OT: Lupe Fiasco's 'Tetsuo & Youth'
For those uninitiated, today a couple of albums were released; Joey Badda$$' 'B4.DA.$$' and Lupe Fiasco's 'Tetsuo & Youth'.
I got the leaked versions over the weekend and plan to go grab T&Y at Best Buy after class. T&Y is literally a work of art, the only album it reminds me of is MBDTF.
Is anyone else here excited, or plan to be buying a album today? And for those who are or already have it, you know you need a place to discuss and decipher it
January 20th, 2015 at 1:43 PM ^
Name, avatar, signature and OP all pulling in the same direction. Definitely got that going for you.
January 20th, 2015 at 1:47 PM ^
January 20th, 2015 at 1:47 PM ^
January 20th, 2015 at 1:56 PM ^
I'll definitely be listening soon. MOTM 3 is what I've been waiting for, and Cudi tweeting about it all day today doesn't help with that.
January 20th, 2015 at 1:59 PM ^
Really enjoyed Lupe's first two albums, thought he fell off quite a bit after that.
as for Joey Badass,1999 was good.
Edit: Thanks to the OP, I'll check the album out.
January 20th, 2015 at 1:49 PM ^
January 20th, 2015 at 1:49 PM ^
Name is asking for bad things.
January 20th, 2015 at 1:54 PM ^
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January 20th, 2015 at 2:16 PM ^
It actually not about Akira, or a reference to the main character.
January 20th, 2015 at 1:51 PM ^
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January 20th, 2015 at 2:17 PM ^
Forest Hills was nice, Sremm Life is good for what it is, dont expect more then 2 kids having fun and you will like it. Umm I know its been out for awhile but Asher Rother's Retro Hash was groovy.
January 20th, 2015 at 1:52 PM ^
I love me some Lupe. Saw him at Hill Auditorium a few years back, and loved him even more when he came out rocking a THJr jersey.
January 20th, 2015 at 2:20 PM ^
Best show I've ever been to for $20, heres a vid of him meeting denard afterwards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGq96hNxeFU
January 20th, 2015 at 1:57 PM ^
I'm not a huge Lupe Fiasco fan, but I'll give it a listen.
On the other hand, Joey Bada$$ has been one of my favorites since his 1999 album.
I've been listening to tracks on his new album for close to a month now since Pro Era Radio's soundcloud page posted some tracks.
No. 99 might be my favorite track on his album right now.
January 20th, 2015 at 1:59 PM ^
I hate to say it, but I am a little bit with Yostbound on this. The Cool is still my all-time favorite rap album (and Food & Liquor is amazing as well) and I still think Lupe puts on the best live show I have seen. Lasers was a bit of a disappointment and I barely listen to F&L 2 at all. He got a little too dark for me. But from what I have heard of T&Y so far, I think this could be a big comeback for him.
January 20th, 2015 at 4:58 PM ^
January 20th, 2015 at 2:02 PM ^
Is this 2001?
January 20th, 2015 at 2:09 PM ^
Amazon for the win.
Also I might be the only person under age 30 to still regularly buy CDs... Now unless it is a brand new album, you can find them on the web for cheaper than iTunes in many cases. Obviously spotify is awesome but it's surprising the stuff you can't find on there.
January 20th, 2015 at 2:24 PM ^
I'm under 30 and haven't bought an album in a long time. My friend on the other hand still likes to buy albums. He said he just likes having the actual CD and he likes album book/cover art and things of that nature.
The best is when he buys CD and it has no album book and it tells him to download one online.
January 20th, 2015 at 3:15 PM ^
I like having the artworks, lyrics and liner notes, and I prefer listening to full albums, so that's a big part of it. I would have jumped on the vinyl train earlier but it seems they pretty much stopped making them in the early 2000s which is kinda when I began building my collection. Obviously nothing beats an iPod or streaming for convenience but if you actually buy music (not something I always did) I prefer the physical copy.
January 20th, 2015 at 6:29 PM ^
Most of the vinyls I see now are the indie-alt type of music.
Couple years ago I heard Replica by Oneohtrix Point Never on vinyl and that sounded better than the digital version.
For example Banks - Goddess LP was one of my favorite releases of 2014 and that was available in vinyl.
January 20th, 2015 at 4:59 PM ^
January 20th, 2015 at 2:22 PM ^
Someone who has Best Buy as the nearest music seller, its all about proximity to my location
January 20th, 2015 at 2:11 PM ^
I shall indeed be attempting to purchase an album today, but only the one that somehow managed to get broken in a scuffle whose circumstances and outcome may never be known. One of my kids managed to break one of the discs which comprise my copy of Kraftwerk's live album "Minimum-Maximum", so I shall be shopping for the replacement later. If you don't have kids yet, all I can say is consider keeping the CDs you may still have off of open tables.
January 20th, 2015 at 2:12 PM ^
I'm down with Lupe, but Kendrick Lamar's new release will be rap album of the year.
January 20th, 2015 at 2:13 PM ^
What is this "buying albums" you speak of? In a world with services like Spotify and others, I can't even remember the last album that I bought.
I love hip hop and will check out these albums tho. Spotify FTW.
January 20th, 2015 at 3:35 PM ^
January 20th, 2015 at 4:25 PM ^
Solid process. I have two kids under the age of 3, so enjoying the quality of a vinyl is not an option for me now-a-days, so I only use Spotify. I would love to be able to enjoy a vinyl though.
I have two sonos speakers at home, so the integreation with Spotify is awesome. Plus the streaming on your mobile device is awesome for driving around. Not to mention the playlists. Its hard to go wrong with Spotify.
January 20th, 2015 at 5:04 PM ^
January 20th, 2015 at 2:15 PM ^
B4.DA.$$ and Tetsuo & Youth are both awesome. I have been waiting a while for these 2 albums to drop and neither has dissapointed me.
I have listened to the Joey Badass album about 5 times so far, and am making my first trek through Tetsuo & Youth.
So amped!
January 20th, 2015 at 2:16 PM ^
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January 20th, 2015 at 2:45 PM ^
Making crappy radio hits was forced on him by Atlantic Records. Even T&Y wasn't supposed to come out. If Anonymous didn't threaten Atlantic Records another radio/poppy album like Lasers would have been released. Lupe has released stuff like his first two albums you just have to search for it.
With that said I don't even see anything making him a hypocrite. He doesn't "Dumb it Down" except for some songs on Lasers, but even that album has some pretty meaningful songs. Listen to All Black Everything and State Run Radio and tell me that album is crappy radio hits.
January 20th, 2015 at 2:16 PM ^
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January 20th, 2015 at 2:30 PM ^
#detroithiphop
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January 20th, 2015 at 2:33 PM ^
January 20th, 2015 at 2:44 PM ^
I think Lupe is/was one of the greatest rappers of this era, which isn't saying much, but it's still something. Food and Liquor was amazing, and The Cool was one of the best sophomore hip hop albums of all time (I'm not saying it competes with Late Registration, The Score or ATLiens, but it deserves to be in the same conversation as far as 2nd albums go).
However, while enjoyed a few songs off of Lasers and even more off of F&L II, they just weren't the same. It's clear he's lost a little bit of the fire he had early and has become a bit disenfranchised with the whole game that is the music industry. In other words, some of the stuff he's put out lately sounds a little forced.
I'm definitely going to listen to this album and enjoy a decent amount of the tracks (and I know it will be better than most stuff that gets put out this year), but I'm not expecting anything from here on out to ever replicate what he accomplished with songs like "Daydreamin" and "Hip-Hop Saved My Life."
January 20th, 2015 at 2:47 PM ^
He did an interview last night and admitted F&L2 was just an album to hand in so he could get off his contract, and that this is the proudest moment basically that he made T&Y and can release it to the public.
If this interview doesnt get you hyped that 'Lupe Back' then idk what could besides the album itself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJR2M1YJVNk
January 20th, 2015 at 2:44 PM ^
January 20th, 2015 at 2:59 PM ^
I have a Premium Spotify account so I load up all the new releases that come out each Tuesday and listen to them all throughout the week. Looking forward to the Joey Badass album as 'Teach Me' is the track of the year so far. Also looking forward to the new Enter Shakari and marilyn Manson. Curious about the Lupe and the Sleater-Kinney comeback.
January 20th, 2015 at 8:44 PM ^
Didn't think i'd have much to add to this thread since i haven't bought a rap CD since the 90s, but did you just say that one of the songs was "the track of the year so far"??? Its January 20th. Is that kind of like saying that a 20 yard pass on the first possesion is the "the play of the game so far" even though there is 10 minutes left in the 1st quarter??
January 20th, 2015 at 2:59 PM ^
January 20th, 2015 at 3:18 PM ^
Good Kid maad City is the best rap album of this decade, easily. Probably best since the early Kanye stuff.
January 20th, 2015 at 4:11 PM ^
You have got to be freaking kidding me. Good Kid Madd City was embarrassing. This was supposed to ressurect the west, but the only track that reminded me of the west was the one with MC Eiht. Otherwise it was a 3 listen and delete ablum, just like all of Kanye's wack ass catalogue. Hip hop has some dope underground artists, but the late 80's- 94 years will never be duplicated.
January 20th, 2015 at 9:26 PM ^
Kanye's first three albums are far from wack, all are classics. Kendrick's first album was great.
Yeah, it doesn't stack up quite against 36 Chambers or Illmatic or Paul's Boutique or whatever. But do the Black Keys stack up against Led Zeppelin? I'd say no. Same thing. Most hip-hop today is kinda weak IMO but that might be the "get off my lawn" in me talking.
January 20th, 2015 at 4:11 PM ^
You have got to be freaking kidding me. Good Kid Madd City was embarrassing. This was supposed to ressurect the west, but the only track that reminded me of the west was the one with MC Eiht. Otherwise it was a 3 listen and delete ablum, just like all of Kanye's wack ass catalogue. Hip hop has some dope underground artists, but the late 80's- 94 years will never be duplicated.
January 20th, 2015 at 3:32 PM ^
January 20th, 2015 at 8:31 PM ^
Eminen as a pure lyricist but some of his stuff rubs me the wrong way.
January 20th, 2015 at 3:17 PM ^
January 20th, 2015 at 3:40 PM ^
Today is Malcolm McLaren's birthday, so I'm listening to the Sex Pistols all day.