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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
MUCHAS GRACIAS!
last night i started listening to lupe fiasco's TETSUO & YOUTH.
i was disappointed that "lupe fiasco" was not a mexican girl, cuz that would be a great name for a mexican girl, ha ha, but anyway, i started listening.
daaaamn! crazy pianos, string instruments--- wtf is this-- "prog rap"? heh heh heh. it was great though! good & complex & unexpected. i was totally surprised.
i cant really understand what he's saying-- but i heard almost zero brand names which is a relief from the usual ticks of the genre (i did hear "napping in a jaguar" though-- also "faggot"-- wtf, people, it's 2015).
but anyway the music is very good. i'll keep re-listening & figure out what he's doing. then i'll try the others.
thanks again!
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Dude, just get Kendrick's albums and dive in. Lupe is great, but he is more or less cut from the same cloth as Kanye West (minus a lot of the talent, the production chops, the vision and the ego to pull off the unpulloffable), and Common. He comes from conscious stock, and has a lot of conceptual ideas, and digs fashion and shit.
Tetsuo & Youth is probably my #2 hip-hop album of the year so far, but it's really just Lupe's version of stuff Kanye's already done. His other albums are nowhere near as "high-brow" musically, and he stumbles over dumb lyrics at the best of times.
You want the disciples of KRS-One? It's Kendrick Lamar. Of Public Enemy? It's Run the Jewels.
But Kendrick is where you wanna be. Go check out his new album, it has everything you seem to be looking for and more of it than any other rapper out there. Brilliant musical scope and some of the best lyrics you're likely to hear on a hip-hop record. And if you haven't already heard Good Kid mAAd city, or his excellent mixtape Section.80, hear them... Now!