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A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. --Damn, you can just tell how much this song meant to both of them. The original Let Nas down (which was great in it of itself), the reaction from Nas, then the twitter convo they h

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Well, Hip Hop is such a diverse genre, I'm pretty sure you can't narrow it down to a contestation and social critique even though most of what was hip hop in the early 90's actually stemmed from it.

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Last year I was at an after-party of Jay Z's in London which I got into since my mum's younger cousin DJ's for quite a few hip-hop moguls and was hosting this particular party. (I just stood awkwardly

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Looking forward to Joey Bada$$' debut album, won't get my hopes up too high though, not everyone can do a Kendrick.

Kendrick had the best debut album since Kanye. Or Lupe. Eitger way, don't think Joey will be THAT good. Hopefully better than Cole's debut.

Common's new album is whack as fuck.

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Kendrick had the best debut album since Kanye. Or Lupe. Eitger way, don't think Joey will be THAT good. Hopefully better than Cole's debut.

Common's new album is whack as fuck.

If you combine the best tracks from 1999 & Summer Knights, that's a classic album imo.

And yea, Common's album was a let down.

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If you combine the best tracks from 1999 & Summer Knights, that's a classic album imo.

And yea, Common's album was a let down.

Haven't heard 99, i liked Summer Knights a ton. I think he's capable of it, but not on his debut. But i could be wrong.
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Haven't heard 99, i liked Summer Knights a ton. I think he's capable of it, but not on his debut. But i could be wrong.

1999 >>>>> Summer Knights. I thought Summer Knights was so boring, couldn't even listen to it anymore after playing through it twice.
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Just gone through Lupe videos, interviews etc for 3 hours. Listening to what he's saying about his place in Chicago and seeing him emotional you just wish Tetsuo and Youth is gonna be a well articulated emotional yet powerful album with lots of stories.

Instead, at least what we know so far, stuff like "Crack" and "Next to It" will be on that album, smh. So much wasted talent...

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Sosa bitch, yeah I done gone ape. Pistol toting and I'm shooting on sight. A snitch n*gga, that's the shit I don't like. Nah, your bitch won't do the team, bet she won't fight. And we ain't gone fight, our guns gone fight.

Chief Keef #GreatestRapperAlive :Goober: :goober: :Goober:

I love that shit tho not gonna lie.

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Sosa bitch, yeah I done gone ape. Pistol toting and I'm shooting on sight. A snitch n*gga, that's the shit I don't like. Nah, your bitch won't do the team, bet she won't fight. And we ain't gone fight, our guns gone fight.

Chief Keef #GreatestRapperAlive :Goober: :Goober: :Goober:

I love that shit tho not gonna lie.

Bitch love SOSA!

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Just gone through Lupe videos, interviews etc for 3 hours. Listening to what he's saying about his place in Chicago and seeing him emotional you just wish Tetsuo and Youth is gonna be a well articulated emotional yet powerful album with lots of stories.

Instead, at least what we know so far, stuff like "Crack" and "Next to It" will be on that album, smh. So much wasted talent...

The problem with Lupe is that, while he's vocal about all the social issues that he discusses on Twitter and in interviews, he can't really put it into his mainstream music properly. There's two sides to it, while he'll maintain it's the label's fault for not allowing him to do it there's also his own arrogance to try and do so. As we saw with Lasers, there was only so much protesting he did on social media before he bowed to their pressure.

Lupe's still an artist at the end of the day. He needs to make his money and for him to do that, sometimes he'll have to cave into label pressure. He won't be able to replicate F&L 1 or The Cool because it's not what sells anymore in the current hip-hop climate. To his credit, he does try and balance his LPs enough to bring music his long-term fans can still vibe out too while catering for the masses of new generation fans.

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The problem with Lupe is that, while he's vocal about all the social issues that he discusses on Twitter and in interviews, he can't really put it into his mainstream music properly. There's two sides to it, while he'll maintain it's the label's fault for not allowing him to do it there's also his own arrogance to try and do so. As we saw with Lasers, there was only so much protesting he did on social media before he bowed to their pressure.

Lupe's still an artist at the end of the day. He needs to make his money and for him to do that, sometimes he'll have to cave into label pressure. He won't be able to replicate F&L 1 or The Cool because it's not what sells anymore in the current hip-hop climate. To his credit, he does try and balance his LPs enough to bring music his long-term fans can still vibe out too while catering for the masses of new generation fans.

Which raises the question for me why he agreed to such a contract with his label. If it's only about earning more money then fair enough but from an outsider's point of view this paradoxic behavior of him being the outspoken intellectual and producing music that doesn't resemble that at all makes him appear "fake". There's enough rappers who manage to do both, be their "real" selves and earning money, what is stopping Lupe from doing so as well?

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The Underachievers - Cellar Door:

Not as good as Indigoism, the singles from that project were better too i.e 'The Mahdi'. UA are thought provoking.. but their music does lack solid narratives, or enough coherent storylines. 'Icandescent', 'Metropolis' and the outro 'Amorphous' the standouts for me 'atm'.

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