Lupe Fiasco Voices His Opinion On IG About Drake, Meek Mill & Ghostwriting

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Didnt lu give airplanes to b.o.b. and another song?
Nah, Nothing on You and Airplanes were Atlantic records that they initially pushed to Lupe pre-Lasers release... Lupe and Atlantic had their feud, so the label then turned around and gave those songs with the singer's vocals on the hooks to B.o.B.
 

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After hearing that reference 10 Band track... :patrice:

For me, I never saw Drake as one of the best lyrical MCs... but I did think he was on top of the game when it came to the hooks/flows and creative choruses for his hits. If he's really getting shyt spoon fed to him like that song where everything that I mentioned is bought by him, then it matters to me at least. Makes me think, how many of these songs where the hooks grab you off bat weren't created by him.
 

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No ghost writer, no summertime...at least not the summertime that we know.

The trade off is nobody is going to ever rank Will Smith in a serious, all time MC list. And that's even with him doing HIS thing on the first two albums.

That crown shyt...that "never the flow" shyt is over for Drake.

How is it over? You telling me it's 100% or nothing?
 

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After hearing that reference 10 Band track... :patrice:

For me, I never saw Drake as one of the best lyrical MCs... but I did think he was on top of the game when it came to the hooks/flows and creative choruses for his hits. If he's really getting shyt spoon fed to him like that song where everything that I mentioned is bought by him, then it matters to me at least. Makes me think, how many of these songs where the hooks grab you off bat weren't created by him.

I wasn't a fan from the jump so I don't care beyond just general disdain for puppets. But if he's gonna be like Kanye and be the OVO orchestrator then cool...just keep it funky, and start giving them nikkas some shine.

Last name ever...first name greatest...nikka did you even write that? :mjlol:

:camby::camby::camby::camby::camby::camby::camby::camby::camby::camby::camby::camby:
 

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If you as a rapper love the art, how could you not come out strongly condemning Drake's antics?

It should be an easy point to make. Don't need to harp on it. Just call it was it is and keep it moving.

These nikkas back-handling implying this Drake shyt is not that surprising to them is very surprising to me. Maybe @Art Barr was right after all those years of incoherent rambles about 80% of the industry not writing most of their rhymes.
them you have to condemn dr dre, kanyne and 70% of other rappers
 

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Yes . 100% or nothing.
If reference tracks start dropping for Nas,Jay-Z, Pac,Biggie
Pun, Black Thought, Mos Def, Phaoroahe Monch etc.

Their standing drops considerably for me.
We applaud them because they're supposed to be
skilled song writers not skilled actors memorizing someone
else's lines.
 
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them you have to condemn dr dre, kanyne and 70% of other rappers
Kanye West and Dre came in the game as producers. Everybody knew that they weren't rappers, and they didn't boast about being the best lyrical rappers either. It's always been common knowledge that Kanye collabs with artists all the time and prides himself as a guy that can mesh unexpected sounds together.

Drake came in as a rapper, and he was never seen in the same light as a Kanye West. Drake fans are reaching with the comparison.
 

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How is it over? You telling me it's 100% or nothing?

It's over because it's been made public.

This ain't like when Skillz was threatening to put nikkas on blast with bleeped out names, or even Budden exposing his time in the writing pools.

The last 4 or 5 reference tracks I've heard were for Dre projects that may or may not see the light of day. Now we're hearing one for someone who's supposed to be Jay Z's lyrical pop star successor. Pop crowd won't really care but whatever validation he was looking for as a legitimate MC legacy is kinda out the window for a lot of people.
 
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I wasn't a fan from the jump so I don't care beyond just general disdain for puppets. But if he's gonna be like Kanye and be the OVO orchestrator then cool...just keep it funky, and start giving them nikkas some shine.

Last name ever...first name greatest...nikka did you even write that? :mjlol:

:camby::camby::camby::camby::camby::camby::camby::camby::camby::camby::camby::camby:
Come on Breh you still co-sign em after them racist tapes dropped:drakewtf:
 

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It's going to be funny when Jay reference tracks leak one day :mjpls:

It would be a big deal but it still wouldn't be this.

He never had much history or much of a resume besides showing up and blowing up. I'm not gonna speculate about "plants" whatever but someone with a fortified history in the culture would have more of a cushion for something like this.
 

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Come on Breh you still co-sign em after them racist tapes dropped:drakewtf:

I'm not sure what racist tapes have to do with who's writing or reciting who's raps breh.
 
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