He's right though. There are SOME New Yorkers who beleive that anything that doesn't come out of New York isn't hip-hop---and this enabled them to overlook GREAT artists such as Kurupt, Ice Cube, 8ball/MJG, Scarface,UGK, Outkast back in the day...NOW they look at the overall state of hip-hop today, and realize that artists such as Scarface and Outkast fully embodied what hip-hop is....I hate that bias shit...Judge all hip-hop the same way regardless of region and then there's no problem.
wow. this is INCREDIBLY interesting. makes me see lupe like differently and think of hip hop differently. cause like on the real i am a bit of a style hater, but in the end i guess what i appreciate is the lyrics so, i'm trying to keep my mind open to different styles of hip hop and lupe just sorta encouraged me to go further with exploring different avenues of it. i mean we do gotta keep in mind that chicago hailed artists like twista and do or die first before kanye and lupe.
LOL, I can't even lie! When I watched that Hip Hop Honors performance I was soooooo confused when I notice Lupe didn't know the lyrics! I heard he grew up on "gangster rap" before then but I always thought his style was more like A Tribe Called Quest and others like De La Soul anyways!! Very much more alike. Like Angie said, "that's very surprising by the way" That taught me more reasons why not to assume. You live & you learn. lol
Best rapper alive is all a matter of opinion. Anybody can claim or get that title, but not everyone will agree. I personally think Lupe is most def one of them.
the thing is, to get them yellow m&m's, they still have to go through all the bags wghich have red ones, meaning the insects stilll get crushed, but i think its more cos they're unclean than for the animals
Here some lines with real substance not selling poison and killing your own people "since it became a lucrative profession there's misconception that a movement in any direction is progression, even tho the potency of it lessens, big money industries writing checks to suppress the question"
OMG!! Bugs in my m&m's?! Totally gross!!! But don't we swallow 3 spiders a yr while sleeping? Lupe has enlightened me on the current state of candy. lol
Htu, I thought they meant whacked as in crazy. That's why they were like "yeah I wonder why." Which I guess your point still stands but my question is what do they use on the yellow m's? :*)
lupe the best rapper alive behind jay-z period anyone that doesnt agree doesnt know hip hop listen to the homies music i bet you's a wayne lover, type of nigga that like gucci none rapping ass
he has a good point, i dont think because he's a rapper he should know that song, and when i say know that song I mean know all the lyrics, but, however he should know that song. At least be familar with it, whitch he is.
How does that make him a fake, just because he didnt listen to them dosent mean he's a fake, and how many conscious rappers u know that sells over a million records?....., Lupe just said that Mc Hammer was more POPULAR then ATCQ, that's like me saying Lil Wayne is more popular then Cannibus but not better.
lol its lil wayne wayne can rap like he nice lupe and wayne are both very very very different i don't think lil wayne go tooo hard with the guns and drugs but his lyrics and how he put dem goes hard
Listen... 'Dumb It Down'... I dont see how u can hate on that record... it speaks to both sides... its tellin u, WHY ure gonna hate. WHY u SHOULDNT hate.. Its a bigger picture, u might have to back away from tha close-ups and really pay attention to detail...
I don't know what you and bloodsport are arguing about.But really why would you diss somebody like Canibus who works hard to achieve his art.Whether you like him or not, you could at least respect the work he puts in.Songs like Poet Laureate 2,Cenior Studies, AIDS shows ambition.Also Lupe rhyme structure really isn't complex.Even so complex rhymes dont make you good, it only makes things sound better.Canibus is the better lyricist.Nas is a better lyricists,as is Eminem,K-rino,and several others.
Exactly he used the backpack, skateboard, conscious rapper as a gimmick to sell records. What is so hard to understand? ANy hip hop fan that don't know who is Tribe Called Quest is fake.
I listen to Lupe's 1sat album and it wasn't all that. He didn't have any songs that stand out maybe to me his flow is weak. Canibus last album came out last year and it is a classic. No fastforwarding any songs. I can listen to it straight. Canibus now have a song called George Bush push the button. Classic song. Much better than Superstarrrrrrrr
He didnt diss tribe called quest he said he didnt listen 2 them. Everybody got they own opinion on who's nice and who's not. Canibus was nice but he done now (He got any albums out recently no) How tha hell lupe aint nice and he still doin his thing I hav no idea what u thinkin. And tha only poison he spits iz tha shit that kills these whack ass rappers like plies and yung berg. Listen 2 his album then come back and see me. Excuse me "US!"
Do I hav 2 talk 2 u like youre a child? Canibus iz done...he's nice but he's done and u sound so heartbroken over it like youre 9 years old and u just found out santa doesnt exist LOL! But I constantly run into people like u who didnt like lupe, listened 2 him and changed they mind. And if they still didnt like him they admitted he was nice
His gimmick is pretending to be conscious rapper. I'm into filmmaking. When I was 8 years old I knew who Boris Karloff, Bela Logusi and Lon Chaney were. Those cats acted in movies before I was even born. Why Lupe never listen to Tribe Called Quest before? I listen to Spice One before and I'm from New York. Brooklyn. I even bought MC Eiht, SPice One's album. I been buying West Coast, Southern rap before the dick riding.
ummmmmm, were the base of it all...yall need to grow up and learn the history. yea its all over but the base is ny, thats home. its like black history is more than just the civil rights movement, you gotta go all the way back to Africa when the Africans were chilling in Africa before slavery. You always gotta go back home and the problem is a lot of yall listening to Hiphop dont do the research. I mean i dont know every song from the beginning of hiphop but im trying...yall not even trying...
Can Lupe fuck with Canibus Hell No!!! Canibus "I wright the song,rhymes accelerate through the psychlotron and now microns, turn the mic on,regurgitate the windpipe bomb" Now give me a hotter line from Lupe. I'm waiting.
If he dont listen to Tribe called Quest why the hell he said he rock with Q -Tip? Just because they're on the same label?!!!Lupe is a fake. Lupe's style skateboard, backpack is just a gimmick. The song he have out now Dumb it Down is just a gimmick.
Lupe is nice, but in my opinion at this point he is slightly overrated.Only because Im strong on lyrical content, as is thats what I really pay attention to.
![@LupeFiasco breaks down over the 'ghosts' from his block. [RapFix 2012]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/8CFvg0DPvrU/mqdefault.jpg)
This guy man hes so cool and laid back but intelligent too....Nice combination
He's right though. There are SOME New Yorkers who beleive that anything that doesn't come out of New York isn't hip-hop---and this enabled them to overlook GREAT artists such as Kurupt, Ice Cube, 8ball/MJG, Scarface,UGK, Outkast back in the day...NOW they look at the overall state of hip-hop today, and realize that artists such as Scarface and Outkast fully embodied what hip-hop is....I hate that bias shit...Judge all hip-hop the same way regardless of region and then there's no problem.
lupe is so cool man. i have mad respect for him.
Lupe. One of the GOATs.
I was rehear-STOP! STOP STOP STOP! I was rehearsing all day...
That was great, he just started talking over her.
I’m in that weird part of the internet again
wow. this is INCREDIBLY interesting. makes me see lupe like differently and think of hip hop differently. cause like on the real i am a bit of a style hater, but in the end i guess what i appreciate is the lyrics so, i'm trying to keep my mind open to different styles of hip hop and lupe just sorta encouraged me to go further with exploring different avenues of it. i mean we do gotta keep in mind that chicago hailed artists like twista and do or die first before kanye and lupe.
Lupe the best youngest mainstream rapper out now. One of my favorites. You gotta listen to dude before you knock dude's style.
Love this man
LOL, I can't even lie! When I watched that Hip Hop Honors performance I was soooooo confused when I notice Lupe didn't know the lyrics!
I heard he grew up on "gangster rap" before then but I always thought his style was more like A Tribe Called Quest and others like De La Soul anyways!! Very much more alike.
Like Angie said, "that's very surprising by the way"
That taught me more reasons why not to assume. You live & you learn. lol
im so surprised that lupe didnt grow up on tribe. Like when i listen to his songs i can swear that his stlyle is derived from them. weird
Best rapper alive is all a matter of opinion. Anybody can claim or get that title, but not everyone will agree. I personally think Lupe is most def one of them.
Good interview. It's true about tha Red dye too. It's bug juice, lol.
Bad interview. This interrupting interview style is WACK AS HELL....👎
Damn throwback
Lupe is a lyrical genius.
the thing is, to get them yellow m&m's, they still have to go through all the bags wghich have red ones, meaning the insects stilll get crushed, but i think its more cos they're unclean than for the animals
But I'll give u a rhyme Lupe said "Ya'll cats iz far from tha hood like limousine trunks"
Here some lines with real substance not selling poison and killing your own people
"since it became a lucrative profession there's misconception that a movement in any direction is progression, even tho the potency of it lessens, big money industries writing checks to suppress the question"
just can't get doper than lupe. da dude flies high man
yes he is
"Knowledge is power, ignorance is bliss"
"nah nah, thats why im CHOKIN YOU! SAY SUMTHIN! YEA! BACK UP! BACK UP!"
lol we hewas like stop stop shutting angie up
lupe has a blackberry cuz i have that same ringer lol
yea she can most def
And by tha way at tha end when he says people think he's still whack he's laughin at u
Okay fine I respect that...U listened 2 it and its your opinion. Just stop comin on here and talkin trash okay? Lets put it all behind us
OMG!! Bugs in my m&m's?! Totally gross!!! But don't we swallow 3 spiders a yr while sleeping? Lupe has enlightened me on the current state of candy. lol
What r u listenin to??? "Im fly like a maggot grown up" Thats definitely new
niggas can say what dey want i personaly dont realy knock lupe but u gota respect his shit ya heard dude can spit
I got u...my bad about tha earlier comments
bliss
yeah i went to this camp with a lot of vegans and they don't eat unnaturaly red things. But hey I don'tt really like bugs anyway
Htu, I thought they meant whacked as in crazy. That's why they were like "yeah I wonder why." Which I guess your point still stands but my question is what do they use on the yellow m's? :*)
Lupe ready to beat the shit outta somebody lmao I believe he can lol
yo Lupe is mad funni...i cant believe people still think Lupe is wack...dats crazii..n also dat dey crush up insects to make red coloring...so nasty
So what do they do with the green and yellow M&Ms!!!!!??
My point is both Hitler and Manson were geniuses in their own way. Manson even had a high IQ, people just refuse to believe it.
That's true tho, I'm from Chicago & All of us was bumping Spice 1 in the Chi. Every Chi town nigga fucks with Spice 1
Nah, simply because he's talented. Point blank period.
you didnt respect him before?
he deserves more respect than any rapper in the world today, actually more respect than any rapper ever.
take that son !!!! AHHA lmao
yoh im just curious in what records you spin. Like im not even comin at chu like dat, im just wonderin?
at 9:10, when he says " Knowledge is Power" He says "ignorance is ______" does anyone know what he says??
Lol damn, 13 years late but he says "ignorance is bliss"
cool
where the roses are red
m&m's are yellow
haha
But he didn't, why does a young MC have to know A Tribe Called Quest because he's conscienous rapper? Real talk, Lupe
ok, my bad, i gotcha now.
lupe the best rapper alive behind jay-z period anyone that doesnt agree doesnt know hip hop listen to the homies music i bet you's a wayne lover, type of nigga that like gucci none rapping ass
this proves why he is the greatest rapper out now
no offense to wayne
but you cant drop knowledge with m&ms
stick to the duffle bags
he has a good point, i dont think because he's a rapper he should know that song, and when i say know that song I mean know all the lyrics, but, however he should know that song. At least be familar with it, whitch he is.
amen
How does that make him a fake, just because he didnt listen to them dosent mean he's a fake, and how many conscious rappers u know that sells over a million records?....., Lupe just said that Mc Hammer was more POPULAR then ATCQ, that's like me saying Lil Wayne is more popular then Cannibus but not better.
Yo you shouldn't call somebody wack jus because you don't understand or can't relate to what they're talking about .... it's a matter of taste, dude.
REAL HIP HOP =)
what about other colors?
lmao "zzbazzbazzbazzz"
lol its lil wayne
wayne can rap like he nice lupe and wayne are both very very very different i don't think lil wayne go tooo hard with the guns and drugs but his lyrics and how he put dem goes hard
Listen... 'Dumb It Down'... I dont see how u can hate on that record... it speaks to both sides... its tellin u, WHY ure gonna hate. WHY u SHOULDNT hate.. Its a bigger picture, u might have to back away from tha close-ups and really pay attention to detail...
LOL You kidding me right
OOOOOH one minus im so upset LMAO!
SAY REAL HIP HOP!
@Mystikal22693 Yes, I guess he realized he wasn't putting out a good message?
Dude change the Z to G
Lupe>>>>TRibe.
kool, dont get me wrong Lupe is cool but he kinda disrepect the legends Tribe called Quest. I have to defend Tribe.
I don't know what you and bloodsport are arguing about.But really why would you diss somebody like Canibus who works hard to achieve his art.Whether you like him or not, you could at least respect the work he puts in.Songs like Poet Laureate 2,Cenior Studies, AIDS shows ambition.Also Lupe rhyme structure really isn't complex.Even so complex rhymes dont make you good, it only makes things sound better.Canibus is the better lyricist.Nas is a better lyricists,as is Eminem,K-rino,and several others.
REAL HIP-HOP LOL
I would never hit a woman...much respect. ;)
Exactly he used the backpack, skateboard, conscious rapper as a gimmick to sell records. What is so hard to understand? ANy hip hop fan that don't know who is Tribe Called Quest is fake.
I listen to Lupe's 1sat album and it wasn't all that. He didn't have any songs that stand out maybe to me his flow is weak. Canibus last album came out last year and it is a classic. No fastforwarding any songs. I can listen to it straight. Canibus now have a song called George Bush push the button. Classic song. Much better than Superstarrrrrrrr
stop,stop,stop lol
Droppin knowledge on yall asses with the m&m's,lol.
Dude's ill.
But he is ill. Its not an opinion, its a fact.
He didnt diss tribe called quest he said he didnt listen 2 them. Everybody got they own opinion on who's nice and who's not. Canibus was nice but he done now (He got any albums out recently no) How tha hell lupe aint nice and he still doin his thing I hav no idea what u thinkin. And tha only poison he spits iz tha shit that kills these whack ass rappers like plies and yung berg. Listen 2 his album then come back and see me. Excuse me "US!"
Do I hav 2 talk 2 u like youre a child? Canibus iz done...he's nice but he's done and u sound so heartbroken over it like youre 9 years old and u just found out santa doesnt exist LOL! But I constantly run into people like u who didnt like lupe, listened 2 him and changed they mind. And if they still didnt like him they admitted he was nice
Talkin about canibus. Yeah he was nice but Lupe iz now so quit sleepin on him
His gimmick is pretending to be conscious rapper. I'm into filmmaking. When I was 8 years old I knew who Boris Karloff, Bela Logusi and Lon Chaney were. Those cats acted in movies before I was even born. Why Lupe never listen to Tribe Called Quest before? I listen to Spice One before and I'm from New York. Brooklyn. I even bought MC Eiht, SPice One's album. I been buying West Coast, Southern rap before the dick riding.
Subtract Weezy and you're good (no hate Weezy is pretty decent just really not a lyricist)
really lupe, no quest.. fuck me that has gotta be the height of irony... i usualy listen to lupe aster i get sick of tip
ummmmmm, were the base of it all...yall need to grow up and learn the history. yea its all over but the base is ny, thats home. its like black history is more than just the civil rights movement, you gotta go all the way back to Africa when the Africans were chilling in Africa before slavery. You always gotta go back home and the problem is a lot of yall listening to Hiphop dont do the research. I mean i dont know every song from the beginning of hiphop but im trying...yall not even trying...
@javp95 hes got multiple black belts lmao
Can Lupe fuck with Canibus Hell No!!!
Canibus "I wright the song,rhymes accelerate through the psychlotron and now microns, turn the mic on,regurgitate the windpipe bomb"
Now give me a hotter line from Lupe. I'm waiting.
Bloodsport1 lol anything on mural would destroy those bars
Foh. Lupe!
Canibus will tear Lupe apart easily.
Nah
Lupe is not in the same league as Nas. Lupe is nothing special
If he dont listen to Tribe called Quest why the hell he said he rock with Q -Tip? Just because they're on the same label?!!!Lupe is a fake. Lupe's style skateboard, backpack is just a gimmick. The song he have out now Dumb it Down is just a gimmick.
Foh
@joecandito ur crazy
No u r
thats not cute.
Lupe is nice, but in my opinion at this point he is slightly overrated.Only because Im strong on lyrical content, as is thats what I really pay attention to.