I grew up on LUPE. I went from bumping Food & Liquor as a child while in the car with my mother, and her stating "You like music with a message. I like that as well." . Then The Cool dropped and it played out my life. I was really searching for The Cool. I died in the process back in March 2023. I was hours away from being pronounced dead from an accidental Xanax overdose. I have a lot more to say, but I must restart this "song" soon. My mother died when I was just 19, I am now 32. I know she's in these headphones as I play this song. I know she is happy that I am practicing sobriety. I know she is happy I am still listening to this type music. .thanks LUPE
Man…..man…….I’m 30 now. Been a fan of Lu since the 6th grade. Those chills I used to get to his wordplay I still get em lol. Lu always been one of a kind lyrically. Always will be MY 🐐
"They just try to slow us down like instruments in Texas" Lu referencing school calculators while also referring to chopped and screwed music which originated in Texas. Dude is a lyrical miracle 🔥
Texas Instruments also made CPU processors not just calculators. So another way you can look at that line is they trying to throttle us. You used to have to throttle their chips because they would overheat.
I don't know how many bars just went over people's heads, but this is The Cool Lupe, yet again. This is one of the best raps he's ever written. Those bars, especially in the 3rd, are just pure analogous insanity. Jesus Christ.
“Reverse Aztec put my heart in the verse.” 😵 the Aztec used to hold rituals in which they’d cut out the hearts of their sacrificed victims. Lu’s stating he puts his heart (life and soul) into his music with that 🔥 verse.
"we was in the store man but we aint want nothin cuz we was poor" He is so slept on. I first heard him in that kanye track and I have been a fan since. Happy to hear him again years later!!!!!
Lupe is the only rapper that still raps the exact way he did when he came out in 2006 with food and liquor that’s why I like him he’s still speaking intelligence and knowledge to alot people in the black culture he’s still positive rapping
“Lookin' for somethin' heaven sent, like it's medicine in the moon Or intelligence in the heaviness of a tune How much your song weigh? Thirty pounds for every entendre So the playlist will still be heavy as a spaceship on a spaceship Even though it's weightless A bar full of plates so a waitress weightlifts with every single entree Contray to what the pawn say, swan slay with every convey If words were rocks, birds in flocks, stop that's not the chess of the experts That's a straight rookie move To get close to the DOS, I fed 'em bread first” As I keep going over these bars, I uncover more and more punchlines. Lupe is GOAT-tier, man 🔥🔥🔥.
As a lifelong fan, im just enjoying the diversity of sound Lupe is producing. He has 100% control over his creativity and its been fun seeing what hes been able to make with that amount of control
Have to love and respect that he realized the value of that control from a young age when he easily could have played to whatever angle they were pushing had fortunes more in a worldly sense, but the integrity he kept was worth a million fortunes more and he still never felt off because his fans had his back all along. Lupe isn’t just an otherworldly hip-hop talent, he truly as walk the walk and talk the talk start to finish and is a leader of our generation! 💐👑🤴🏽
It must suck to rap better than everyone else and not get the recognition. Lupe is levels above any rapper in the game! Now I have to listen to this 10 more times to get everything! Shout out to all those who appreciate real lyricism.
This song is dope and Lupe IS at the top level but to say he's so many levels above everybody else and that nobody else is at his level is just asinine. Maybe nobody else you listen to or know of but trust me there are multiple handfuls of others with lyricism and delivery at this level. Expand your horizons my friend. I can drop names if needed but this is just objectively not true and shows the limits of most people's scope of real hip hop. There are plenty of incredible lyricists out there you just have to find them.
@@AnonymousBoss1 the pyramids and triangles in the video are references to Jay-Z’s record label “Roc-A-Fella” which the title of the track obviously also references. But you are entitled to believe in whatever conspiracy theories you want to sir.
@@ZEC020 bruh..Im not against Jay-Z , but im gonna let u know there is satanic lyrics in one of Jays songs. Its alright because you will absorb the subliminals they are showing. Lupe IS talented but there is by a FACT SYMBOLS AND SUBLIMINALS dont be blind my guy!
I first heard this on TH-cam music 10 minutes ago but I had to come here because I had to say how absolute goat levels this tune actually is. That second verse hits different. Protect this goat at all costs.
You are a genius the lyrics are the truth. What black man goes through on the daily. You mix the political w the realities. I am 64 watched Hip Hop come to be. Some of the greatest lyrics, music & dance of Hip Hops in last 50 years. It has melded into the fabric of world societies. Very deep & true. Thanks for all your intelligence & truth. Thanks so much for being you. 🙏🏿❣️🙏🏿❣️🙏🏿❣️
Lupe is the show that continues to go on 🔥 I remember being in middle school listening to his music on the way to school...now I'm older still listening to his music on the way to work 😆 he's one of the few artists that bring me nostalgia. He's who you listen to to jump start you on a Monday and end your day in ease on a Friday 😌
Every few years, a hip-hop song comes along where I obsess on the lyrics until I know them by heart; This is that song. I can already tell from the first listen. Absolute masterpiece.
Lupe does it again that’s why he is one of my favorite rapper ever because he’s always been positive and spit knowledge and wisdom and intelligence to black people in the black community 🙏🏾
Real HipHop is suppressed. I'm so happy this dropped. 🔥. I saw Lupe Live in Downtown Portland years ago and he basically was like yeah...I can't rap what you want me to rap. And rocked the house with the songs he could do. I always appreciated him keeping it a buck 💯 about his legal and contractual limitations. First and Fifteenth Forever.
Came because I remember superstar from my youth being an absolute banger. I've grown into hip hop as I've grown up but not been listening to Lupe. This is real hip hop. Flow lyrics and melody all on point 🔥
Truthfully, I was okay with Lupe not dropping music for a while because DMIZ is still being played daily. The fact that he’s casually dropping 🌊 records has been a gift from somebody who doesn’t have to give us anything. Thanks for the art 🎨
This was a pretty fun song! It really makes you admire the countless hours that goes into sorting out how words can gel together nicely. This is very much an achievement. You rock!
“Put variables in my dataset and then I deviated. It’s miricles in the dataset. It’s like I DBA. It’s TD Jake’s without a CPA I used CTA.” Those bars alone make me appreciate him as an artist.
❤Lupe is still my favorite emcee after all these years!! I remember seeing him in concert...it was an amazing experience. He is saving hip-hop for real!❤
The production, the flow is taking me back to my college days when I played Food and Liquor and The Cool cds until they ‘bout melted. I fell in love with Lupe when he played a show at my campus. I can almost place myself back there during that time.
What A Very Dope Joint. This Is Definitely Going To Inspire Artist To Get Back To This Level Or Artistry In Their Music Because It's Been Long Overdue. Thank You Lupe, Your Music Is Immaculate.
So Chill free right? Think about how much harder this man Lu is about to go. We might get a longer string of Pandemic Lu bombs. This shit gonna be a 20yr run of hot albums and concerts with 1st&15th heads as multi billionaires. I hope
Thank you for this, you get that beautiful nostalgia feeling like you've heard it 1000 times with the joy and excitement experienced when you find new 🔥 music 🙏🏾🎵🔥
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I grew up on LUPE.
I went from bumping Food & Liquor as a child while in the car with my mother, and her stating "You like music with a message. I like that as well." .
Then The Cool dropped and it played out my life. I was really searching for The Cool.
I died in the process back in March 2023. I was hours away from being pronounced dead from an accidental Xanax overdose.
I have a lot more to say, but I must restart this "song" soon.
My mother died when I was just 19, I am now 32.
I know she's in these headphones as I play this song. I know she is happy that I am practicing sobriety. I know she is happy I am still listening to this type music.
.thanks LUPE
Hey man congrats on sobriety and rip to your mom i lost my pops in december and been sober for a while too
❤
Respect fr
This is beautiful, man. Keep striving 😭
Congratulations on your sobriety. I wish you well on your journey.
Man…..man…….I’m 30 now. Been a fan of Lu since the 6th grade. Those chills I used to get to his wordplay I still get em lol. Lu always been one of a kind lyrically. Always will be MY 🐐
Same bro
HOW OLD IS LUPE?
@@Hashdough he's 41. Time flies, I'm 31 and rememeber food and liquor being my favorite album in the 9th grade. Still is.
Facts
Halo 2 + F&L forever go together for me
"They just try to slow us down like instruments in Texas" Lu referencing school calculators while also referring to chopped and screwed music which originated in Texas. Dude is a lyrical miracle 🔥
Jesus Christ
Bro I didn't get the chopped and screwed part holy shit
@@orewayasuke888 Knowing Lupe there's probably more subliminals in that bar that went over my head as well so don't feel bad bro.
Texas Instruments also made CPU processors not just calculators. So another way you can look at that line is they trying to throttle us. You used to have to throttle their chips because they would overheat.
He really is lyrical miracle
1:36
“somewhere between jazz, Jigga, and drill,
Minus all the 🥷🏽 🥷🏽 it kills…”
Lupe is GOATED.
Huh man 💯
Reminds us of his “ little death “ track on Tetsuo and Youth
“ somewhere between amateurs and grandmasters of iambic pentameter” 😅 “
I'm from a lyrical miracle biblical guild, a great white clearing his gills
This man checks the boxes that haven't been constructed yet.
Um I respect your opinion g but Nas magic 2
@@VHSRomeColosseumunnecessary .
You mind if I borrow that for a bar?????
@@Odyssey636 na that’s all of y’all 🤷♂️😂
@@iquanwilliams4905 I’m just saying it’s level to it
I don't know how many bars just went over people's heads, but this is The Cool Lupe, yet again. This is one of the best raps he's ever written. Those bars, especially in the 3rd, are just pure analogous insanity. Jesus Christ.
That last Texas Instruments bar definitely flew over many people’s heads lol.
@@casualt3350 Without a doubt. As a Texan, fire haha 🔥
Factz! He left 🌎 on that last verse!
Definitely gonna take me like 100 listens
This is the Lupe that made me realize my taste in "lyrical" rap was lacking 🤣
“Reverse Aztec put my heart in the verse.” 😵 the Aztec used to hold rituals in which they’d cut out the hearts of their sacrificed victims. Lu’s stating he puts his heart (life and soul) into his music with that 🔥 verse.
😌 ( " When it makes sense ") nice! 🔥
The one man, half dash, Carter & birth.....Roc a Fella y'all
I love that entire passage.
LUPE IS HIM. None above lyrically.
You go to Harvard to be a Lupe Stan.....Lyrical Genius this bloke is
You go to Harvard to be a Lupe Stan.....Lyrical Genius this bloke is
Fire.. Years ahead.. Nas Jay z level
He and Aesop Rock. Its a struggle over who I would place at the top. I'm going Madden 20 and bringing both GOATS to the cover
This has that Lupe first two album classic feel.
Lupe last album had that classic feel
@dong5500 they stopped paying attention, totally missed T&Y, Waves, and DMIZ
@@Don_g1983 💯
@@thegoldenhero They did, all of these were masterpieces
@@thegoldenherofacts, I still bump light once and a while too
This shouldn't be free. This should on an album.
"we was in the store man but we aint want nothin cuz we was poor" He is so slept on. I first heard him in that kanye track and I have been a fan since. Happy to hear him again years later!!!!!
50 years of hiphop lupe is the embodiment of that proud to be a witness 🙏🏿
LUPE is definitely one of the goats in HIP-HOP. This joint is fire!
Dude is definitely top tier 💯
@@russellrobinson6404 Yup!
I think he’s the next this century
@@FB-ch5yz Yeah.
I think I'm the only one here from India and that too from a small town over here in the Himalayas.
Lupe is an anomaly. A true Maestro
..said better, than every single American on this thread..
Salute bro..
Mee too bro from mumbai
My coworker is from South India, she says it is super hot and humid there. I'd love to see the mountain areas tho
He has been dropping a lot lately! Lupe, drop another album with rap like this. This makes me feel young again.
Lupe is the only rapper that still raps the exact way he did when he came out in 2006 with food and liquor that’s why I like him he’s still speaking intelligence and knowledge to alot people in the black culture he’s still positive rapping
@@darianbroomfield8361lupe stopped spitting on a consistent basis years ago. He number 2 on my all time list. I'm just being honest.
@@Odyssey636 yeah lazers only bad album wich wasent even his choice to put out
I wanna say this is from the mixtape days in like 2005, 2006. . No way this is current. Maybe the visuals
“Lookin' for somethin' heaven sent, like it's medicine in the moon Or intelligence in the heaviness of a tune How much your song weigh? Thirty pounds for every entendre So the playlist will still be heavy as a spaceship on a spaceship Even though it's weightless A bar full of plates so a waitress weightlifts with every single entree Contray to what the pawn say, swan slay with every convey If words were rocks, birds in flocks, stop that's not the chess of the experts That's a straight rookie move To get close to the DOS, I fed 'em bread first”
As I keep going over these bars, I uncover more and more punchlines. Lupe is GOAT-tier, man 🔥🔥🔥.
Man is an alien
But ever gets mentioned
I'm from a lyrical myrical biblical guild, a great white clearing his gills the nearest mirror of skill." 🤯
It’s hard to comment intelligently on a Lupe song after one listen so I’ll just say 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
If he didn't put a million faces in this animation I'm speechless..
Exactly
Have to come back in September to comment
I'm still stuck on Animal Pharm 😟
@@chrisd3384 why September?
"Still a one-man class action trapped in his cause". Sublime bar. And what a way to end that loaded verse.
JESUS never thought that way, but makes sense..😮
No knock on the other recent releases, but this is that LUPE I’ve been looking for. Thank you ✌🏿
I agree😊
This was unbelievable
Nah I definitely feel you especially the last one he dropped but this one hit home
Same thing I said. This is the Lu I know.
3rd verse is 100% verse of the year so far 🔥 🔥 🔥
As a lifelong fan, im just enjoying the diversity of sound Lupe is producing. He has 100% control over his creativity and its been fun seeing what hes been able to make with that amount of control
Have to love and respect that he realized the value of that control from a young age when he easily could have played to whatever angle they were pushing had fortunes more in a worldly sense, but the integrity he kept was worth a million fortunes more and he still never felt off because his fans had his back all along.
Lupe isn’t just an otherworldly hip-hop talent, he truly as walk the walk and talk the talk start to finish and is a leader of our generation! 💐👑🤴🏽
feels like he captured the energy of that early to mid 2000's roc-a-fella era. Its difficult to describe but it seems so right. Good job Lu
jeezus this is the sharpest sword in rap rn. i can't think of anything comparable going at *this level*
Bro is such a lyrical genius & the flow is water
It must suck to rap better than everyone else and not get the recognition. Lupe is levels above any rapper in the game! Now I have to listen to this 10 more times to get everything! Shout out to all those who appreciate real lyricism.
This song is dope and Lupe IS at the top level but to say he's so many levels above everybody else and that nobody else is at his level is just asinine. Maybe nobody else you listen to or know of but trust me there are multiple handfuls of others with lyricism and delivery at this level. Expand your horizons my friend. I can drop names if needed but this is just objectively not true and shows the limits of most people's scope of real hip hop. There are plenty of incredible lyricists out there you just have to find them.
@@antondredoublee7727name them. I’m not saying it ain’t others. But let’s see those names
Reverse Aztec...put my heart in verse....
I almost spit my drink out 😮😮😮
Lupe is one of my top 5 for sure!
He is number 1
I go back and forth between Lupe, Andre 3000, and Blu
Top1
The greatest way to represent pure rap.
This is the Lupe that we all miss!
"If I gotta calculate it what's the point of keeping the score."💯🔥
Lupe still got it. Elevates everything and still filled with layers.
The most underrated rapper who never Sold his Soul.
Him and CH
are u blind?? Look at the symbols and subliminals he is using in the video lol
@@AnonymousBoss1 the pyramids and triangles in the video are references to Jay-Z’s record label “Roc-A-Fella” which the title of the track obviously also references. But you are entitled to believe in whatever conspiracy theories you want to sir.
@@ZEC020 bruh..Im not against Jay-Z , but im gonna let u know there is satanic lyrics in one of Jays songs. Its alright because you will absorb the subliminals they are showing. Lupe IS talented but there is by a FACT SYMBOLS AND SUBLIMINALS dont be blind my guy!
@@AnonymousBoss1 yes, pyramids. from Egypt. which is in Africa.
You know you a GOAT when 50% of online conversation about you is about comparing other artists to you. Lupe is the literal rap metric.
My Uber driver was playing this 🔥 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Oooooh tell me you had him play it on repeat
Dope! Life is good!
TIP THAT MAN!! 😂
Lupe fiasco is seriously slept on though.
Wow. Lupe is soothing to listen to. unique voice with impeccable rhymes and flow. 🔥🔥🔥
Bars after bars after bars 🔥🔥🔥🫡🫡
Lupe dipping into the SLR bag.... UNTOUCHABLE, he is.
Old Lupe Back! This remind me of Fahrenheit 1/15
I first heard this on TH-cam music 10 minutes ago but I had to come here because I had to say how absolute goat levels this tune actually is. That second verse hits different. Protect this goat at all costs.
I listen to this song at least once a day. Waiting for ppl to flood all the music reactors and bar breakdown channels with requests to do this song.
This….man…..is….NOT…..human.
Wow, absolutely legendary.
You are a genius the lyrics are the truth. What black man goes through on the daily. You mix the political w the realities. I am 64 watched Hip Hop come to be. Some of the greatest lyrics, music & dance of Hip Hops in last 50 years. It has melded into the fabric of world societies. Very deep & true. Thanks for all your intelligence & truth. Thanks so much for being you. 🙏🏿❣️🙏🏿❣️🙏🏿❣️
Lupe is the show that continues to go on 🔥 I remember being in middle school listening to his music on the way to school...now I'm older still listening to his music on the way to work 😆 he's one of the few artists that bring me nostalgia. He's who you listen to to jump start you on a Monday and end your day in ease on a Friday 😌
The visuals, the beat, the wordplay….thank you for this one Lu! 💯🙏🏾🙌🏾😂🔥🥂💎
His lyricism is so inspiring. My all time favorite rapper.
Every few years, a hip-hop song comes along where I obsess on the lyrics until I know them by heart; This is that song. I can already tell from the first listen. Absolute masterpiece.
Another one to dissect✍🏾
1st album will always be the illest...but he still got the barz
Lupe and Jay Electronica with Blu can melt eardrums
Lupe does it again that’s why he is one of my favorite rapper ever because he’s always been positive and spit knowledge and wisdom and intelligence to black people in the black community 🙏🏾
"Still a one man class action, still trapped in his cause"... 🔥🔥... There he is ... Lupe!!!
I smell an album with all these songs he’s dropping, food and liquor flow and beats. What a treat.
Real HipHop is suppressed. I'm so happy this dropped. 🔥. I saw Lupe Live in Downtown Portland years ago and he basically was like yeah...I can't rap what you want me to rap. And rocked the house with the songs he could do. I always appreciated him keeping it a buck 💯 about his legal and contractual limitations. First and Fifteenth Forever.
"Lupe Fiasco is a super computer, we got all we need..." - Ye
THIS SONG IS INCREDIBLE. HES SNAPPIN' ON THIS...
LETS STOP SLEEPING ON LUPE NOW. HE IS ONE OF THE BEST LYRICISTS TO EVER DO IT.
Nobody gonna talk about how Good the mix was...... Almost flawless
Sounds good everywhere I play it🎉
Another Friday drop of a 🔥 song from Lupe. Can't wait for the album
Can't ever say hip hop without cool young Lu... Straight greatness get manz a statue already in the chi
Chilly being home might be Lu's new motivation for all this. #LegendaryLu
This beat and Lu together is so incredible so victorious
Greatest rapper of all time. Seriously
Came because I remember superstar from my youth being an absolute banger. I've grown into hip hop as I've grown up but not been listening to Lupe. This is real hip hop. Flow lyrics and melody all on point 🔥
You might not understand it, BUT here goes The Greatest raps you ever gonna hear in this lifetime!
Lupe fiasco is a god now. He will never die 🔥
Lupe Fiasco is a underrated gem
Thank you…this here is a gift for those that know.
It’s not often that I listen to a rap verse and get goosebumps ❤️Lupe
Lately folks been making me feel awkward for being lyric focused but then Lupe comes and does it so well that I know that lyrics still do matter!
Love Lupe not just for his content but not conforming to todays short attention span craze of max 3 min long songs just for Spotify streams
THE MOST UNDERRATED OF ALL TIME.. PERIOD
"Somewhere between Jazz, Jigga and Drill"🔺️Roc a fella y'all 🔼 this is Genius
Lupe the Great!!!!!!!! From Detroit with love ❗️
Truthfully, I was okay with Lupe not dropping music for a while because DMIZ is still being played daily. The fact that he’s casually dropping 🌊 records has been a gift from somebody who doesn’t have to give us anything. Thanks for the art 🎨
The visuals giving off multiverse vibes. Love it
Fantastic track! I'm very hyped for an album.
This video on some Earth, Wind and Fire chit... 🏔️ 🌬️🔥
No one compares literally my favorite rapper of all time hus taste his cultural refrences make you keep google open ir a dictionary close by
Lyrical Genius 🤦🏾♂️🔥🔥🔥
This is still such a fuckin insane track. I've prolly listened to this shit 1000 times over and I'm still getting new shit
Indeed. It's Best to read lyrics and listen at the same time.
This was a pretty fun song! It really makes you admire the countless hours that goes into sorting out how words can gel together nicely. This is very much an achievement. You rock!
“Put variables in my dataset and then I deviated. It’s miricles in the dataset. It’s like I DBA. It’s TD Jake’s without a CPA I used CTA.” Those bars alone make me appreciate him as an artist.
I'm actually a DBA and my head fell off when I heard Lupe reference my profession in that way. He's a genius, most people don't even know what it is.
❤Lupe is still my favorite emcee after all these years!! I remember seeing him in concert...it was an amazing experience. He is saving hip-hop for real!❤
This why is why nas is my number 1 lupe my number 2 Kendrick number 3 then curren$y!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
SMART MAN. BALANCE. You just named my 3 favorites as well
The production, the flow is taking me back to my college days when I played Food and Liquor and The Cool cds until they ‘bout melted. I fell in love with Lupe when he played a show at my campus. I can almost place myself back there during that time.
Song of the year
What A Very Dope Joint. This Is Definitely Going To Inspire Artist To Get Back To This Level Or Artistry In Their Music Because It's Been Long Overdue. Thank You Lupe, Your Music Is Immaculate.
you're one of the greatest rappers EVER. sending love from BRASIL
Lupe just showed us day 1 fans he is not only back but literally better than ever (?!?!) wtff
The Omni-Mastermind on his grind, ain’t no better to find ! 💯💯💯
Been rocking with Lu since Fahrenheit. The goat and it’s not close. Never misses 🔥
So Chill free right? Think about how much harder this man Lu is about to go. We might get a longer string of Pandemic Lu bombs. This shit gonna be a 20yr run of hot albums and concerts with 1st&15th heads as multi billionaires. I hope
Oh word? Didn’t even know Chill was out.. Finally!
Bro right
Lu gonna drop that fuckin LupEND triple LP now that Chill is out
That was seriously the coolest concept album of all-time... FUCK ATLANTIC RECORDS
Yeah Chill is home, now the battery has been inserted in Lu's back
Thank you for this, you get that beautiful nostalgia feeling like you've heard it 1000 times with the joy and excitement experienced when you find new 🔥 music 🙏🏾🎵🔥
Lupe can make so many new songs and still sounds just as dope as all his classic albums and mixtapes
Love that kind of vibe
The second verse 🔥🔥🔥🔥 the whole song 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
That hook is so dope!
Roc a fella, if he would’ve sign that contract, my gosh 😮😮
"all proceeds to my chain"! Lupe still goes so hard
I hear you Lu🌹🌹🌹🔥🔥🔥the best ever in my book. Flowers deserved.
Lupe is a true legend his lyrics is unmatched 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥