Lupe Fiasco - Dumb It Down appreciation thread

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

'The Cool' is one of my all time favorite albums...

used to drive around in highschool smoking blunts and listening to thecool front to back

 

[NoHalfWay]

not to cool now is you nikka

While the background music is foreshadowing the next chapter

chilly chills everytime

"This life goes passing you by
You diiiiiiiiieeee...."

Then enters into "Put You On Game"

Album is genius

 

[SirBiatch]

Soundtrakk is hella underrated as a producer, real versatile.

This beat is fukking incredible.

Is anyone else reminded of this beat when listening to Art of Peer Pressure on gkmc?

100%

Ducktales the type to copy Eminem, Lupe, Nicki Minaj and Andre 3000 but credit his influences to Pac, Jayz, Biggie and Nas - people he doesn't sound a thing like. Meanwhile his stans eat it up.

 

[NoHalfWay]

This beat is fukking incredible.



100%

Ducktales the type to copy Eminem, Lupe, Nicki Minaj and Andre 3000 but credit his influences to Pac, Jayz, Biggie and Nas - people he doesn't sound a thing like. Meanwhile his stans eat it up.

Precisely.

Now if only you dropped that stubborn, retarded ass contrarian fukkboy posting style and recognize the greatness that is Lupe Fiasco.

 

[Pop123]

Greatness



This man wasn’t on the Top 50 list.

Best lyricist ever? Check (arguably)
Grammy winning artist? Check
Sold a lot of records? Check
Acclaimed? Check
Great bodies of work? Check

Not Top 50 ever…Jim Jones surely agrees. He didn’t make nigs wanna be smart or skateboard or learn martial arts like him, etc and he wasn’t a sex symbol…that’s all that matters.

 

[Mr. Negative]

Greatness



This man wasn’t on the Top 50 list.

Best lyricist ever? Check (arguably)
Grammy winning artist? Check
Sold a lot of records? Check
Acclaimed? Check
Great bodies of work? Check

Not Top 50 ever…Jim Jones surely agrees. He didn’t make nigs wanna be smart or skateboard or learn martial arts like him, etc and he wasn’t a sex symbol…that’s all that matters.

He in my top 2 behind Nas from a logical/non-biased standpoint (logically, his style can be too....dense for a casual listener, which can alienate said listener)

but at this point, he my personal GOAT. Lupe pre-Food and Liquor is possibly the GREATEST MC to ever live. The only thing your list is missing is "Albums with themes/tell stories". And SOME folks actually use this for a benchmark as far as "classic" albums go.

How many ultra high level MCs actually dropping albums like The Cool? DROGAS Waves? Hell, Tetsuo and Youth than can be played forward AND backwards and tell a different story? (certain more popular artists did this to a far lesser degree afterwards and the public knobslobbed them for it)

Pharaoh Height shyts on a lotta rappers whole careers, and that's a mixtape he dropped out of boredom.

Lu been on a totally different level since 2005.