Lupe Fiasco & Kaelin Ellis - HOUSE EP (Discussion Thread)

[L $ C]

That dinosaurs track is like a parody of my criticisms of him. Trash, over wrought song completely bogged down by a ridiculous concept/metaphor that is just asinine. I can't imagine listening to this shyt and being impressed or enjoying it. It's 2020 fam, stop doing this shyt.

gonna come down to how you look at it, I understand both sides

he said he made it for his niece and nephews and its a double entendre about the rap game

 

[criminology]

This is a nice little EP. None of the songs are all that amazing. Was sort of indifferent to it first. Then just listened to it like one long song and it hits a nice mood that’s better than it the individual songs.

 

[EndDomination]

Hearing is explanation of the Dinosaurs track was fun.

Other than having to listen to Virgil Abloh's voice - I enjoyed this EP.
4/5 stars from me

 

[MoneyTron]

This was a dope EP.

I haven't listened to Lupe in years but his lyricism is effortless. That herd immunity bar on LF95...

 

[OmegaK2099]

SHOES

 

[GreenGhxst]

Really enjoyed Dinosaurs

 

[AAKing23]

Lupe is in my top 10 DOA so I'm not surprised that he continues to shine lyrically and is sharp as ever, although he is an unlikable smart dumb nikka at times dude is a genius at putting words together

Having this much skill in something I guess naturally displays an aura of what seems is pretentiousness which is what I guess puts people off of him but when you know you're on another level like Lupe is, it's like can you really even blame him ?

 

[Playaz Eyez]

yeah, it's why although I LOVE me some dope boy raps,

I ALSO love Ghostface rapping about arguing wth his watch, Deltron3030, Cage and Camu Tao rapping from the perspective of crooked cops, Cage and Tame One making an album about doing PCP. I remember Ghostface saying "Heavy rain fukked my kicks up. Wasn't looking, splashed in a puddle. bytch laughing. First thought was 'beat the bytch up'" It was the funniest, most offhanded, most relatable shyt ever.

I was actually thinking about it on the way home from work yesterday. You can make music about anything. one of my GOAT albums's opening tracks is a japanese song about the first dog in space. .

the world is full of all kinds of shyt. Real shyt. Imagined shyt. shyt in the past, like... dog, make a song about hoping you dont hit a deer on the way from the club. Rap about thinking your girl messed with your NBA 2k20 game when you paused it and went to take a piss.

Our music is severely limited in it's subject matter, and it'll make your thoughts severely limited cause you constantly listening to it.

I hope this isn’t the case for adults

 

[Mr. Negative]

I hope this isn’t the case for adults

look around.

 

[OmegaK2099]

yeah, it's why although I LOVE me some dope boy raps,

I ALSO love Ghostface rapping about arguing wth his watch, Deltron3030, Cage and Camu Tao rapping from the perspective of crooked cops, Cage and Tame One making an album about doing PCP. I remember Ghostface saying "Heavy rain fukked my kicks up. Wasn't looking, splashed in a puddle. bytch laughing. First thought was 'beat the bytch up'" It was the funniest, most offhanded, most relatable shyt ever.

I was actually thinking about it on the way home from work yesterday. You can make music about anything. one of my GOAT albums's opening tracks is a japanese song about the first dog in space. .

the world is full of all kinds of shyt. Real shyt. Imagined shyt. shyt in the past, like... dog, make a song about hoping you dont hit a deer on the way from the club. Rap about thinking your girl messed with your NBA 2k20 game when you paused it and went to take a piss.

Our music is severely limited in it's subject matter, and it'll make your thoughts severely limited cause you constantly listening to it.

Twelve reasons to die the ghostface killah italian horror inspired concept album such good shyt

 

[the_FUTURE]

 

[erker]

Twelve reasons to die the ghostface killah italian horror inspired concept album such good shyt

Fukking classic, as is 36 Seasons

 

[Izanami]

I love Dinosaurs.

Hip Hop fans are the most rigid and stuck in their ways fans to me. It's why the genre is so slow to move forward in terms of subject material and even sonically. Most fans only wanna hear raps based around materialism, violence, the streets, misogyny, or the struggle. Even conscious rap fans, just in a way that doesn't glorify those things. It's been an issue I've had with the culture for years.

Dude immaculately rapped for 4 minutes. Perfect flow, insane production, effortlessly sharp rhyme schemes, creativity on max, and yet people saying it's trash and a parody. Hip hop fans are narrow and rigid and this is really just a reflection of how black people can be as well. We're so used to our oppression that sometimes it feels like it's the only thing we're comfortable in, even with our art.

I want bangers about healthy eating, financial responsibility, actually respecting women and sure why not dinosaurs too? Board games we grew up on, fictional planets. So yeah I fukk with this Dinosaur shyt. shyt ain't never been done. The game desperately lacks balance and progress and it's why I don't consider myself a rap fan anymore and why many are fed up with the genre. shyt isn't going anywhere interesting and it becomes more and more corny to me to dance and bop our heads to the theme songs of our self destruction

I don't like rap anymore. I like certain rappers. I'll come outta my hole when Lupe, Kendrick, Joey, etc drop and then I go back to my hole and wait for something to interest me while I listen to black music that is actually fresh and progressive lol.

Thought of this post when I heard the meg Cardi track

 

[Da_Eggman]

Call me rap Anthony Fauci, that black blackity grouchy mouthpiece
Ramadan breath, prayer rug pointed at Saudi
Tuck it in and square up, get reacquainted with your hairbrush
Just cause Andrew is a Barber, that don't mean he's giving haircuts
That landed suitably, worded beautifully
They heard that I was sick, now they herd immunity

 

[I AM WARHOL]

Pretty good. But you can tell this was just a warmup imo. Like Drogas Light