that song w/ snoop is hot b/c snoop is on it. “dumb it down” is pretty genius. “hip hop saved my life” is another jewel. “little weapon” is another dope concept.
So I need someones help. On the song Streets on Fire, is that Lupe singing the “Death
is on the tip of her tongue and dangers at the tip of her fingers. Streets Are On Fire To-Night.
At first I thought it was an old song but on some lyrics site it says its Lupe.
Lupe is very overrated IMO…. I mean, the man can rap - but his music is just so damn boring to me. Just like Little Brother. I just don’t see the x-factor in any of these.
But what do I know?
I haven’t heard the new album but I heard some songs that have been up on youtube (Superstar and Dumb It Down)
A lot of his music just doesn’t make sense to me. It sounds nice, but I either don’t get the metaphor or something.
“The Instrumental” was a good song, I liked that, but “Dumb It Down” and “What It Do”, it sounds like a lot of it is said to rhyme and sound nice, but not all that meaningful to me.
He’s a great storyteller and rapper, but a lot of his music just doesn’t click. Nevertheless, I respect most of his music.
Ankur87 said:“Dumb It Down” and “What It Do”, it sounds like a lot of it is said to rhyme and sound nice, but not all that meaningful to me.
He’s a great storyteller and rapper, but a lot of his music just doesn’t click. Nevertheless, I respect most of his music.
This is basically the space I’m in when it comes to Lupe and similar acts.
Because he really DOES make good music, it’s just that people have a tendency to declare that every Lup/Kan song pressed “IS JUS SO MEENINGFUL!!” because it features punchlines and sounds benign (no stereotypically “negative” content).
That said…I’m genuinely like about half the tracks. Wish several were longer. Can’t say I like the album as a whole, but I’m going to give it some time.
Trying to get past how he PLAYED ATCQ at Hip-Hop Honors. Midnight Maurauders redefined hip hop for me in 93 and it was bad enough that he BUTCHERED thier songs but the way he handled it afterwords just about put me on the Fuck Lupe bandwagon. I know it sounds strange, but dissing the legends is one way a dope artist can lose me. I’ve heard good things bout this record, so I might check it out, but I’m kind of apprehensive about supporting this cat.
haha the ultimate hipster rapper
they should change their collabo group name to that instead of child rebel soldier
I must say I disagree wholheartedly.
All I had to do was hear his album once to know it was the best shit bar none this whole year. You could be on that LupYe PharrelSco buhshit during his arrival and even after his first album, but at this point if you’re still gonna hate you gotta come up with something new, cause it simply doesn’t apply. Lupend is the end of it, so you will all be happy when he’s done after 3 super fuckin official albums. Hipster isn’t a word to me, I don’t give a fuck about that shit.
ill_spec said:Trying to get past how he PLAYED ATCQ at Hip-Hop Honors. Midnight Maurauders redefined hip hop for me in 93 and it was bad enough that he BUTCHERED thier songs but the way he handled it afterwords just about put me on the Fuck Lupe bandwagon. I know it sounds strange, but dissing the legends is one way a dope artist can lose me. I’ve heard good things bout this record, so I might check it out, but I’m kind of apprehensive about supporting this cat.
Word
I don’t care if he listened to them or not but why the fuck would he do a tribute if he didn’t really care about them? Then he gonna show disrespect by not even knowin the right lyrics.
Shit was real dumb of him, but whatever I’ll give his album a shot when i see it next time.
haha the ultimate hipster rapper
they should change their collabo group name to that instead of child rebel soldier
I must say I disagree wholheartedly.
All I had to do was hear his album once to know it was the best shit bar none this whole year. You could be on that LupYe PharrelSco buhshit during his arrival and even after his first album, but at this point if you’re still gonna hate you gotta come up with something new, cause it simply doesn’t apply. Lupend is the end of it, so you will all be happy when he’s done after 3 super fuckin official albums. Hipster isn’t a word to me, I don’t give a fuck about that shit.
Sorry.
never said I hated him
and yes I do like his music, but too bad if you can’t take jokes
and just because I think he is a hipster, I must think he’s a bad rapper?
don’t think so
and as to how the guy did slip up BIG TIME this year: he said to the world that he’s never heard ATCQ’s music, then went on about how Q-Tip personally asked him to perform the hip hop honors when he didn’t and topped it off with fucking up the lyrics and performing the song half assed
then he went on to choke a woman at a club a few months after
followed that up with being disrespectful to his audience at his UCI show
not relating that to the ATCQ affair, but he did do some stuff to make me lost some respect for him, despite his music being good
haha the ultimate hipster rapper
they should change their collabo group name to that instead of child rebel soldier
I must say I disagree wholheartedly.
All I had to do was hear his album once to know it was the best shit bar none this whole year. You could be on that LupYe PharrelSco buhshit during his arrival and even after his first album, but at this point if you’re still gonna hate you gotta come up with something new, cause it simply doesn’t apply. Lupend is the end of it, so you will all be happy when he’s done after 3 super fuckin official albums. Hipster isn’t a word to me, I don’t give a fuck about that shit.
Sorry.
Calm down there, Sparky. Your LupYe PharrelSco button is in the mail.
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