Lupe Fiasco - DROGAS Light (Discussion Thread)

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Off first listen this is his most "enjoyable" (meaning he sounds like he's having a lot of fun on the mic and not too weighed down by label politics and life bullshyt) project in years.

Sonically a lot of the songs sound like they would have been right at home on T&Y

Lupe is absolutely the best lyricist to ever grace the mic since Nas/GZA/Black Thought
Can't wait to cop this.
 

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I see what he's going for on this one. Not really my cup of tea but I can see people loving this. Too many trap beats with no direction off first listen. I'm more of a Tetsuo & Youth fan of Lupe. I like the intricate thought provoking deep shyt u have to break down. That's the side of Lupe's music I'd check for. But I'm not hating on this. It's just not my thing.
 

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Give Lupe a few years and his Youthful Expression will begin to decay :mjgrin:

Never :ufdup:
 

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I'll be going from Kill to More Than My Heart for the most part.

Songs 10-13 are my least favorite kind of Lupe Fiasco song. At least he put them all together and didn't spread them with the other piff that is on here.

I honestly could see myself removing those pop songs and just making a Playlist without them.

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This album is tailor made for the Lupe critic that has said...

"Lupe can't make a song without being too complex"

"Lupe is just a rappity rap rapper"

"Lupe can't make mainstream records"

"Lupe isn't capable of having fun anymore"

:mjgrin:

Real Lupe fans knew he could easily make these kind of records but just didn't choose to do them in abundance.

He's consistently dropped conscious creative straight forward records his entire career. From He Say She Say, to HipHop Saved My Life, to bytch Bad, Hood Now, to Next 2 It, to Deliver, to what we have here. Even when he scales the lyricism back the message still connects with the listener.

I just wish he would kill Pop Lupe. Easily the worst songs in his catalog are his pop ones.
 
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Just as I expected, album is wack.

And T&Y was my album of 2015.

Kill is such a dope ass song tho. More of that please.

I'll give it another spin down the line tho.
 

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-It's a dope album to add to the collection. This album is perfect for systems and just chillin.

-I wish Dopamine Lit was one of those 6 min + songs where he just flows forever like mural

-We gotta kill the DROGAS talk; let's be real, knowing his track record that's not coming out till 2018 at the earliest
 
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