UNCUT: Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor | Dad Reacts
Added 2023-04-14 14:53:18 +0000 UTCLupe didn't let me down! All time stamps are below, but keep in mind Kai often fills me in with some facts before the song starts - so you can rewind a bit if you want to catch that. - Dad P.S. you're getting this over a week before the shorter version goes on YouTube!
Intro 3:54 | Real 8:26 | Just Might Be Ok 18:23 | Kick, Push 25:15 | I Gotcha 32:50 | The Instrumental 43:21 | He Say She Say 54:03 | Sunshine 1:06:49 | Daydreamin' ft Jill Scott 1:17:00 | The Cool 1:27:20 | Hurt Me Soul 1:37:40 | Pressure ft. Jay-Z 1:44:45 | American Terrorist 1:57:50 | The Emperor's Soundtrack 2:08:25 | Kick, Push II 2:16:25 | Outro 2:32:25
Comments
Soooo... when are you doing another Lupe album?? Some many options... let's hear it. The Cool is super cool. And I really enjoy Lasers.
Tina Ellis
2023-11-09 06:15:20 +0000 UTCThe lyrics on the screen are nice touch. Many of the lyrics are wrong, which may impair Kai's Dad's ability to understand what is being said. These examples are taken strictly from "The Emperor's Soundtrack": - ... wear my street clothes in it / Measured, sold, and clothed in it "Measured, **sewed**, and clothed in it." - "Opened up clones, after I entered" "Open up, close after I entered" - "Bounce in the booth and spit it like scoldin' it" "Bounce in the booth and spit it like Skoal in it" Skoal is snuff tobacco, which is similar to chewing tobacco. You spit the build up of saliva and tobacco from it - similar to Old Westerns with people spitting into spitoons or how old baseball pitchers would spit. - "Hallway wall full of bricks, only some of us know" It's "Hallway wall full of RIPs, some some of us know." RIPs as in Rest in Peace. He's creating an image of a hallway wall which has memorials, such as their pictures, to people from the building/community who have died and further stating that some of those people memorialized are known by some of the people living in the community. - "Heart colder than EDs" "Colder than Edy's," which is an ice cream brand. - "Won't let the CD's city defeat me / Rub me out like genies/ smoke a sweet to my graitti" "Won't let the seedy city defeat me/ Rub me out like genies/ Won't concede 'til I'm graffiti" Rub is a double entendre on rubbing someone out as in killing them, and graffiti is as in street mural. Basically saying this is a disreputable city and I am not going to stop until doing what I am doing until I am killed and when that happens people will graffiti murals in my memory. This is maybe the first half of the song. There are a few other cases I may have missed. Still, it is a lot of errors in short span of time and could see it being more confusing than helpful.
nebu nezzar
2023-07-30 08:50:54 +0000 UTCThere a video of this song that breaks down gotta eat as the whole song is a double entrende
Den Cabrera
2023-07-23 02:41:54 +0000 UTCThanks very much for that!
The FrontRoom
2023-05-28 07:55:41 +0000 UTCSubscribed as soon as I saw Lupe reactions in full!
NullSpace
2023-05-23 00:38:23 +0000 UTCIn North Texas we had a 12-year-old pull out an AR15 on some guy at a Sonic and kill him, and one of my first thoughts was Little Weapon. I hate that that song is still so relevant.
Blinky
2023-05-17 16:20:07 +0000 UTCI cannot wait for your dad to listen to "Gotta Eat" from the 2nd album.
Manny
2023-05-16 00:08:31 +0000 UTCLove the reaction. I would also recommend when you guys cover more lupe songs do the reaction from YouTuber timesnuroman. He adds visual illustrations to the lyrics. You guys will be amazed how much is missed in his lyrics until you see the visual breakdown. So many double triple quadruple entendres in his writing.
Free moves
2023-05-06 21:51:05 +0000 UTCThe live version is Jill Scott and recorded is Erykah Badu
Amethyst Simone
2023-04-29 01:42:38 +0000 UTCYou guys have to review the live and recorded versions of The Roots you got me. You’d love it
Amethyst Simone
2023-04-29 01:42:07 +0000 UTCGreat reaction I feel it's only right that do ludacris soon I have a feeling it will be some of your dads favorite
Brandon Wheeler
2023-04-27 16:21:50 +0000 UTCGreat review as usual. Lupe is one of the best to do it. Save for Daydreamin’ I actually like The Cool better than Food & Liquor. Daydreamin’ is just a vibe and Jill Scott is such an incredible vocalist. Y’all should check out the “Who Is Jill Scott” album. But for as dope as Food and Liquor is, The Cool is more concise, less obscure but still brilliant in it’s lyricism. As far as hip hop albums from The South, I recommend OutKast, Aquemini. Although they have two classic albums that come before Aquemini (and honestly, you can’t go wrong with a review of Southernplayalistic or ATLiens) in my humble opinion, Aquemini is their best work. Outkast is arguably HipHop’s greatest duo.
Dev Baty
2023-04-25 15:24:53 +0000 UTCI was fascinated to read your comment. I need to delve deeper in Lupe's mastery of the art form! - Dad
The FrontRoom
2023-04-23 19:41:17 +0000 UTCThanks for the suggestions Sheldon, good points about Tetsuo. And thanks for the correction!!
The FrontRoom
2023-04-22 20:12:05 +0000 UTCI would love to see y'all do a later album like Tesuo & Youth. As one of those "Lupe fanatics" you spoke about in the beginning, it is my favorite album. It's so deep with lyrical content and the jazz influenced tracks are amazing even as instrumentals. Even though I have listened to rap my whole life and that album in particular for 8 years, I'm still catching new meanings to his lyrics. Also, Neptunes are from Virginia, not California. I only mention this error because I'm also from Virginia and we don't have much to claim. Lol
Sheldon Dobbins
2023-04-20 15:50:04 +0000 UTCThanks for watching Anthony! Would love to do The Cool
The FrontRoom
2023-04-18 05:55:04 +0000 UTCAwesome video of a great album! Hopefully you guys do The Cool down the road. Hint about that album, keep some of the songs off of Food & Liquor is mind while listening (He Say She Say, The Cool, Kick Push II). It dives into a character’s life he raps about.
Anthony Webb
2023-04-18 01:22:34 +0000 UTCI love this comment 😂
The FrontRoom
2023-04-17 20:26:05 +0000 UTCUh oh. I was suppose to do stuff today. Kids! Dinner will be late
Jiminy
2023-04-17 20:07:15 +0000 UTCAlso I really love how you showed the lyrics on this one, I'm usually looking up the lyrics on my phone anyways so I really liked that you included that. Keep up the fantastic work I really love watching you and your dad react to this amazing music, thank you for putting this content out there.
Ryan Kemp
2023-04-16 07:05:54 +0000 UTCPlease please please do "The Cool" at some point. "Little Weapon" is one of the craziest and most impactful songs I've ever heard and still rings true 16 years later.
Ryan Kemp
2023-04-16 06:31:51 +0000 UTCHad no idea of this!!! Thank you so much, that’s amazing
The FrontRoom
2023-04-15 02:14:24 +0000 UTCWhat makes Lupe different from 99% of rappers isn’t necessarily the “technicality” of his rapping, though he does have that in spades. By technicality I mean internal rhymes, flow etc. Lupe’s true super power is his ability to write poetic imagery with complex literary techniques. For instance many rappers could do a lyrical run like the verses on I gotcha or emperors soundtrack (though they are obviously top tier examples of this), but vanishingly few can also write “we came through the storm, with nooses on our necks and a small pox blanket to keep us warm” That’s maya Angelou stuff. And it’s the content, complexity of metaphor and literary word choice that just makes Lupe distinct from pretty much anyone besides Aesop rock, billy woods or Ka. Even if MANY others have similarly dense rhyme schemes and wordplay. Content, themes and motifs also matter in writing. And that is where Lupe seperates himself. this obviously doesn’t even cover the complex metaphors and motifs that span whole songs, let alone whole albums. But you already covered that aspect in the cool and daydream.
Support Basic Science Research
2023-04-15 00:16:29 +0000 UTCHonestly, I’ve been listening to this album since it came out and I just caught the 30 minute line on Sunshine a few months ago. Which honestly speaks volumes of the “gonna take much more than once” line that follows
SlumpJones
2023-04-14 19:25:25 +0000 UTCSewing jeans= so ingenious Lil big in the front= a lil Biggie 2 pockets in the back =2pac Hes basically describing the greats that influenced him and he wants to take the pressure off of them he also mentions chicago rapper being a product of common and do or die. Both chicago legends
Paul Salvador Estrada
2023-04-14 19:13:23 +0000 UTC33 years old. "He say she say" makes me tear up everytime. Sometimes I cry and sometimes I sob...it hits very hard for a man who grew up with that scenario. I take sunshine as his relationship with music with his fans and also "I compliment her on her common sense" is a shout out to "Common" Chicago's concious MC "I'm calm a lil more confident and then we lose conciousness" as rap gained confidence it lost that consciousness so we the listener have been waiting for Lupe to bring it back. But also im Calm a lil more confident sounds like I'm Com a lil more confident..maybe he's saying he's a more confident version of common but that could be a stretch. "Relationship is just 30 mins long It's kind of heavy maybe a little strong Gonna take much more than once Can't trust what each of us say for a month" This is at the 30 min mark of the album its gonna take multiple listens for us to understand everything lupe is saying and also before we can make a clear judgement on the album and he can trust our feedback on the album. Also "real" and "just might be ok" is basically stil part of the intro. Real describing the content and motivation of the album and just might be ok is describing how he got to this point and celebrating the completion of the album. This album is a gift to the people of the Westside of Chicago and all other hoods across the world, the fact that it is completed and out to the masses We just might be ok afterall. So many metaphors, double, triple entendres Lupe is truly in a league of his own. I still catch things after probably hundreds of listens
Paul Salvador Estrada
2023-04-14 17:18:58 +0000 UTCHope you enjoy it Tawanda!
The FrontRoom
2023-04-14 16:17:37 +0000 UTCLove this album. Can't wait to see Dad's reaction.
Tawanda
2023-04-14 16:17:19 +0000 UTC
