Lupe Fiasco

the Lisa Loeb of 00s hip-hop?

Thats why I've liked his mixtapes, its that early 90s clever and down-to-earth backpacker thing. Kris Ex was actually otm about him, he's got the range and talent to make a great album but its too early to call.

but dig the digital casio!

The new DJ Envy/Lupe Chi-Town Guevera mixtape is. FUCKING. HOTTTTTT11111

i'm lovin it!

i hope this clears everything up for people.

i'm still excited for lupe!!! yahoo!

and the album cover was designed by young buck, hot shit illustrator/designer chuck anderson. one of the most copied kids out there right now. http://www.nopattern.com

deej you can hear a bunch of it on his myspace. i checked it out sounded good even thru my shitty mono speaker at work.

but that said, i think only Kick Push and Spaze Out are the only standout tracks on the album.

in all...duddish.

Most of these filler tracks that take up space between the killers have overbusy beats that still manage to be unmemorable.

I'm disappointed. I really wanted to like this.

When did "Illmatic" overtake "The Ministrel Show" in their affections?

I'm underwhelmed by Food & Liquor... I really like the leaked version I heard six months ago, but I don't know if my tastes have changed a lot or if the released version just isn't that great.

Low Points:
Jay's Verse on "Pressure," "The Instrumental"

High Points:
"Kick, Push"; "American Terrorist"

Yeah, I was a little weirded out by that. Figure he knows that Lupe's audience is different from his so he drops that clumsy Warhol reference like Ooh the college kids'll like this. And he's never been good with beats that make him rap slowly (cf. "Hustlin").

For me "Just Might Be Okay" is the abosolute killer.

I think this is like a 70/30 split, damn near classic if he had trimmed it and toyed with the sequencing a bit. Fucking intro, fucking 16 minutes of shout outs, and putting that slow track up front really soured my first few listens. Now that I've dug back into it I'm significantly happier than I was initially, but still disappointed it doesn't fulfill the promise of the leak.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v255/mygreyfriends/LPFag.gif

they say one of the songs on jigga's album will be based on some basquiat painting he owns as well.

(bagsy 'rammelljay-z' btw)

yeah or like, choosing bapes over nike. really making a statement yknow?

it's a mystery to me why people don't find lupe as trite as pharrell.

I thought that beat was crazydumbhotness!

Re: the Jay track, absolute agreement. WTF.

And you know what, fuck all that anyway because he's a killer MC. And I shouldn't even have to qualify that. The most gut-wrenching ONE BAR I've heard in hip-hop all year is from Lupe, because it's complicated subject matter phrased with a complicated rhyme scheme and full of great visuals, yet he makes it seem so EFFORTLESS:

No positive male role model/To play football or build railroad models

The new DJ Envy/Lupe Chi-Town Guevera mixtape is. FUCKING. HOTTTTTT11111

Wot? Where? How?

"check your ingredients before you overdose on...the cool"

Apparently the new record is called The Cool and will continue the story of the guy from the least entertaining song on the first album.

-- Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Friday, January 19, 2007 10:15 PM

"Dumb It Down" is awesome.

Actually the whole album ranges from good to awesome.

he was on ellen this AM

woah, really? That's surprising!

yep she had kanye on once too, kanye made the "i had to come on your show cuz i'll do anything for a blonde dyke" joke tee hee

lololololololol

Soulja Boy dude was on Ellen, too. she is single-handedly responsible for all black music in America today. i believe she also gave Ice Cube his verse on 'Straight Outta Compton' to build his confidence.

What a wonderful world this would be if the above were true!

i never lie about the ellen show

I meant the whole "Ellen gave Ice Cube his verse on 'Straight Outta Compton'" thing.

i know! i just want people to know where i stand, it's an election year

lol

My mom, last night: "Some rapper has dropped out of Last Day of Classes so he can tour with Kanye West."
Me: "What's his name?"
Her: "Now I can't think of it..."
Me: "Uh... Yung Joc? Hurricane Chris? Souja Boy? It can't be Lil Wayne."
Her: "No, it's not Lil Wayne."
Me: !

hahaha

i can't believe danzig started this thread

I can.

He's a featured artist on mtv all week

danzig?

danzig

i have some questions about this superstar joint

1) who is this tard singing the chorus?? is this the cat from one republic or coldplay dude or what?

2) why does the intro sound like old acid house? is this sampled from a guy called gerald or something?

it's some random guy lupe signed to his label

His name is Matthew Santos.

1) who is this tard singing the chorus?? is this the cat from one republic or coldplay dude or what?

false coldplay dude called matthew santos. did some bad choruses on food & liquor too.

2) why does the intro sound like old acid house? is this sampled from a guy called gerald or something?

cause fnf's in-house producers are crazy

-- and what, Thursday, 14 February 2008 19:20

xp

did some bad choruses on food & liquor too.

I'm sure I've said this before but "American Terrorist" was like my #1 keeper off that album.

Why does the beginning of the "Superstar" video look like the beginning of the "U Got the Look" video?

Lupe's bungling of Tribe Called Quest lyrics on some award show seems to have tainted him for some

lol welcome to three months ago

it did make him seem like a taint, yeah.

I think cuz he's on tour now it was getting brought up again.

Lupe's bungling of Tribe Called Quest lyrics on some award show seems to have tainted him for some

-- curmudgeon, Friday, 15 February 2008 21:04

yeah i'm a little skeptical of his 'i never heard tribe before' shit cause "paris, tokyo" sounds straight off midnight marauders.

i'm not usually one for grandstanding boycotts, but if he refuses to listen to a classic album (or several of them) out of spite or some misguided attempt to make a point, i'm happy to refuse to listen to his definitely-not-a-classic new album.

still kinda shocked at how well his new one's selling, though, even given the fact that bougie rap fans are the only kind that haven't stopped buying CDs.

rhymefest is probably rushing out his second album

I'll stand up for Superstar guy! Great hook!

even t.i. cant save this shitty song

which one?

Does it matter? There's nothing about Lupe fiasco that Ethan would like anyway.

which one?

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 10 March 2008 22:29 (4 minutes ago) Link

dude who c+p's every other song posted on Nah Right to the ringtone thread can't figure out he's talking about the "Superstar" remix w/ T.I. that just leaked today? anyway I kinda like the remix, best case scenario for anything with such a terrible beat/hook anyway.

Dan, Ethan said he liked "Kick, Push" at the beginning of this thread, so maybe he's not hating on Lupe in general, just "Superstar" (which, again, is awful).

that superstar song is fucking horrible

matthew santos is the worst

i like hearing "superstar" on the radio. not to get all okayplayer but it is kinda a breath of fresh air every now and then. jeezy is great on the remix

"Superstar" is nowhere near the best song on the album but I don't really see how it's hatable or particularly awful.

am i the only person who likes rap songs with goofy coldplay choruses like "homecoming" and "beach chair" and "superstar"

haha i mean obviously im not or i wouldnt hear this song all over the place

I like "Beach Chair," but I gotta look at every Coldplay rap tune on a case by case basis, can't generalize with these things.

all those choruses are technically good imo-- in terms of melodies and such-- i just think their voices sound off

just really thin i think

like if lupe was gonna pick a weed carrier to sing the 'superstar' hook i'd much rather have heard sarah green than matthew santos

I gotta look at every Coldplay rap tune on a case by case basis, can't generalize with these things.

-- Alex in Baltimore, Monday, March 10, 2008 4:42 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

this is otm

i heard a superstar mashup w/ bowie's "fame" last nite and laughed at myself for liking it so much but it was good!

anyone have this?

http://media.www.browndailyherald.com/media/storage/paper472/news/2008/04/01/CampusNews/Simmons.Loses.It.Attacks.Scalper.Over.Lupe.Tickets-3294877.shtml

that actually had me

Just heard dude's new album. It's actually pretty good. And I HATED his first, "Kick, Push" aside.

whos the white guy in the song - i have been wondering abt this

he shouldve gotten morrisey

its pipecock

haha

:o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s26EEQ1_nLU

^^^this song is good

matthew santos IS coldplay-ripoff man IN lupe fiasco's new record

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Birth name Matthew Santos
Born December 28, 1982 (1982-12-28) (age 25)
Origin Minneapolis, Minnesota,
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Genre(s) Rock, folk
Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter, musician, painter
Instrument(s) Vocals, guitar, piano
Years active 2007 – present
Label(s) 1st & 15th, Atlantic, CandyRat
Associated acts Lupe Fiasco
Website Matthew Santos at MySpace

Matthew Santos (born December 28, 1982) is an American rock and folk singer-songwriter, musician and painter. He is best known for his collaboration with Chicago native Lupe Fiasco on the single "Superstar". He signed to Lupe Fiasco's 1st & 15th Entertainment record label, a subsidiary of Atlantic Records.
Contents

* 1 Life and music career
o 1.1 Early years
o 1.2 Music career
o 1.3 Personal life
* 2 Discography
o 2.1 Albums
o 2.2 Singles
+ 2.2.1 As featured performer
o 2.3 Guest appearances
* 3 References and Press Interviews
* 4 External links

Life and music career

Early years

Matthew Santos was born on December 28, 1982 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His mother is Scandinavian and his father is Spanish-Filipino.

He graduated from Southwest High School in Minneapolis. He moved to Chicago in 2001 to study music composition at Columbia College Chicago. Santos released his first independent solo album Change is Better in 2004.

Music career

Santos launched the Matthew Santos Music Company in January 2008. His five-piece band includes Aviva Jaye (vocals, keyboard), Robert Tucker (drums) Graham Burris (bass) and Matthew Nelson (keyboard). He released his first live album "Matters of the Bittersweet," in November 2007 under Candy-Rat Records. Following his release of Matters of the Bittersweet, he developed a following surrounding his video performances on YouTube.

In 2006, Santos was featured on Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor album on the song "American Terrorist." Santos was featured on two additional tracks on Fiasco's following album Lupe Fiasco's The Cool, released in December 2007; "Superstar" and "Fighters." Santos performed the first single/video "Superstar" on David Letterman's first live performance after the Writer's Guild of America strike on January 2, 2008.

In 2007, Santos opened the mtvU Woodie Awards with Lupe Fiasco and Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump. In addition, Santos performed at the Las Vegas Vegoose Music Festival, Lollapalooza Chicago, SXSW, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Summerfest, Bumbershoot and Chicago's Around the Coyote Arts Festival. He headlined with Gym Class Heroes, recorded his six-song EP "As a Crow Flies" and played with The Roots, Bob Schneider and Josh Kelley.

He collaborated on John Martyn's previously unreleased folk-rock inspired ballad, "Anna." As Santos took the vocals, Martyn played the guitar and Phil Collins was featured on the drums. The reincarnation of the song will be featured on Santos' own forthcoming studio album. Santos recorded "Days Like This" with soul singer Sam Butler, Jr. from Blind Boys of Alabama and he is recording "We All Fall Down" with L. Subramaniam Most recently, Santos collaborated with Taboo from The Black Eyed Peas for his upcoming solo album.

Santos says, "I hope to inspire people through music to own their talents, take responsibility for their talents and use them, hopefully, to serve the greater good ... I want to show the world that you can do something that you love and live in this society, finding a balance between coexisting in a social construct and following your heart."

Personal life

Santos is an avid painter, writer and traveler. Santos is influenced by India's spiritual teacher Osho and a professor he had in college, William Hayashi. Hayashi is a continual inspiration for Santos on serving the greater good. He resides in Chicago's urban neighborhood Wicker Park.

Discography

Albums

* 2006: As a Crow Flies
* 2007: Matters of the Bittersweet

Singles

As featured performer
Year Song Chart positions Album
U.S. Hot 100 U.S. Pop 100 U.S. R&B
2007 "Superstar" (Lupe Fiasco featuring Matthew Santos) 10 13 19 Lupe Fiasco's the Cool

Guest appearances
Year Song Artist(s) Album
2006 "American Terrorist" Lupe Fiasco Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor
2007 "Superstar" Lupe Fiasco's The Cool
"Fighters"

References and Press Interviews

1. ^ a b c d e f Matthew Santos' MySpace page. Accessed January 2, 2008.
2. ^ Spanglish Magazine interview. Accessed March 25, 2008.
3. ^ Star Tribune interview (December 20, 2007). Accessed January 8, 2008.
4. ^ MetroMix and The RedEye interview Accessed February 15, 2008.
5. ^ Staten Island Advance interview) Accessed January 31, 2008.
6. ^ Chicago Flame interview) Accessed March 3, 2008.
7. ^ Billboard Magazine interview (January 2, 2008). Accessed January 5, 2008.
8. ^ Singersroom article (November 28, 2007) Accessed January 9, 2008.
9. ^ a b Lansing Lowdown interview (December 5, 2007). Accessed January 8, 2008.
10. ^ a b Washington Times interview (January 25, 2008). Accessed January 25, 2008,
11. ^ Pitchfork Forkcast: Matthew Santos on David Letterman (January 3, 2007). Accessed January 9, 2008.
12. ^ Columbia Chronicle interview (January 30, 2008). Accessed January 30, 2008.
13. ^ The Michigan Daily interview (December 7, 2007). Accessed January 8, 2008.
14. ^ Centerstage Chicago. Accessed January 30, 2008.
15. ^ Newcity Magazine interview (December 23, 2007). Accessed January 8, 2008.
16. ^ Artist Chart History Billboard. Accessed March 7, 2008.

External links

* Matthew Santos at IMN World.

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ever heard of hieroglyphics? or other underground hiphop artists?

Chicago's urban neighborhood Wicker Park

its only urban neighborhood

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518HW7ZQ5NL._SS500_.jpg

Josh Hartnett in Chicago's Urban Neighborhood

Chicago's dangerous, sexy, urban neighborhood Wicker Park

Chicago's dangerous, sexy, urban, very, bad, horrible, gay, neighborhood, Wicker Park

Josh Hartnett being watched boning some hot blond chick by a hot dark haired chick in Chicago's dangerous, sexy, urban, very, bad, horrible, gay, neighborhood, Wicker Park

Wicker Park was actually shot in canada, not wicker park

part of high fidelity was shot in wicker park

High Fidelity, starring Josh Hartnett, Matthew Santos and John Cusack

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby with a new Preface by Matthew Santos

"Paris, Tokyo" = summer jam.

so, I just heard "I'm Beaming"

it's terrible

like, punch-Lupe-in-the-face terrible

big ginormous frowny face

yeah when we opened for him in st peter he did a gang of new stuff and i got a bad vibe on the new album for sure

like, how do you go from the reliably fantastic second half of The Cool to some extreme bullshit like that

kanye, drake influence

Yeah, no doubt

I really just want to shake him, I was playing The Cool this weekend and it's still mostly unimpeachable (the only real weak spots are "Gold Watch" and "Paris, Tokyo")

I suppose going from playing "Little Weapon" on repeat to this tepid bullshit was dooming myself for disappointment, though

i like 'im beaming' tbh

damn son that appaloosa shit is hot fire, good looks

the original version of "Nothin' On You" is hilarious, Lupe sounds vaguely embarrassed to be on the track even though it's not really any more soft serve than a lot of the stuff on his albums

(the only real weak spots are "Gold Watch" and "Paris, Tokyo")

Those are my two favorite songs on the album.

And "I'm Beaming" is a cute song with a cuter video but not really something I'd bump all the time.

Yeah, "Gold Watch" is like the best thing on that piece of shit. "Paris, Tokyo" too.

it's not a piece of shit at all (which was quite the pleasant surprise after Food & Liquor)

Hmmmm that was my reaction to it when it came out. Should I give it another listen?

the real banger is "hip hop saved my life" which is the best song lupe has ever recorded aside from "kick, push"

it's not all good, but at least 50% is dope imo

lupe & MIA are two artists where i feel like if you delete half the shit from their two albums then you get one dope ass album

shit was "kick, push" nominated in the 05-09 poll? i should've voted for it if so

"Kick, Push" was pretty much the only good song on that album.

I liked some other stuff on that album (especially "Daydreaming" and "American Terrorist") but not enough to really want to hear more by him. Weird to hear that people like "Paris, Tokyo," always thought that was one of the worst singles I'd ever heard, dude should not be allowed to do singsong hooks.

The second half of The Cool is quite possibly my favorite stretch of music from that year (basically "Hip-Hop Saved My Life" through "Put You On Game"). Not really into "Paris, Tokyo", "High Definition" or "Gold Watch".

hip hop saved my life might even be better than kick, push...i love that song so much

you could totally slike "Paris, Tokyo" anywhere on Midnight Marauders. i'm really weirded out that someone could be actively annoyed by it, I feel like at worst it would just be inoffensive.

That's part of the problem with it; it comes across as a labored pastiche of something done 15 years earlier. It's basically the storyline of "Award Tour" mixed in with half of the beat of "Electric Relaxation" without any of the charm of either of the two source songs, plus the beat is incredibly flat compared to the other songs on the album, very few of which are actually trying to evoke a bygone era of hip-hop.

also it came out after Lupe forgot Tribe lyrics on national TV and then tried to play it off by being all whatever i never listened to them anyway, which was so lame

eh, I don't care about that; if "Paris, Tokyo" struck me as a stronger song, the ATCQ pastiching wouldn't bother me

THIS

FUCKING

GUY

http://wearenotlosers.com/

i think this may have sparked the egypt protests

this is a fun thread to reread

didn't he say he was retiring 4 albums ago or something

THIS

FUCKING

GUY

He's officially gone from somewhat awful with flashes of excitement to just being completely awful.

yah this album is a total load

that is disappointing but not unexpected

DJP, is there anything redeeming on this? i recall you being Lupe's #1 apologist the last two albums (frankly yr enthusiasm was what made me listen in the first place, found 'em hit & miss tho)

First album was great imo. Second was just a ghost of the first. The new one is different animal, but it's a rodent with rabies and I'm calling Animal Control to come take it away.

LOL!!!!!!

The Cool gets a really hard time but it has plenty of good moments, I always thought Go Baby would have been a huge hit for him if it had been put out as a single. It wasn't as good as the debut which is pretty solid apart from the never ending last song where he says thanks to everyone he's ever met.

I listened to Lasers this afternoon and thought it sounded okay to begin with but my about track five I was just desperate for it to end, it seemed to get worse as it went on. I have a big problem with the artwork too, did he really think that looked clever?

http://www.alltshirts4you.com/images/Anarchy-Logo.jpg

lololo

All I've heard so far is "I'm Beaming" and some other horrendous piece of shit that made me decide I am going to focus on my positive memories of The Cool.

A rapper who wears glasses in his video, how refreshing.

― danzig (danzig), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 16:03 (4 years ago)

LOL not really novel any more huh

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61JC483JP0L.jpg

All I've heard so far is "I'm Beaming" and some other horrendous piece of shit that made me decide I am going to focus on my positive memories of The Cool.

Considering "I'm Beaming" isn't even on here, you are much better off focusing elsewhere.

i wish he would have somehow let us know this was going to be a fiasco

what a fiasco for lupe disaster

"As Lupe tells it, "Strange Fruition" is a re-imagining of "Strange Fruit" by Billie Holiday. "It's about slaves in the south, and how they looked like strange fruit in the south. Which is funny, because the song was written by a white guy," says Lupe. "The fruit has ripened in 2012, it's still just as strange, just as odd, among the other layers in the song. That's the "America" portion of the album."

http://hiphopwired.com/2012/08/23/8-things-you-must-know-about-lupe-fiascos-food-liquor-2-the-great-american-rap-album-pt-1/2/

this fuckin guy

you know, I read that comment and really didn't parse it until you said "this fuckin guy"

That's the "America" portion of the thread.

u_u

as opposed to the "great" portion of the album

have we observed that the album cover idea was stolen from spinal tap

I dunno -- Lupe himself is stolen from Spinal TAp

second response hall of fame up there

'An example of the split of the album is evident in its introductory track, "Strange Fruition (The Art Of Falling Off)." The first voice you hear on the album is a speech by James Baldwin on the "N-Word" and how it is a word created by Americans. "We invented the word N-Word, white people invented it," says Baldwin on the track before the Soundtrakk-produced beat drops. The song sets the pace for the album not as a return to form of the old Lupe from Food And Liquor, but as an evolution to what he is now. He's backing up his bold statements of our homeland with facts from historians.'

i thought this revive would be for the SPIN thing

spin thing chat is in the spin thread

so... Food & Liquor II appears to be a boring, poorly conceived exercise in concern-trolling

no real surprises there, I guess

He's backing up his bold statements of our homeland with facts from historians.'

The thing that made The Cool work for me was so many of the songs were told from the standpoint of a character, whether it was Lupe himself talking about how much he sucks at Street Fighter II or vignettes about child soldiers or epidemics or a dude struggling to make it in the rap game; he was telling a story, and there was an implied moral viewpoint but you didn't need to subscribe to it, and the points where there was an explicit moral viewpoint were tied up in crazy allusions and wordplay (see: "Dumb It Down").

This has been replaced by songs like "Audobon Ballroom" with this immortal chorus:

Now white people
Can't say 'nigga'
Sorry gotta take it back
Now black people
We're not niggas
Cuz God made us better than that

DROP THAT SCIENCE, LUPE

ffs no one wanted you to rap MORE like Kanye, you moron

oh my god and "Bitch Bad" actually makes me want to smack my head against a brick wall

seriously how do you even make a song like this and not go "huh, not only is this condescending paternalistic Marc Loiism to the nth degree, but it also sounds like hot trash in July"

how is this the same person who wrote "Dumb It Down"

has he been smoking a lot of weed, is that what happened?

Eh, what the hell, I'll defend this record. I can't rep for "Bad Bitch" and some of the sillier songs on the second half of the disc, but the first side has a great energy. It's spirited and funny, and for the first time in a while Lupe sounds open to the suggestion that maybe he's opinions aren't the end all be all. He seems more self-aware than his obnoxious online presence would have you believe, and I like the way he #KanyeShrugs his way through some of his stupidier positions (not voting, calling the president a terrorist). Plus the production is really good. All in all way better than I could have expected from post-Lasers Lupe.

huh

I didn't even make it to the second half of the album because I found the first half so self-important and stupid, so I can't even imagine what the second half must be like

Second half has some bad love songs and some misguided features, and it just goes on too long. But I think you're missing the humor in the record, taking some things at face value that aren't meant to be. That's probably Lupe's fault—he puts his foot in his mouth so much these days—but I think he finds a good balance on this album between serious Lupe and just fucking around Lupe

one of the worst things about "Bitch Bad" is the smirking "ah, the plot thickens" attemps at levity

So many bad things about "Bad Bitch" I couldn't even list them, but the "reading from a teleprompter" flow is a deal breaker, too. Also the story just makes no damn sense.

"Bitch Bad," excuse me. Allergy med season has me typo-ing like crazy

there's a local radio DJ who intros the song like "let's get into some new lupe, bad beeeeeyotch" with zero irony

hahahaha. The weird thing is Lupe uses "bitch" in a non-ironic, non-deconstructed way on the album, too. Granted he doesn't direct it at women, but it just muddles his already confused argument that much more

His "I'm killing these bitchesssss!" adlib is maybe the only part of that song I like. It's legitimately funny, and it makes an argument more cleanly in about two seconds than he's able to in 48 bars

Lupe 2016

Haha, I was actually thinking of you when that story broke.

So did I!

he'll only be 34, dammit

LF was tweeting about social revolution, Marxist analysis of technology etc and retweeting others doing the same, then came this: https://twitter.com/LupeFiasco/status/333713212933562368. RIP Lupe, brutally silenced by capitalist apparatchiks.

my favorite part of this is that the account now constantly retweets people who praise lupe, including one person who likes him "because he doesn't sugar code"

I am under the impression that Tetsuo & Youth is kind of awesome. I own no previous LP LPs but I am going to probably pick this one up. What does ILX think of it? It's getting solid reviews elsewhere...

i think it's surprisingly good compared to his last 2 albums but not necessarily that great by any other measure, and definitely not as good as Food & Liquor

lol the first post in this thread

i like food & liquor! well, i played most of it anyway. and liked it. never heard it. that's all i got...

Tetsuo and Youth is an amazing album that has depth to it but is very easily digestible, it goes down smooth, real smooth. Highly recommended.

i enjoy "kick push" very much

Listening to the Lasers LP now.

Ahh someone please help. There's an awesome Lupe song that's like 7 or 8?min long and the piano on it is so dope, it just kind of develops and progress and then the song ends with him singing in harmony with himself. Can't find it anywhere after I first listened to it!!!

Tetsuo & Youth had been a highlight of hip hop in 2015, when I was still distantly following new releases.
I'm playing it back now and I find it literally brilliant with its combination of chill long tracks and great bass lines. I can sip on it. It also really sounds like Kanye West if he was not bipolar and talented at rap (the influence is pretty obvious, back then I was thinking more of Cunninlynguists' Oneirology).
Has ILX considered doing a POLL of 2010s hip hop ?

I agree that its a great and even underrated album

I missed Lupe's set Friday night at Yankee Stadium - it took three hours to leave my place and get into Yankee Stadium, and when I finally got in, Common was finishing up - but I've been catching up today via the livestream that's still up. He's at 02:25:00 (whole show was eight hours long):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgGyYGPTXCg

Great set, I especially love the stage shots where you see Yankee Stadium in front of him - is this the biggest audience he ever had for a solo performance? Thought it was sweet how he said he felt like a rookie at an All-Star Game, but he lives up to the moment - it never ceases to amaze me how he'll unleash a torrent of words on every single verse that never seems to stop. Really amazing breath control.