Lupe Fiasco: "Metaphors and punchlines matter....don't need to be a great lyricist to tell a story....shouldn't rely on delivery and flow"

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he's not saying you need to be big l to be considered a lyricist. he's saying you need to have metaphors cross reference and punchlines put into a package to be a good lyricist. he literally described nas lmao.
 

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Stop listening to rappers who homebodies and were never in any cypha ever. Plus never were emcees. Then get a loan and try to tell emcees.
how to emcee in reverse.

While hiding in their cobra kai lie house.

while hiding and being sheltered homebodies and never rhyming nowhere.

Then try to tell you about emcee'n.


The shyt a joke.



Stop listening to these reverse rappers.

nikkaez who hid in the house to get a loan. Then wanna talk extra.
like they killed it somewhere and a label plant rapper.


Lupe is a label plant and y'all need to stop listening
to these eight mile lie loan dodgestyle e rappers.

I refuse to ever listen to this nikka.
I never listened to this flaug'n homebody label plant rapper. That my best friend cousin produced for.
that hid in the house.

You nikkaz are post racial hiphop infinity.com slash fard fans.


Thinking no one saw this misappropriation of rap online.
to commercial outlets.


No one in the know is fooled.

We just want to watch you fail.
Then try to Juelz your way out of it

When you can not.
Ail this false narrative slash loan dodger homebody label plant rapper narrative is all documented.


Art Barr
 
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I'm Blackman

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If you take Stephen King's IT, probably his best book...this shyt literally has 200 pages of pure description, that you feel like don't do much for the story but it actually helps you visualize the whole shyt.

When it dropped, everybody was hating on it but 30 years later everybody understand how genius it was.

Great comparison


It probably could be 400 pages shorter..but it wouldnt be the same book. At the same time you could tell he trusted his editor on Geralda game and the lenght is perfect. King would have added 200 pages lol.
 

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That couldn’t be further from the truth

As a matter of fact, pre Atlantic Lupe was probably one of the best punchline rappers ever

In 2002-2005 he was doing drawn out word play schemes through verses way before it was even big in battle rap

I got all of that revenge of the nerds mixtape/misc shyt. All of his pre food and liquor shyt. I was more impressed with his rhyme schemes than I was his wordplay.

This is the same dude who said “cumming correct as a pornstar”

He just throws it out there like a piece of candy to appease listeners
 

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Man shut the fukk up lol yall just pulling stuff out of your ass now

Eminem hasn’t made anything close to these in 20 years







And what’s crazy in every Lupe album he’s released recently there’s more storytelling with layers than him flexing his skill


Don't nobody wanna head that goofy shyt, he hasn't made good music since The Cool. You go ahead and analyze the lyrics searching for the meaning behind why he likes his pancakes cut in swirls

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Lupe is null and void based off this.


I was bumping this album working out earlier today.


this is story telling with elite lyrics.


this shyt makes sense. this is how its done.

without needing a dictionary and thesaurus to break down multiple words and references too, much better display of lyricism on this album.
 

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nikka is such blow hard.

I listend to his first mixtape based off the coli. I thought it was a joke. it came out in the peak of mixtapes 2. breh put out a whole bunch of trash mixtapes then went straight pop.


I don't care how good he is in 2k24. he gets 0 respect from me. Chicago is a hip-hop city 2. I don't get it.
 
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