Lupe Fiasco On Fine Art, Owning His Masters, Juneteenth, + Drill Music In Zion 

100%. This man's music has evolved to an entirely new level

Modern Lupe is peak Lupe fr fr

I believe he he ran with his record company he would be in that era making dubstep raps 😂

True statement

@eughhk only black thought

@@cozierferret7274 cap.

Agreed. Lupe's a lyrical monster with insane storytelling, crazy metaphors/entendres, and great substance matter (from drugs/violence to religion, prostitution, parental absence, etc). He's a poet that's leagues above most rappers.

@@darrel7589 but even Jay Z said Lupe has the best pen

Absolutely NOBODY can match Lu's pen game. Name the songs from one artist that are on the same level as, Deliver, The Coolest, Daydreaming, WAV Files, Body of Work, American Terrorist, Game Time, Adoration of the Magi, (mothafucking!) Mural, Manillas, ect... Would keep going but phone on 2% 🤦

For sure!!!!

Yup. Arguably the best lyricist of all time

Frfr "i ain't gotta say it to say it talk spicy like the house of atreus"

#1

🔥what you know about that, my boy

@@Father_Son_Gaming atreides?

Absolutely, he really walked the interviewer through the labyrinth they were dabbin' at.

He's literally the example for what black artist should be he's the mold evolved MC/rapper/artist.

You are correct.

I remember waiting on his first album to come out, how happy we were when we got it.

I remember hating on Lupe on Twitter before hearing F&L and becoming officially a fan. Now he's in my top 5 if not 3 🙏🙏

Thats where its from!! I knew it was from a song lol

Nah same bro. I spent a few mins wondering what this reminded me of then I thought of kick push😂😂

Yeah, I was thinking about that too. Lol 😂

Yeah, he said it in exactly same way.

For convos like this that’s clever

Yeah that was a huge gem bro. Got me searching sync licensing for my music.

A lot of people aren't used to black men of wit and charisma. It's often taken as arrogance or defensiveness. With some people I'm convinced niggas that hate Lu gonna find a way to hate Lu.

@@ArcChristelle Nah the Rock has wit & charisma but doesn't act an asshole like Lupe does..

@@ArcChristelle this is absolute facts. Lu has his pedigree while also maintaining a core charisma and mission statement throughout his career. And he will put a mirror up right in front of those same n i g g a s and they get pressed about it. He's still, to this day, my favorite artist that came out of the 2000s.

Most Intellectuals are abrasive

Great album. For me, The Cool is his magnum opus.

Best album oat

@@djangostarr1145 facts same here!!

Nothing but facts! That CRS would’ve been another one from that era if it had the chance to materialize

He is in my Top 3

Drogas wave is my fav

MASTERPIECE BRO!!!

just saw him live yesterday and he's unbelievable. fave show ever

@@Dexcellence Bro, that's dope. How long you been a Lupe fan?

This issue in rap about who the Goat is, is corny to me. There always has to be a number one. To me different rap Artists do different things. Nas is a great storyteller, Scarface is a great story teller, Eminem is great at lyricism, Tech9ne is a great all around Artist who makes a variety of music, lyrical, high energy, emotional, Busta Rhymes is similar, Lupe is great at triple entredres, lyrically layered content, Currensy is the Vibe King, a one man playlist, Lil Wayne is the eccentric lyricist, Kendrick the poetic lyricist, JCole the Everyman, I could go on and on but each artist enchances the genre and I can't say one is the better than them all Let's appreciate our Artists but everyone has their favorites.

FAL is.

Na drill music is intelligent is a reach dawg

Yeah, I mean all hip hop comunity is weird, you had maybe the best lyrics of all time and the best rapper of the last decade and don’t put respect in Lupes name.

I feel the same, though he's said he's fine. he's gotten his flowers 💐 from goats and other greats in hip-hop

He gets the hype he deserves

He's dopest rapper I would be annoyed by in real life.

Yeah this aint the first time I’ve heard ppl say they saw lupe on the new york subway. Hes humble

could have sold a painting for a quarter mil*. still dope though

@@MacLaw3084 No, he sold it. He said he's thinking about donating the money or not. Listen better.

@@branching123 nope, listen better, he said he got offered the quarter mill and declined so that’s what it’s worth. He said he might donate it implying down the line when it sells

I went back to this interview. He actually did say he was thinking about it. Not that he actually sold. Who knows by now. Still dope though. Either way, don’t bicker over a minute point y’all. Chill 😆 ✌🏾

I just meant like his first album in 4 years lol. I wasnt tryna throw any shade or act like he fell off.

I agree 💯🐐

Very easy to make an argument for it

💯‼️

Aighhhhhht

Gang

I'm at that point where anything Lupe is putting out whether within the art space or outside of it I'm gladly in tuned with it

I need the drops ya'll

THEE GREATEST I SAID WAT I SAID 🤷🏽‍♂️

@@chickenbobtv3052 and you’re right right

Dumb it down is timeless, The Cool is Timeless, Drogas Wave is a such a amazing album.

Facts

@@IAM1OUTOF60 true

That is facts I'm passing up on money for that convo fe

Both are materpieces you don't have to downplay one to prop up the other. Just say you prefer Lupe's album.

SUPER FACTS. WHAYS CRAZY I LOOK AT THE FIRST HALF OF DROGAS THE SAME WAY. 💯

It’s great. Mist def great. But the build up nd rollout helped. Nd it lived up to that build up. His videos production etc were all up nd he delivered a beautiful album.

I absolutely agree

MBDTF is a modern day authenticated classic.

lol He said it has nothing to do with drill music. It's related to the movie The Matrix.

Jayz and kanye wanted to sign this man "you aint gotta say you the realest when nigha already think you are MUAH"

@@markbrunache648 Did you listen to it. It's entirely about Drill Music and it's ills on the people who consume it.

@@nyrisj lol I hear you. I guess I have to take back my statement. I was saying in this interview, Lu said out of his own mouth that it has nothing to do w/ drill music.

He is the GOAT Lyricist

Gospel! 🤲

A Legit GOAT. Perhaps the most talented rapper...EVER.👍✅ No disrespect to 3000 whose no.1 on my list.

slow down young fella lol

@@t.wynderogriffin798 Lupe is definitely better than 3000

@@abaileyjr97 why 3000 specifically lol

Same lol had to stop what I was doing for this

I knew he wouldn't stay away from the industry for long, the rap game needs him. He def was going thru a dark period at the time, he just had to get off Atlantic to find that creative energy again.

The best

You misspelled the word "best"

I'm all over his ig lives on RU-vid. It's amazing. Hours of real talk

I’m so glad someone acknowledges this

Exactly how I feel about that project.

Is it really that good? I'm lookin for new music. Drill Music in Zion is 🔥

@@DonYoGi8331 Listen to it. Try and decode it. Its got so many easter eggs. Actualy masterpiece of an album

Agreed, but as far as “progressive hip hop” I think Kanye west MBDTF belongs up there too when it comes to pushing the genre forward

"Mural" is a Master class in lyricism.

@@IAM1OUTOF60 100% insane

Tetsuo n youth

Eh, Mural was cool at first but the word play gets a little extra at some point. If Mural is crazy to you, then Aesop Rock (who I'm not a big fan of) would blow your mind.

Mural Jr is better

Lupe getting publicity is what got him cancelled in the first place. But his ideas are a bit more widely accepted now that we're further removed from Obama.

Join the reddit page

@@screamingeagle11b I’m on there shoutout 79watch I know he hype seeing this lol

@@screamingeagle11b what’s it call

It's fine art, you only think he deserves a different outcome because you think he's supposed to be like everybody else.....He's not Drake, he's Shakespere

I still blame it on his record company (was it Atlantic?) that had him push out Lasers instead of LupEND. It just killed his momentum after The Cool despite, ironically, being pushed as a more "mainstream" album

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The purpose of a great artist is not fame but the impact he has on his fans … Lupe fans can care about he being super famous

He deserves more American success but for sure he eats crazy overseas. They’ve loved him for like 20 years over there. He’s pretty famous

Just like his music, he can go from a mainstream hip hop song like Next To It straight to a fine art song like Mural the very next year, and he seems perfectly at home in both spaces. And he brings that intelligence into even the mainstream records without making it pretentious or preachy.

Me Three.....

He vowed to never do another interview again.. and here he is!

His record label (Atlanta Label) cause depression it was toxic environment, they try to sign him 360 deals, even when he was sick…he had pneumonia when he was at the hotel that night his mum and sis when to the Grammys to collects his award for best duo song. Later he was blackballed and not many artist would collab with him.

☮️💖🙏🏾💯

Chill. Go listen to G Rap

@@jasgill7121 go listen to the song "Mural", thank me later...

I think MF DOOM can be argued, but yeah, this man is a top tier lyricist

Gospel! 🤲

@@Lankzino Even Lupe would agree with that anyone who dont believe look it up. Lupe said he thinks MF is THE best.

I think its better than The Cool, T&Y doesn’t have filler. He talked about the painting in a DJ Skee interview when the album dropped in 2015, if i’m not mistaken the painting used for the T&Y cover is called The Man Eating Tiger.

@@MysticMayne Tetsuo & Youth is a more "cohesive" album with lighter sounding production, but The Cool is the more "accessible" album with a lot of replay value Hip Hop Saved My Life, Superstar, Dumb it Down, Streets on Fire, Little Weapon, The Coolest, darker sounding production. The Cool is to Drogas Wave as Food & Liquor is to Tetsuo & Youth.

@@koolkai4299 Lighter production?!?! Mural, Blur My Hands, Body of Work, Chopper, Prisoner, Madonna, No Scratches, T.R.O.N don’t have light production and thats over half the tracklist. The Cool is only somewhat accessible due to it being a single driven album, Atlantic could’ve tried to push more singles honestly, i find it funny one of the best tracks on the The Cool was a bonus track called Blackout if you bought it at Circuit City and it definitely wasn’t a single. What about The Cool also having filler whilst T&Y doesn’t. Anyway, i hope you’re not saying The Cool is better because it was more accessible, as if that equates to quality. All eyes were him at the time but its unfortunate because 2014-15 Lu can easily rap circles around his 2006-07 self. Tetsuo & Youth and Food & Liquor are his best in my opinion though, to each his own i guess.

Someone's been sleep lol but that's better. You get to listen to his music with new ears. He got some classics in his catalog

go back and listen to his work. not EVERY single project is good or great, despite what most Lupe super fans say, and i consider myself a big day one fan. but Food & Liquor is my all time favorite hiphop/rap album, but The Cool is very good as well (personally i can do with out “Lazers” and “Drogas Light”). But to really know him you absolutely must listen to his early mixtapes.

@@MacLaw3084 true. The mixtapes from back in the day are gems

I haven't made it past precious things.... I've listened to it over and over and over for two days

Nicca look like him. Lmao 🤣

Bodied his ass

Can't sleep at night lol And I know that nigga Royce can't either smh

Lupe was on that niggas head top. Had royce copping pleas on ig talking bout lupe took it far and looking for help from his rap peers smh. Him and mickey verbally assaulted him.

Number one of mine list as well

I feel like the theme in Drill Music in Zion is very similar to Tetsuo & Youth. The duality of life. Finding the good in the bad, finding balance. Seeing that there is a Mural song on T&Y, Drogas Wave and now DMIZ, this is like and unofficial trilogy of albums that blend well together

Soundtrakk is probably the most consistent yet varied producer I have ever heard. Every track he's ever done with Lupe was fire and none of them sound alike.

AOTY imo

Zion is a suburb of Chicago. The drill music in Zion is raw

I adore Lupe but yea, he’s got a whole bag of lays on his shoulder fr

Add Black Thought and Tobe Nwigwe

@@celestialnubian 🔥

What’s the time stamp

Dope azz album... I've listened to previous things a thousand times... And it made me stop sad... All the destructive things we do with our hands... Like pull triggers... Kidnap... Fight... But we need them so much... I can't get past the brilliance is that song

Same here, Lupe South African life fan 🌍

Meta is bigger than the mind. It's a perception of something greater than your senses, which dominant European philosophy interprets anything that can perceived by the 5 senses as not objective.

Just listened to him. A meta-narrative is like a grand truth about the world that cannot be scientifically (social) tested.

@@DubG9 Definitely, I just wrote it in that way as a simple definition because Lupe didn't really articulate it the best way.