Thing about Lupe is that he often raps over weak or unfit beats for some reason, so even if his lyrics are amazing the final product will generally be underwhelming since it's hard to give repeated listens to a song with subpar production. T&Y production sounds over-polished to me, with too much shyt going on, and for someone who's mostly all about bars he really should stick with simpler loops (think what Joey Bada$$ raps over generally --- Big Dusty, Christ Conscious, Paper Trails, etc. would've been amazing to hear him on some of that or similar shyt).
but some of his best bars come from the track Real Recognize Real, but the beat is super underwhelming
They say the game has the belly of a beast
Blunts for fingers and hollow tips for teeth
Wire taps for ears, Nike Airs for feet
Blasphemy for prayers, a system for a heart
Rap music for beats, heroin for a son and it's married to the streets
Crack pipes for lungs, and he never sleeps
Just spies, wit dice in his eyes
Loves life cuz he likes when it dies
Wit a baking soda soul, he cough up pleasure
Clothes made out of dollar bills that he sewed together
with that said I really fukks with this track which has both LYRICS AND THE PRODUCTION on point, if he had more tracks like this one he'd be untouchable.
Son have u heard of KING/Trouble Man/Dime Trap/Paper Trail .. A lot of people argue that King and Paper Trail are classics .. U might not like those albums, but to sit here and act like the consensus is TI hasn’t had a good album since 04 is wild
