How? How can he do this so easily? Not even once did he sound pretentious throughout entire his career. It's like he is born with the spirit of a great artist. Words move mountains, and that's what Lu is doing. He gotta be in the convo for the best rapper that have ever lived!
@@kareem8064 yeah, I know that, and now imagine if Lupe did indeed take his time to write it... imagine what kind of masterpiece album it would've been.
@@kareem8064 IDK man, is that story real? How is that even possible? I mean did he create the album from scratch in 72 hrs? From his bars to all the instrumentals? That sounds impossible to me, lowkey.
Lupe is not just a rapper. He actually deserves a title artist. He makes art. Mural trilogy is easily the greatest song trilogy ever. All genres, all ages. Easily
@@jmarq753 i think it's important to separate art from entertainment. Sure, we give all musicians a title artist, but i don't think all of em deserve it. It's crystal clear that certain artists don't make music for art but purely for entertainment, which is fine, but if the intention behind it is just entertainment, we shouldn't call it art. You really cannot compare something like 6ix9ine's music to Lupe's music. Clearly there is no substance there. He's not making that music for people to appreciate his artistry, but solely for entertainment. It's party music, not art
Lupe's Mural series and Kendrick Heart series are a free expression of art that I appreciate becuase it's nice to see the artist really get to be the artist. If that makes sense...
The song can be broken down to a narrative about hip hop, at face value it's a story of an eccentric painter and a moronic patron. The layers to this one track are insane. DMIZ is the best album I've heard this year so far, and the bar to beat it is in the clouds.
@@natsusatsujinki8342 why are you randomly bringing up Kendrick when there have been multiple rap albums released this year. Also, idk what u mean by less forced and more authentic. U just using words to sound good and gaslight.
@@natsusatsujinki8342 nah man, Kendrick has a gold album. It was therapy on record, I dunno why you said it wasn't authentic. Imo he got the aoty, but lupe too has reached the bar to get that title.
@@natsusatsujinki8342 I think the artistry and depth of Lupe's joint goes beyond Push. Both dope, but in a different way. I think this was Kendrick's best album, but I personally haven't listened to it since that first week and I skipped through tracks the 2nd and 3rd listen.
@@bluffboi bleh. I been over the hype since control. Won't even waste time checking for dude. Dude ain't doing nothing I or my top 10 ain't done before. Lupe and Pusha T are aoty candidates but it's also pretty early.
Best Lupe I've heard in years. Ive been underwhelmed with a lot of his recent work because it was too preachy and overly dense to the point where the message would get lost in the verbiage. But this is sharp, concise, thematic. The Mural beats keep getting worse but the lyrics keep getting so much better.
Love how the complex rhyming gives way to the patrons rhymes scheme which is so basic whilst he is patronizing lupes work a diatribe. That tips Lupe over the edge to set him on fire. Genius
It's a love letter to Hip Hop. Setting it on fire, refers to Himself (Internally), Hip Hop (The art being created), and the "fans" of Hip Hop (The Patron, who often views the artist with a patronizing detachment). Setting it all on fire (IE Letting it go to create art true to himself) was the point. At least, that's just my interpretation for this song. There are others equally valid of course.
First time hearing this album yesterday. I thought about Lupe and decided to search on youtube music to just listen to one of his older album's and to my surprise he had a new one. Needless to say Lupe never disappoints.
Human kind will exist forever if we can just keep telling GREAT STORIES!! And learn how to really truly listen. Thank you for sharing your gifts, Lupe.
I completely understand people who sleep on Lu. He is not for the masses. He is a special being 😭😭😭 i've beeeeen talking about the rhyme schemes on this track 😭🙌🏽♥️
At the end of the first verse, Lu says, “looked at the empty canvass, I think I have a name. I’ll call it gasoline, pouring on the flames.” I think the canvass in this instance is the Patron. Thus you get… “the model took its place, the painter grabbed the lighter. Doused the shit in gasoline and set it all on fire.”
Interesting take. I see it slightly differently. Sorry in advanced for the block of text lol: So in the first verse, as you said, he looks at the empty canvas. But in the second verse, the Patron asks him about a separate pile ("Are those rejections or mistakes?"). The Painter basically refers to it as waste ("That pile over there is just the evidence of angst/ The failed revival of a perfectionist when his efforts have just sank/ A selection of the waste that lacks direction or a base"). The lack of direction he mentions makes sense when he later says how the "art world" contradicts itself on a whim just for the sake of trends ("One day it's raising up the brand, the next it's shredding it to flakes/ And the velocity of trends is what referees the pace"). The issue he faces is that his morality stands diametrically opposed to what he must do for success, and I believe that conflict of interests is evident in and adds to his "waste" pile ("Professionally accept what ethically I hate/ So in all of my work you see this wrestling with fate"). Now going back to the Patron, she praises the Painter for his views and how he's able to express them. BUT, the Patron doesn't seem to truly grasp or at least appreciate everything the Painter conveyed. She's very surface level in her praise, and even refers to it as a diatribe, which is normally delivered by someone bitter and angry...definitely a negative word. The Painter then asks the Patron to stand atop the "waste" pile before he "doused the shit in gasoline and set it all on fire". I think that as the pile and the Patron burned, the Painter covered the canvas, and she unknowingly inspired the next Mural. Of course...I could always be off lol.
I need help...I'm still digesting this 🤦🏽♂️.. Lupe is too deep for the world, I can probably find the meaning of his lyrics on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean near the pearls (wait..that's a bar) 💡🤔...💪😆 #ChicagoWestside
@@JJRegal4 Great observation dude! I still need to listen more of this song till i come to a conclusion but your analysis comes close to what I think also
I think the patron is the music industry because the artist sets the patron on fire at the end as he stands on top the artist's work. Needless to say the fact that you and I can draw different meanings from this show just how genius Lupe is.
@@shulakuka yeah. im sure that was intended. setting the patron to fire could also mean Lupe making music he likes and not just for the money/sales/charts etc..
I think it’s pretty clear the painter is Lupe and the patron stands for his fans, but there’s levels on top of levels here and that is not the only way to read it. It’s like an onion, or two onions rolled inside each other.
"If you had to paint the gutter, which color would you choose?" We'll have to choose every color if you keep rhyming the every single word. Lupe is crazy.
You can break down the words that rhyme, but it'll take a while to to study and understand what is being said. All that whilst being a underrated legend of the word
Mural (From Tetsuo and Youth) Mural Jr. (From Drogas Waves) Ms. Mural ( Drill Music In Zion) Can't wait for the whole family portrait to be complete and we will see there's a bigger picture that Lupe Fiasco is painting.
I really need to correct the lyrics here. Lupe says "A gift from the rare for the digestion of the can't." Artist are rare and most people who digest art can't do art themselves.
@@sinaklsindre2831 BROOOO, this verse alone is better than whole mfs discogs. And that line is crazy, he's saying most of these niggas trash, they competitively trash.
Just a note of notice... The rhyme scheme remain layered and internally intricate until the patron responds to the diatribe... Then the rhyme scheme is simplified, instead of the multi-syllabic we get one key rhyme four 4 bars before the painter decides much like the "waste," this persons opinion, is only valuable as food "warmed" for the mural.
Best Lupe I've heard in years. Ive been underwhelmed with a lot of his recent work because it was too preachy and overly dense to the point where the message would get lost in the verbiage. But this is sharp, concise, thematic. The Mural beats keep getting worse but the lyrics keep getting so much better.
Have we been listening to the same Lu? His message is always there, it's another thing that he decided to express himself through meta narratives in this song so it would be easier to catch. Mazinger for example, it's full of different messages, but the lyricsim is heavy and might put others off, but it doesn't mean that there is no message. Gotta dig deeper, that's how people appreciate art.
I think it's possible to read it that way. And I suspect that plenty of artists struggle with these feelings. I NEED patrons. But I don't want to create art for YOU, I create it for me. But I need some snooty person with expendable money to pretend to understand it so I can buy groceries.
A ubiquitous observation I've noticed, is the similarities behind the message of Ms. Mural and Kendrick Lamars N95. In execution, they are divergent songs, worlds apart. Conceptually they mirror one another with a parallel resolution. Much like the artists themselves. One being airy, poetic and anecdotal and the other direct, intense and straightforward. "Oh you worried bout a critic that aint protocol bitch!" Meanwhile Lupe creates a mural out of the song to say exactly the same thing by the end of it all. Just thought it is cool how they're presenting similar concepts and critiques with such wildly differing execution.
This song man... he's talking about art on the surface while making a song that is a masterpiece. Lupe is a gift.
Lupe is the 🐐🐐🐐
Indeed
Eureka!!!
If you read between the lines it's a suicidal vampire artist
“Professionally accept what ethically I hate”
Lupe said no more compromises, cut the bullshit. Mad respect.
How? How can he do this so easily? Not even once did he sound pretentious throughout entire his career. It's like he is born with the spirit of a great artist. Words move mountains, and that's what Lu is doing. He gotta be in the convo for the best rapper that have ever lived!
Legend has it he made the album in 72 hours and the producers were all in shock and awe after making it with what Lupe was able to do in such a time.
Probably the
@@kareem8064 yeah, I know that, and now imagine if Lupe did indeed take his time to write it... imagine what kind of masterpiece album it would've been.
@@kareem8064 IDK man, is that story real? How is that even possible? I mean did he create the album from scratch in 72 hrs? From his bars to all the instrumentals? That sounds impossible to me, lowkey.
@@beinerthchitivamachado9892 I think it may just be the recording process but not 100% on how much was done in that 72 hrs.
This is my favorite track of the year, Lupes lyricism is unmatched
Check out Heart on Fire by Little Simz then
Thank me Later
Lupe is not just a rapper. He actually deserves a title artist. He makes art. Mural trilogy is easily the greatest song trilogy ever. All genres, all ages. Easily
Debatable. Joe Budden got a great few. Damien from DMX. Might be some I'm missing but this is off the top
rappers are artists
rapping is an art form and discrediting those who dont live up to some bogus made up standard as “not artists” is corny and outdated as fuck
@@jmarq753 every person that grabs a paintbrush ain't Picasso.
@@jmarq753 i think it's important to separate art from entertainment. Sure, we give all musicians a title artist, but i don't think all of em deserve it. It's crystal clear that certain artists don't make music for art but purely for entertainment, which is fine, but if the intention behind it is just entertainment, we shouldn't call it art. You really cannot compare something like 6ix9ine's music to Lupe's music. Clearly there is no substance there. He's not making that music for people to appreciate his artistry, but solely for entertainment. It's party music, not art
The Mural Trilogy is truly incredible, each one achieving a different purpose. Love Lupe man
one of the greatest writers in the history of music and literature
Lupes metaphors are ridiculously layered, it’s crazy.
Always has been.
@@dettolgerm8345 true bro
Lupe's Mural series and Kendrick Heart series are a free expression of art that I appreciate becuase it's nice to see the artist really get to be the artist. If that makes sense...
The song can be broken down to a narrative about hip hop, at face value it's a story of an eccentric painter and a moronic patron. The layers to this one track are insane. DMIZ is the best album I've heard this year so far, and the bar to beat it is in the clouds.
I think Pusha T and Lupe Fiasco have album of year. I prefer this to Kendrick Lamar anyway. Just seems less forced and more authentic
@@natsusatsujinki8342 why are you randomly bringing up Kendrick when there have been multiple rap albums released this year. Also, idk what u mean by less forced and more authentic. U just using words to sound good and gaslight.
@@natsusatsujinki8342 nah man, Kendrick has a gold album. It was therapy on record, I dunno why you said it wasn't authentic. Imo he got the aoty, but lupe too has reached the bar to get that title.
@@natsusatsujinki8342 I think the artistry and depth of Lupe's joint goes beyond Push. Both dope, but in a different way. I think this was Kendrick's best album, but I personally haven't listened to it since that first week and I skipped through tracks the 2nd and 3rd listen.
@@bluffboi bleh. I been over the hype since control. Won't even waste time checking for dude. Dude ain't doing nothing I or my top 10 ain't done before. Lupe and Pusha T are aoty candidates but it's also pretty early.
Anyone else who got that rasin bran play on words? "One day they're raising up the brand. The next they're shredding it to flakes." Rasin bran flakes.
Good catch
people laughed at this man when he compared himself to kendrick lyrically. how much more proof do y’all need lmao
Kendrick isn’t even close to this lyricism
Worlds apart, Lu is on a whole other level most will never compare to
He's far superior to Kendrick lol
Best Lupe I've heard in years. Ive been underwhelmed with a lot of his recent work because it was too preachy and overly dense to the point where the message would get lost in the verbiage. But this is sharp, concise, thematic. The Mural beats keep getting worse but the lyrics keep getting so much better.
@@dgayle2348 this beat is dope tho, super chill
GOAT lyricist
The fact Lupe created this master piece in less than 6 hours its scary!
Man, give him his flowers. He’s a genius. On par with the greatest poets in antiquity.
Lupe is Just a monster 🔥🔥 good work bro
Love how the complex rhyming gives way to the patrons rhymes scheme which is so basic whilst he is patronizing lupes work a diatribe. That tips Lupe over the edge to set him on fire. Genius
This one actually made me tear up on how beautifully this was crafted! Genius’
Aight, so Lupe's just created a new Tier of Lyricism. You got your S Tier, and above it you got the Lupe Tier.
It's a love letter to Hip Hop.
Setting it on fire, refers to Himself (Internally), Hip Hop (The art being created), and the "fans" of Hip Hop (The Patron, who often views the artist with a patronizing detachment).
Setting it all on fire (IE Letting it go to create art true to himself) was the point. At least, that's just my interpretation for this song. There are others equally valid of course.
First time hearing this album yesterday. I thought about Lupe and decided to search on youtube music to just listen to one of his older album's and to my surprise he had a new one. Needless to say Lupe never disappoints.
After hearing this song and the album at least 10 times just today, I think this is my favorite entry into the Mural Series...
That 3 song run of "Precious things" "kiosk" and this is the best 3 song run I've heard in a minute
literal chills.
my favorite.
thank you so much for doing this.
this album is SO packed with goodness.
May god bless Lupe, and may god bless you too.
The whole drill music in Zion album is a masterpiece, it’s great music and it’s hard to find that these days.
Human kind will exist forever if we can just keep telling GREAT STORIES!! And learn how to really truly listen. Thank you for sharing your gifts, Lupe.
Brings a tear to my eye.
Damn, lu never disappoints 💯
Lupe Fiasco is an elite lyricist . Addressing a whole industry in such a succinct delivery of words
This is pure poetry
Thank you
I completely understand people who sleep on Lu. He is not for the masses.
He is a special being 😭😭😭 i've beeeeen talking about the rhyme schemes on this track 😭🙌🏽♥️
Very dope Channel and Content... keep it going!
This is poetic
GOAT'n
this is amazing:3
Lupe just so good
At the end of the first verse, Lu says, “looked at the empty canvass, I think I have a name. I’ll call it gasoline, pouring on the flames.” I think the canvass in this instance is the Patron. Thus you get… “the model took its place, the painter grabbed the lighter. Doused the shit in gasoline and set it all on fire.”
Interesting take. I see it slightly differently. Sorry in advanced for the block of text lol:
So in the first verse, as you said, he looks at the empty canvas. But in the second verse, the Patron asks him about a separate pile ("Are those rejections or mistakes?"). The Painter basically refers to it as waste ("That pile over there is just the evidence of angst/ The failed revival of a perfectionist when his efforts have just sank/ A selection of the waste that lacks direction or a base"). The lack of direction he mentions makes sense when he later says how the "art world" contradicts itself on a whim just for the sake of trends ("One day it's raising up the brand, the next it's shredding it to flakes/ And the velocity of trends is what referees the pace"). The issue he faces is that his morality stands diametrically opposed to what he must do for success, and I believe that conflict of interests is evident in and adds to his "waste" pile ("Professionally accept what ethically I hate/ So in all of my work you see this wrestling with fate").
Now going back to the Patron, she praises the Painter for his views and how he's able to express them. BUT, the Patron doesn't seem to truly grasp or at least appreciate everything the Painter conveyed. She's very surface level in her praise, and even refers to it as a diatribe, which is normally delivered by someone bitter and angry...definitely a negative word. The Painter then asks the Patron to stand atop the "waste" pile before he "doused the shit in gasoline and set it all on fire". I think that as the pile and the Patron burned, the Painter covered the canvas, and she unknowingly inspired the next Mural.
Of course...I could always be off lol.
I need help...I'm still digesting this 🤦🏽♂️.. Lupe is too deep for the world, I can probably find the meaning of his lyrics on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean near the pearls (wait..that's a bar) 💡🤔...💪😆 #ChicagoWestside
@@JJRegal4 that’s what I got from it too
@@JJRegal4 Great observation dude! I still need to listen more of this song till i come to a conclusion but your analysis comes close to what I think also
the patron is obviously us the fans and the artist is lupe
I think the patron is the music industry because the artist sets the patron on fire at the end as he stands on top the artist's work. Needless to say the fact that you and I can draw different meanings from this show just how genius Lupe is.
@@shulakuka yeah. im sure that was intended. setting the patron to fire could also mean Lupe making music he likes and not just for the money/sales/charts etc..
This man is a beast.
Lupe's the GOAT lyricist, easy
Heavy Gratitude.
Ps Lupe, Nas and Andre 3000 are my top 3 .
Pps Black Thought and Common are the remaining 2 in my top 5 alive.
Ain’t a bad list fam
Hail to thought, shout to common.
True art personified
All I’ve been listening to! smh beyond incredible
Elite lyricism right hear omg
I'm in tears cuz how beautiful this is!
Lupe don't retire anytime soon!!!
Had this on repeat since Friday! No cap.
You don't read or listen to this, you watch it. This a movie right here.
I think it’s pretty clear the painter is Lupe and the patron stands for his fans, but there’s levels on top of levels here and that is not the only way to read it. It’s like an onion, or two onions rolled inside each other.
I don't know, I'm reading it more as the artist in general, especially the gangsta rapper.
Poetry
Really great lyrics, love this song
"If you had to paint the gutter, which color would you choose?" We'll have to choose every color if you keep rhyming the every single word. Lupe is crazy.
Goddamn this man one of the greats.
so many colors!
"Less like putting on some make up more like severing a face"
Look at the cover
Interesting. I also interpret it as his art is less like dressing something up to become marketable, but rather revealing some deeper, uglier truth.
You can break down the words that rhyme, but it'll take a while to to study and understand what is being said. All that whilst being a underrated legend of the word
this is his most lyrically dense yet rewarding song sing 'Dumb it Down'
“Kick Push pt. 2” vibes…
Great job!
Mural (From Tetsuo and Youth)
Mural Jr. (From Drogas Waves)
Ms. Mural ( Drill Music In Zion)
Can't wait for the whole family portrait to be complete and we will see there's a bigger picture that Lupe Fiasco is painting.
I love kendrick but Lupe shoulda got a Pulitzer prize first
This album is fantastic
LUPE IS THE GOAT
lupe went crazy
I really need to correct the lyrics here. Lupe says "A gift from the rare for the digestion of the can't." Artist are rare and most people who digest art can't do art themselves.
It's also "So in all of my work you see this wrestling with FATE"....it's not "faith", but fate.
@@laneyj yes! Exactly!
@@laneyj i think thats a double entendre
What part are you correcting?
The song is 🔥.
It's gotta be illegal to be this good surely?
Did this nigga just put me in a trance?!
Can you do Manilla by Lupe? It would have so many pretty colours!
THE CURRENT ART WORLD IS JUST COMPETITIVELY OPAQUE!!! That line is sooo fucking hard.
I love his delivery and how long he drags this rhymescheme
@@sinaklsindre2831 BROOOO, this verse alone is better than whole mfs discogs. And that line is crazy, he's saying most of these niggas trash, they competitively trash.
The lyrics are dope but the 4 and 5 syllables rhyme scheme throughtout is ridiculous.
This is actually better with the lyrics for me because it normally hard for me to follow Lupes train of thought
do the rhyme scheme for the title track next... bars
Just a note of notice... The rhyme scheme remain layered and internally intricate until the patron responds to the diatribe... Then the rhyme scheme is simplified, instead of the multi-syllabic we get one key rhyme four 4 bars before the painter decides much like the "waste," this persons opinion, is only valuable as food "warmed" for the mural.
Paint the gutter with the blues. Whoo, boy. True though. S'pose I gotta chew through these alloys whole.
Dope 🤫it.
This song can literally be understood from the perspective of race, hip hop, or art. Even altogether. I see the race concept more clearly though
The fking Oyabun Carrera..mans is definition of lead by example 👏 🙌.
We need Em and Lupe on a song.
Deep 🔥, nas would be a great candidate for thos feat.
Feel like he’s talking to Royce on a lot of this
its not. think deeper into the songs. its about art vs commercialism, and tiptoeing the line between the two
Wow..
I'm kinda new to actually breaking down a rhyme scheme. Can someone explain what I'm looking at with there certain colors?
Best Lupe I've heard in years. Ive been underwhelmed with a lot of his recent work because it was too preachy and overly dense to the point where the message would get lost in the verbiage. But this is sharp, concise, thematic. The Mural beats keep getting worse but the lyrics keep getting so much better.
The beat is great what are you talking about, the jazz influence is real
Have we been listening to the same Lu? His message is always there, it's another thing that he decided to express himself through meta narratives in this song so it would be easier to catch. Mazinger for example, it's full of different messages, but the lyricsim is heavy and might put others off, but it doesn't mean that there is no message. Gotta dig deeper, that's how people appreciate art.
What's bad about the beat? The albums Jazz production sounded great to me.
Drogas Wave isn’t really preachy. Did you check that one out?
First Kanye then Kendrick now Lupe 2022 a good year
How many unique words are in this song? 👀
More than most rapper's entire album lol
Are we, the consumers of Lupe music, the patrons in this song? 😔
I think it's possible to read it that way. And I suspect that plenty of artists struggle with these feelings.
I NEED patrons. But I don't want to create art for YOU, I create it for me. But I need some snooty person with expendable money to pretend to understand it so I can buy groceries.
Sheesh
You can also say he's interviewing God. Lupe gives his fans so many different ways to view his craft. I love the song as an art stan personally.
How is cover and trunk both orange?
i said that about ground being green in the last verse
Why is a single "A" highlighted
Ayo its street fighter guy
Lupe Fiasco and Kendrick Lamar similar don't really understand where the hate comes from 😢
PHUCK!!!!
Wtf is ms mural?? What I miss??
Ohhh Zion is out
Kendrick and J Cole are my fav “current” artists, but when it comes to pure lyricism Lupe is second to nobody
The only part that isn't lit up with color is when the patron is speaking because he doesn't understand the art.
Coming at Kendrick on this
Stop Talk About Kendrick Lupe Sucks
@@herivaldoagostinho1694 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
No he's not 💀 which part of the track went over your head or was it just the whole thing
No he’s not
@@skeletorlaugh7095 what
Mf doom inspired
Its not really a beef conceptually its steak, like do genitals and gender roles succesfully conflate🤧
A ubiquitous observation I've noticed, is the similarities behind the message of Ms. Mural and Kendrick Lamars N95.
In execution, they are divergent songs, worlds apart.
Conceptually they mirror one another with a parallel resolution. Much like the artists themselves.
One being airy, poetic and anecdotal and the other direct, intense and straightforward.
"Oh you worried bout a critic that aint protocol bitch!"
Meanwhile Lupe creates a mural out of the song to say exactly the same thing by the end of it all.
Just thought it is cool how they're presenting similar concepts and critiques with such wildly differing execution.
You could say the same for plenty of artists that have tackled the subject of “critique of culture/society/art”