Lupe Fiasco - Mural (GOAT Lyricism)

[lyrical professor]

Lupe came out the gate swingin' 8 minutes of crack....bar after bar multi after multi. But.....I'll admit that it's a big difference between using complexity with wit, and just flat rhyming gibberish for the hell of it trying to force complexity and wordplay. It was a little bit of both on this joint.

At times I was like this

Some moments

 

[pointproven214]

Look at whats posted above by intellectual reciprocal. pacs got nothing comparable to that

what verse u talking about this one



we're all chemicals, vitamins and minerals 'n Vicodin and inner-tubes wrapped around the arm
to see the vein/vane like a chicken on a barn; Top Cat chat lets begin another yarn
thats flyin saucer cheese, or is it chicken parm?
but roosters don't fly like boosters don't buy
So what powers cowards to get em to the top, just to fall asleep, listenin to Bach?
the ribbon in the sky is the ribbon that I drop
dribblin the eye across the prism of a clock
that lacks meaning but racks up stacks of fat readin
to catch chief and wrapped up plants from trap dealin
now what's a coffin wit a scratched ceilin?
and what's the talkin without the matched feelin?
that's buried livin and cherry pickin every lemon from your berry system
and proceed with the pack feedin

 

[pointproven214]

I can understand some of prime Jay-Z, though. It's hard to understand Lupe.

im talking about overall rhyme schemes vocab metaphors wordplay punchline etc u just talking metaphors and wordplay.

 

[LordTaskForce]

 

[Damnshow]

this song

 

[Hybrinetics]

ye talkin bout that verse @BaronX

dont get me wrong i love Pac but he can barely get through a verse without saying nikka or thug life 10 times. His vocab is tiny, rhyme schemes nothing special, metaphors wordplay punchline also nothing special.


Lupe had maybe one or two expletives in that whole 9 minutes of straight fire lyricism

 

[EndDomination]

The link is dead for the track, so I'll have to listened to the slowed down Youtube version.
This song is absolute fire though.

 

[pointproven214]

ye talkin bout that verse @BaronX

dont get me wrong i love Pac but he can barely get through a verse without saying nikka or thug life 10 times. His vocab is tiny, rhyme schemes nothing special, metaphors wordplay punchline also nothing special

i love lupe and u seem cool

but it seems like u trolling because he rhymed more then just nikka and thug and just because use words that aren't common don't mean it is a sick rhyme scheme
because at the end of the day if it don't rhyme it don't rhyme.

 

[pointproven214]

Allow me to introduce first {*gunshot fires*} Makaveli the Don
Hysterical, spiritual lyrics like the holy Qu'Ran
nikkaz get shook like 5-0
My forty-five gun's next to me when we ride, for survival
Money makin plans, pistol close at hand, swollen pockets
Let me introduce the topic, then we drop it
Expose snakes cause they breath freely, see me ride?
Located world wide like the art of graffiti
I think I'm tougher than Nitti, my attitude is shytty
Born on a dopefiend's titty.. huh
In every city you'll find me
Look for trouble right behind me
My Outlaw nikkaz down to die for me, knahmean?
I hit the scene nikkaz duckin from my guillotine stare
I'm right there; my every word, a fukkin nightmare
Get me high, let me see the sun rise and fall
This for my dogs down to die for yours
Extreme venom, no mercy when we all up in 'em
Cut 'em down.. to Hell is where we send 'em
My whole team, trained to explode ride or die
Murder motherfukkers lyrically, and I'm not gon' cry
Me - a born leader never leave the block without my heater
Two big pits, I call them my bytch nikka eaters
And not a whimper 'til I'm gone
Thug Life runnin through my veins so I'm strong
(Ha ha ha)


lupe has no verse messing with this in terms of complex rhyme schemes etc.

 

[EndDomination]

Version not slowed down: http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/lupe-fiasco-mural-new-song.1961737.html
Crack. Pure. Crack.

 

[The Mad Titan]

This is one of the best rap songs lyrically, ever.

It wasn't a 8 mins song with 2 mins of chorus and intro and out.
It touched on a bit of everything without resorting to mostly bang bang shootem up, bragging about money and cars, or women.
It made mention of racism, video games, anime, cartoons, politic, spirituality, guns, drugs and more...
The multi's are layer on so thick he makes it seem normal and easy.

This isn't another rapper I can think of that can do what lupe did in this song.

 

[Kitsune]

This isn't another rapper I can think of that can do what lupe did in this song.

is that right? well the frst verse speaks for itself

 

[Patriarch]

Been a Lupe fan for years but its something about his delivery that I dont like anymore. I'm thinking I prefer brevity when it comes to rappers.. Dope song , though.

 

[Mr. Jack Napier]

Dude lost me halfway through, complex doesn't always mean great, and this is the case here.

 

[Hybrinetics]

My rap position was black condition of activism ammunition for abolition, missions attacking systems, but they not apt to listen 'less is droppin no activision
Are we apps or are we bodies filled with apparitions operating applications stuck inside an apple prison chicken hackin download, updates that lack religion or...
are we more..
than soil tainting, disloyal change means preoccupied with boy and goyle chasing and foiling others royal saintings I sit back and watch the world through eye holes in my oil paintings uh..
Aint nothin to it but to do it
Unless you virgin mary nuttin do it but the truest
believe all that-
unless you jewish
life is not a dictionary-
its a thesaurus
And I feel like a missionary-
to a clitoris
The water bearer heir of traditions that I swear to never change my chair position or conditions of my porridge
Submission for sedition against the religion of a chorus
keep them golden weed thieves out the muthafukin forest
As I perform a nerd storm
I prefer my pictures in word form
Bury the hatchet like how a bird born
As I paint cold pictures like Kool-Aid face and condensation havin' conversations with flavorful combinations slaves to my concentration
So thats OJ the Juiceman meets OJ with two hands, and two gloves thats too snug 2 judge who was who drew blood aaand....
Lupe look at all these Tucaaans (cacs)
In a cemetery full of tomahawks (native americans)
Givin middle fingers to the pidgeons (blacks) doin somersaults
Roadrunners dont fall off cliffs they run across
Anomalies by the colony, flukes by the reservoir
Wildin' pursuers end up as poofs on the desert floor
Levitating youths who know the truth of where the fountain hides
Buckaroo Ruths(biblical reference) painting tunnels onto the mountain sides
A thousand parts a pound of heart an ounce of eyes announcin now the doubt in mouth pronounces out a count of lies


This shyt is too deep and rap genius fukking up all these lyrics too. breakin this shyt down giving me a headache