Lupe Fiasco - Tetsuo & Youth (Discussion thread)*Stream*

[Danie84]

A hundred words for them Hummingbirds that like to eavesdrop
And fan out like Peacocks with a Parakeet that beat box

Then

Lupe look at all these Toucans
In a cemetery full of Tomahawkes
Giving middle fingers to the Pigeons doing somersaults
Road runners don't fall off cliffs, they run across

...who knew Lu was a WB Ornithologist

 

[NoHalfWay]

A hundred words for them Hummingbirds that like to eavesdrop
And fan out like Peacocks with a Parakeet that beat box

Then

Lupe look at all these Toucans
In a cemetery full of Tomahawkes
Giving middle fingers to the Pigeons doing somersaults
Road runners don't fall off cliffs, they run across

...who knew Lu was a WB Ornithologist

"Remember, L-U-P-Emperor
Nickname December, move birds like winter"

Don't even ask him how

 

[We Major]

Been revisiting this over the past week or so

 

[ROFL_GUY]

Been revisiting this over the past week or so

best hip-hop album in YEARS.

the depth.

thank you lupe

 

[NoHalfWay]

nikka COOKED Ab-Soul

Beat retarded with a flow to match

 

[ROFL_GUY]

nikka COOKED Ab-Soul

Beat retarded with a flow to match

amazing track

 

[nairdas]

shyt still in rotation.

Started where we win. Spoiler alert! I can hear y'all all saying, "Boy, you're a jerk!"

 

[OfTheCross]

 

[Abstract83]

Was bumpin this album with my shorty on the way to that party today on scott street in Brooklyn.

 

[spliz]

Still album of the year.

 

[OfTheCross]

The ghetto was a physical manifestation
Of hate in a place where ethnicity determines your placement
A place that defines your station
Remind you nikkas your place is the basement
White people in the attic
nikkas selling dope, White people is the addicts
White folks act like they ain't show us how to traffic
All that dope to China, you don't call that trappin'?



never da flow, tho

 

[Rigby.]

Prisoner 1 is the hardest song I think I've ever heard

 

[GoldenGlove]

Prisoner 1 is the hardest song I think I've ever heard

Was thinking about making an appreciation thread for that song today breh.



Part 2 is where I really went when I connected how the prisoners perspective wasn't just calling out the COs, but a lot of these rappers who glorify a lifestyle that has influence on a lot of the youth that end up incarcerated.

 

[Rigby.]

"Now I'm looking at a war, BGF got the yard
AB got the kitchen, snitches on PC
MM on a mission, but CO's got the prison"


The explanation for this.....wow

Just wow

Even a song that seems as straightforward as Prisoner 1 is a double entendre (occasionally triple)

 

[Rigby.]

Was thinking about making an appreciation thread for that song today breh.



Part 2 is where I really went when I connected how the prisoners perspective wasn't just calling out the COs, but a lot of these rappers who glorify a lifestyle that has influence on a lot of the youth that end up incarcerated.

I haven't peeped Part 2 explanations yet

P1 literally put me on a high when I first heard it