looking gassed with them imported designer shades on
Stars shine bright, but the light rarely stays on
Same song, just remixed, different arrangement
Put you on a yacht but they won't call it a slave ship
Strangeness, you don't control this, you barely hold this
Screaming "brand new", when they just sanitized the old shyt
Suppose it's, just another clever Jedi mind trick
That they been running across stars through all the time with
I find it's distressing, there's never no in-between
We either nikkas or Kings, we either bytches or Queens
The deadly ritual seems immersed in the perverse
Full of short attention spans, short tempers, and short skirts
Long barrel automatics released in short bursts
The length of black life is treated with short worth
Get yours first, them other nikkas secondary
That type of illing that be filling up the cemetery
This life is temporary but the soul is eternal
Separate the real from the lie, let me learn you
Not strong, only aggressive cause the power ain't directed
That's why we are subjected to the will of the oppressive
Not free, we only licensed, not live, we just exciting
Cause the captors own the masters to what we writing
Not compassionate, only polite, we well trained
Our sincerity's rehearsed in stage, it's just a game
Not good, but well behaved cause the camera survey
Most of the things that we think, do or say
We chasing after death just to call ourselves brave
But everyday, next man meet with the grave/Great
I give a damn if any fan recall my legacy
I'm trying to live life in the sight of God's memory like that y'all


>>>>Lupe's career
 

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:mjlol:.....prime mos def was way better at storytelling and painting a picture with words. Not to mention a way better flow and mic presence. Lupe doesn't have this level of imagination. Mos def didn't need to be a cringey try hard to get his point across. Because he understood that would serve nobody but himself.



Yo, I'm sure that everybody out listening agree
That everything you see ain't really how it be
A lot of jokers out running in place, chasing the style
Be a lot going on beneath the empty smile
Most cats in my area be loving the hysteria
Synthesized surface conceals the interior
America, land of opportunity, mirages and camouflages
More than usually, speaking loudly
Saying nothing, you confusing me, you losing me
Your game is twisted, want me enlisted in your usury
Foolishly, most men join the ranks cluelessly
Buffoonishly accept the deception, believe the perception
Reflection rarely seen across the surface of the looking glass
Walking the street, wondering who they be looking past
Looking gassed with them imported designer shades on
Stars shine bright, but the light rarely stays on
Same song, just remixed, different arrangement
Put you on a yacht but they won't call it a slave ship
Strangeness, you don't control this, you barely hold this
Screaming "brand new", when they just sanitized the old shyt
Suppose it's, just another clever Jedi mind trick
That they been running across stars through all the time with
I find it's distressing, there's never no in-between
We either nikkas or Kings, we either bytches or Queens
The deadly ritual seems immersed in the perverse
Full of short attention spans, short tempers, and short skirts
Long barrel automatics released in short bursts
The length of black life is treated with short worth
Get yours first, them other nikkas secondary
That type of illing that be filling up the cemetery
This life is temporary but the soul is eternal
Separate the real from the lie, let me learn you
Not strong, only aggressive cause the power ain't directed
That's why we are subjected to the will of the oppressive
Not free, we only licensed, not live, we just exciting
Cause the captors own the masters to what we writing
Not compassionate, only polite, we well trained
Our sincerity's rehearsed in stage, it's just a game
Not good, but well behaved cause the camera survey
Most of the things that we think, do or say
We chasing after death just to call ourselves brave
But everyday, next man meet with the grave/Great
I give a damn if any fan recall my legacy
I'm trying to live life in the sight of God's memory like that y'all



>>>>Lupe's career

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If Canibus was at all motivate to make "good music". He's far more interesting than Lupe. Convince him to go back to his '98 style andpair him with a competent producer and you get better music.

As a Canibus fan...he has never, and will never have a Tetsuo and Youth level album in him
 

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As a Canibus fan...he has never, and will never have a Tetsuo and Youth level album in him
I'm sure he could if he wanted. I'm glad he doesn't. I don't enjoy listening to it, so the complexity for the sake of complexity is wasted. I think I liked 2 songs max off that. If I want to hear overly complex just because shyt, I'd listen to Buhloone Mindstate. It actually sounds good.
 

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He can write his ass off but he's not a complete artist at this point. Great lyrics, solid albums, interesting concepts, still he's seemingly not interested in making hit records. He's too hard to digest for the average listener.

Comparing him to the obvious Kendrick doesn't have the same lyrical ability but can make hit records and still somewhat managed to challenge his listeners mentally. He's the artist Lupe should have been but refused to be.

To be the best others gotta recognize it not just you and your niche fans.
 

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Lupe haters in here crying as usual.

“Hov say Im Hov, Nas Say Im Nas”

:blessed:
 
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