Lupe Fiasco - Failure

[Chip Skylark]

I can’t decide which track is more raw Failure or Lupe The Killer

Lupe The Killer he was talking that shyt breaking down real street origins and still nikkas ain’t catch it over 15 years later

When it comes to slick hood hustling talk early to mid 2000’s Lupe was just as clever and sharp as prime Hov no cap

That 3rd verse of Lupe the killer

Since my entrance, my nikkas had packs
They moved em to a trap like Winston
Far from bustas, baby nah
All my homies henchmen
I was the rhymer, my talk went through the walls like Slimer
Or like, eating vagina
Or, a stray bullet, whichever ways I put it
Crooks was hooked like crooks through neighborhoods I pushed it
Little Caesar nikkas pizzas was like "book it"
Delivery mean like Leroy Green

 

[jwinfield]

nikka floated on tracks while spitting shyt that would take countless listens to fully comprehend.

I remember playing it in my car like two years after the song came out, heard a line went

 

[Monoblock]

Yea man this shyt was amazing and completely floored me when I first heard it. One of if not my favorite Lupe song. His pen should be illegal from the shyt he writes. Someone did another breakdown video of Mural

 

[Monoblock]

“For that quiet nikka that relocated down south, coming back to floss”

nikka get your molars right
Fix your grill
No plaque but a whole lot of cheese, this the drill
Mr. Chill gave me the green light like Yoda knife

Wordplay just disgusting

You gotta finish the rest of that to see how absolutely disgusting and how far he took it.

Of course you will
Take my time but wait behind only pertains to that Porsche grill
It's snakes in the hood, gotta watch for that cobra bite
Let me see, there's snakes in the hood
A bird, a horse behind the grill
Some gator on the seat and a fox behind the wheel
No it's not Noah's ark (ark), It's just a flo-wer's start

 

[jwinfield]

You gotta finish the rest of that to see how absolutely disgusting and how far he took it.

Of course you will
Take my time but wait behind only pertains to that Porsche grill
It's snakes in the hood, gotta watch for that cobra bite
Let me see, there's snakes in the hood
A bird, a horse behind the grill
Some gator on the seat and a fox behind the wheel
No it's not Noah's ark (ark), It's just a flo-wer's start

 

[Cadillac]

You see world
It’s Braille here
I’m Bumpy Johnson, I stick to the streets
Keep my dogs out in front of me
You see what I’m saying
And I push keys wonderfully

Man the way Lu can take wordplay, build a mataphor around it, and extend it for a couple of lines is something only he can do

Lupe's writing techniques are really extordinary and unique to where his style of rapping is something only he can do.

his ability to wrap, fuse and stack lyrical devices on top of each other and execute them is crazy. Even elite lyricist dont do that type of writing. They just do the usual extension of a metaphor or wordplay
and move on to the next one.

for example this portion of "Life death and Love in san francisco."

She said love is a hard thing
Somewhere between golfing and gardening
Or parole board pardoning
But she was still down for a hard swing
Flowers she would pick like guitar strings
For a real good whiff
Of how life behind par seems
Until then she a bar-teend
And pour hot lead shots out of carbines
If an inmate ever even think about departing

dude juggling(and i mean that literally cause what hes doing here is like juggling with the references) 3 metaphors/threads of wordplay / Rhyme schemes all so seamlessly at the same time

 

[nahnah]

Think it's time to take a trip down memory lane to mixtape era Lu, been years

 

[that guy]

You gotta finish the rest of that to see how absolutely disgusting and how far he took it.

Of course you will
Take my time but wait behind only pertains to that Porsche grill
It's snakes in the hood, gotta watch for that cobra bite
Let me see, there's snakes in the hood
A bird, a horse behind the grill
Some gator on the seat and a fox behind the wheel
No it's not Noah's ark (ark), It's just a flo-wer's start

The way he connected those bars to earlier in the song with the boa constrictor reference is insane

 

[Cadillac]

Another song where Lupe goes off but is kinda underrated

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

 

[How Sway?]

bump

 

[Jchr is]

It still blows my mind that my first take on adoration of the magi was not only surface level but that the whole theme of it being a love letter to video games as an experience and mechanics just fukking blows my fukking mind.

And that’s before you look into the reincarnation and aspects. Bro they could really teach college classes on this nikka.

 

[threattonature]

I can’t decide which track is more raw Failure or Lupe The Killer

Lupe The Killer he was talking that shyt breaking down real street origins and still nikkas ain’t catch it over 15 years later

When it comes to slick hood hustling talk early to mid 2000’s Lupe was just as clever and sharp as prime Hov no cap

I give it to Lupe easy because his shyt made perfect sense as just regular bars and was still dope. If you don't know what you're listening to in a lot of ways you can't even tell he's talking about street shyt.

 

[Preach Jackson]

Me after every bar on the first listen while reading the lyric breakdowns

 

[OfTheCross]

Just popped up on shuffle



Lu wrote this shyt like