Lupe lacks something what is it?

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He is a strong lyricist, but even then, I feel its for people who want to sound smart. Basically if you on the cusp of knowledge, Lupe is probably the shyt.

If you into reading about climate change, globalisation, gangs, personal responsibility. Lupe is a graduate student that raps. With that said I like his stuff, I like that he is pretentious, and doesn't quite fit in anywhere. The hipstrs don't like him. The hood don't like him. The pitchfork rap bros don't lime him. Just by a process of elimination, I think he deserves a seat at the table.

He maybe the most interesting rapper out there.

His voice isn't that great but neither was Bob Dylan so can't hold that against him. I just got through The Cool for the first time in years so was reevaluating him.
 
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Only thing lupe lacks is the yearning for mass appeal like the rest of these rap clowns. He's not out here dumbing down shyt or talking about ignorant shyt just so 14 year old white girls and ignorant nikkas will fukk with him.

If lupe can write shyt like mural and SLR while "missing" something then let him keep missing it.
 
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better production, better hooks. could experiment w/ flows some too. i feel like the 'his content is too deep for u' is weak argument his fans use to defend criticizing him. but i guess i cant blame him for his annoying fans. still, if it sounds good, people will listen and buy it. we all agree he's a stellar lyricist, that doesnt mean he can craft great songs. alot of his stuff post the cool just sounds cheesy to me. like, blatantly pop-ey to me.
 
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He lacks a lot to me, as an MC he has a lot of room for improvement, his delivery can be off sometimes. At times his voice and vocal presence is lacking too.

I think he lacks lyrical potency at times and consistency. I don't think of him as solid, I think he can be too conformative and also pseudo intellectual and pseudo complex with his lyrics and content at time, like someone said a college student instead of a full blown master. I think he gets gassed up by some of his stans that want to sound intelligent but when you deal with someone who actually breaks the ish down some of it is wack and extremely remedial. Being abstract is a style but within that style you have to be potent with the delivery, flow and lyrics to make it work. That's some of the things he lacks to me.

Also in terms of discography I think he's lacking great albums, replay value, songwriting, he's lacking a lot in many areas.

That being said he has some good songs and he can be a good lyricist and MC on his day but to me that day is too irregular for me to rank him that highly, not a fan of the path he's been on recently either, even though some people shytted on Lasers and understandably so in some regards it had a few songs that were really dope and if Lupe had a similar lane to the pinnacle of the material on there regularly I could rank him higher. I still hope he releases some solid more solid material and fulfills the potential he has, but I do fear for the path he's on because it's limited and getting gassed by a small hardcore fan base I don't think overall will help him, it will feed them but Lupe was a big artist at 1 point and a lot of people liked the ish on his 1st 2 albums so many people know him, he seems to be alienating those fans in some ways and creating for a small core fan base who like puzzle raps and going on Rap Genius to read about obscure references. I think there's a balance that can be achieved, infact I know there is, where he could satisfy both, I hope he does it, we'll see. Am willing to listen...
 
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His wordplay is too complex for some people to catch...instead of just admitting that fact they'd rather say "dis nikka corny" and not rock with him because their brain is too lazy to figure out what he's talking about. Imagine your typical Young Thug/Future/Whoever is hot right now fan listening to "Animal Pharm", it probably literally sounds like random words being rhymed.
 
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