Lupe Fiasco - Tetsuo And Youth - UNCUT ALBUM REACTION

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Mohamed

Please re-upload!

Josiah Kane

I love Chopper, matter of fact it's my 3rd favorite on the album. The list of non household name rappers adds to the grittiness and I always wanna here Buk of Psychodrama.

This is the video I joined for after seeing you do F&L and The Cool. After those two, unfortunately Atlantic Records blocked up his creative process massively and he was forced to put out super mediocre records but once he was freed from that situation the bars have been slowly but surely coming back in true form. Just for context. Thanks for these

Gyra

Incredible reaction to this classic album. Loved it. DROGAS WAVE is the final boss, truly. I can't f'n wait.

Anwar Taylor

To add on to the legend of Lupe, it is an ongoing theory that the youtube channel "TimesNuRoman" is actually Lupe creating the video content. It's his way of breaking down his bars without having to verbally do it, being that he has said in past interviews that he won't do full breakdowns of his bars so that our imagination can roam free. Lupe is THE greatest lyricist of all time.

Anthony Pickens

Been absolutely loving all of the Lu videos, they’ve really gotten me back into him and made me remember why he’s the goat! Wasn’t a huge fan of this album when it came out and it’s still not my favorite the normal way through but backwards it’s actually a great deal better IMO. Can’t wait for more Lupe reactions! He’s got so much amazing work and is way too slept on so would love to get him all the attention possible

NullSpace

I did the same! The YT version just doesn't cut it!

Cecil Johnet

This man was falling asleep when Chopper was on. Don't deny it.

Wesley Richards

This is one of my favorite albums of all time. I subbed just to see this reaction lol Thank you for giving Lupe his flowers JD!

Jon

Another example of Lupe playing with the sounding of words, on Deliver the chorus, "Pizza man don't come here no more," can be heard as "Peace of man don't come here no more" for the same reasons he listed the pizza man doesn't come around anymore.

Dylan

For Prisoner 1 & 2, the story goes from the actually convicted prisoner to saying how the guards are also prisoners and them getting jealous because the criminals are allowed to leave. Because of this, it can be read as "Prisoner WON & Prisoner TOO" rather than "1 & 2." In the first part, the prisoners won because they were rehabilitated and able to leave. In the second part, the guards are jealous because they are "prisoners too" and can't get out. It's absolutely insane. Lupe is a different species.

Dylan

Also funny story about the song Chopper. In one of Lupe's last interviews he explained that Chopper wasn't supposed to be that long. He had sent everyone the instrumental and it was 32 bars long. He was thinking they would send back 16 but everyone sent a full 32. He did not want to cut out or slim down their verses and he felt like it would be wrong to ask them to redo their work so he went with it. He knew that there was a big chance that many fans wouldn't like it but the song got a lot of positive feedback.

Darius

Fantastic video! If you do end up doing Drogas Wave I highly recommend splitting up the project the way Lupe has it. The first part should be the first 9 songs I believe. This album is a double disk album so those are the Wave part of the concept. Then the rest of the songs are the Drogas part. It all ties in together but it helps make more sense if you know which songs are part of the first disk and which songs are part of the second disk as there is a change in musical theme. I don't want to say more since it is kind of spoiling.

Darius

I agree with the Drogas WAVE recommendation; however, that is a very dense project and much more challenging than Tetsuo and Youth in my opinion. I would also recommend his latest EP, HOUSE. One of the most digestible projects he's done but still dense in quality

IEU

Lupe is a master class lyricist. Drogas Wave has to be next. Great reaction as always.

Christopher Jones

Everytime I listen to Lupe's work for the first time, I close my eyes and let him take me wherever TF he wants me to go and enjoy the ride. But first, we feel... Good job Jon, we already know what's up, we just want you to enjoy the brilliance that is Lupe's music. That's all we ask.

Sabali Mafatshe

That was what I was coming down here to write too

Alex Twite

PLEASE DO DROGAS WAVE JON YOU WILL HAVE FINISHED LUPES CLASSICS !!!!

Anthony

Dots and Lines is all about not selling your soul to huge record labels. From Genius: (Lupe uses sine as a homophone, and a synonym of mark – he believes signing to a major label (the beast) would be like selling your soul to the devil. Considering Lupe’s struggles over at Atlantic Records, we can understand his advice to stay on a straight path, unlike that of the Sine function in geometry)

Tyler

YES. All of his breakdowns are crazy, especially Mural.

Tyler

Pizza man on delivery is also PEACE OF MAN

Devan Laney

Consensus is DO DROGAS WAVE BUT IF YOU WANNA LESS DENSE LUPE DO DROGAS LIGHT FIRST HIS OFFICIAL LAST ALBUM ON ATLANTIC JUST SOME OLD SONG HE PUT TOGETHER TO GET OUT OF THE DEAL

Timothy Payton

Anyways, I'm one of the people that fully believes that Mural is the best hip hop song ever. As you said, how could you disagree? But Prisoner 1 & 2 isn't far from the top I think... That song is on another level

The Lyricology video on the first bars of Mural is amazing, you need to watch it

You're gonna kill the poor guy

Denzel

TimesNuRoman on youtube has really good visual representations of a lot of the songs and this video from Lyricology is a great breakdown on like the first half of Mural (sucks he didn't finish it): Lyricology: https://youtu.be/6apVcAZVRAM TimesNuRoman: https://youtu.be/EpZfIyhp-ZA And this isn’t exactly a breakdown of all the content but it’s Lupe talking about the album if you’re interested: https://youtu.be/JJR2M1YJVNk And then of course you’ve got genius. Loved the video been looking forward to it, hope you also do Drogas Wave but that ones an even longer mind fuck lol

Denzel

When you asked about any breakdowns/video essays on this album, the best I can reccomend is a channel called timesNuRoman that does video breakdowns on lupe songs in terms of imagery and meaning there is no speaking though. Definately worth a watch imo: Body of Work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5RexGnI8NE Dots & Lines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDAJ-rXxA_Y Adoration of the Magi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpZfIyhp-ZA Mural: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUZZMk09SgU

i just want to point out one thing that you may or may not have missed only because Lupe has made a habit of doing this in more recent songs so you can start to look out for it. In the chorus of Prisoner 1&2 he does this thing where he uses the initials of the words love and hate Love is L.ooking O.ver V.arious E.rrors and hate is H.abitually A.ccelerating T.error E.verywhere

JoeDurtay

If you play the album backwards, you get the story of a baby being born and having to grow up in this kind of society at such an early age.. some say this character is Michael Young History, because it fits well with his story and Lupe makes references to The Cool throughout. All the way until Chopper, which then you Lupe’s story, about how he came from making it out the system of the ghetto just to be trapped in another system, the music industry.. but by the end he’s finally free and is able to express himself how he wants to. He gives you his mural, which is a summary of his entire life and career.

Aaron

Adoration of the Magi chorus describes classic album covers (Ready to Die, Illmatic, Nevermind, The Carter III, Water Babies, and more

Evan

something interesting about this album is that Atlantic (Lupes label) didn’t even want to release it but I’m pretty sure anonymous leaked it themselves and Atlantic had no choice but to release it to the public

Henry Ayrault

For example the song body of work is a song about masonry, the golden ratio, alchemy and also not signing deals with record labels all in one.

2020 Foresight

There's a small YouTube channel called "times nu roman" that makes video about Lupe songs. He shows clips from movies and cartoons and kind of deciphers some of the complex bars

2020 Foresight

Awesome reaction as always, we need to finish out Lupe SZN with DROGAS WAVE!

Figgerson

this album is the exact reason whenever I hear people saying "so and so mainstream artist is the best lyricist of all time" i tell them to do more research.

JoeDurtay

Yes finally!! Thank you Jon

Blake

LET’S GOOOOOOOOOO

The Best Pizza Connoissuer

Yes sir thank you for taking on the challenge to listen to Lupe, he is a goat

Timothy Payton