Still listening to The Cool, the whole concept of that album was years ahead of it's time... Lupe is a certified goat for me, he has a seat at the head table with the legends dead or alive
@DazeOfNoahSure bro. Basically, the story is an expansion of the character "The Cool" from the song of the same name on his first album, food and liquor.. (another classic) The full name of this character is "Michael Young History", read aloud to be "My-Cool Young History". The album introduces two new characters, The Streets (a female) meant to be the personification of the street life. Also, The Game (a male) meant to represent the "game", basically life as a hustler/drug dealer/pimp. The album art is meant to represent these three people. The top is a skeletal right hand, which represents how The Cool has rotted away the only thing "right" about him, his right hand. The skull with smoke is supposed to be the Game, and the locket is meant to represent the Streets. The story follows "Michael Young History" and his eventually downfall into street life and death. And the song "The Cool" from F&L picks up after his death. 6-7 songs on THE COOL album details Micheal young historee ( my cool young history) and it talks about his struggle with the lure of street life , trying to resist the temptation but getting lost in the game. It's done in an abstract way with the characters mentioned above so it plays out like a story. It's an exceptional piece of work by a GOAT
@@dimezanime88 I think its him playing with the idea of needing a ghostwriter, kind of a hidden jab. Lupe does not need a ghostwriter, except maybe for hooks/chorus (which is another interpretation)
Saw him in Denver in 2019 and got his DJ to sign my snap-back after the show. Before we met my ex never appreciated rap, and I spent months educating him about it. He surprised me with tickets to see Lupe, and by the end of the show, he was absolutely addicted to the artistry, and truly learned to appreciate the fact that rap is, without any comparison, the most brilliant form of artistic storytelling in modern culture. Lupe is a living legend and one of America's greatest ever writers.
This is going to be one of the greatest albums in the last five to ten years. Love this first single. Im feeling some Cool vibes. Thank you Lupe 🙏 much love from the ✌☝🖐
Yo, imagine just listening to whatever in thebackground... And you one of the first in the world to hear some straight heat. Im like" wait.. hold up this sound like Lupe... wait this beat sound tuff... hmm hold up is this lupe? what year this drop... he always got songs floating around you aint never heard... Wait.. Mins ago?"
Yeah, a while ago on Twitter he was talking about working on it only spent like a week making the album or something cant remember the exact timeline but it was really short.
@@asharp12 I don't think he wrote it at all. I could be mistaken but I thought part of the challenge he gave himself was that it was off the top. He's mentioned a few times around the recording of this that he doesn't actually write anymore.
Lupe always with that 🔥 Like theres Lu's stuff and then there is the rest of the industry. Nobody compares. You are in a league of your own Lupe. Thank you for all you have given us, and all you continue to give.
This track is sick. So many clues to what we're in store for. I noticed some lyrics similar to songs from The Cool and I know Lupe always has a layer in his albums about his career. 'Sty's to the flys from all kinds of demise(DMIZ)' Im pretty sure that's a double about how elites can't see the problems of the working class. And how his work is underappreciated by mainstream hip hop artists and the industry as a whole.
Lupe is most certainly one of the Jedi's studied his writing for years I hear battle rappers do what he has done in their battles what he has done in songs 🎵 👏 Mojo-Synthensis...jersey 🎤
i have been a Lupe stand now for 10 years, words i never said open my eyes. I had the cool on my Ipod touch, but i didnt understood his music. I remember like in 2009 it skipped to gogo gadget and i was like meeeh, but in 2011 when words never said came out, it just open my mind for lupe. I went back to his 1 and 2 album and i just felt it was a dream. Streets on fire, go to sleep, beamin, the cool, shining down - i was in heaven. Also i remember like 5 years after i heard go to sleep, i still found out new metaphores - that line with mink is dragon on the floor, fire in my wind pibe
@@jannickpedersen546 @Jannick Pedersen that's what's up! It's great to hear that you get so much enjoyment from such an awesome artist. Lupe provides such an unique listening experience. It is very enlightening and will satisfy those who like new knowledge.
I've been waiting for years for Lupe to drop something. In my opinion he's one of the best of all-time. Food And Liquor, The Cool, Food And Liquor 2 were class albums. Give this man the love and respect he deserves 😤.
Bro lupe you the best man. Makes my whole day when you upload. I just wanna say thanks for all the great music you’ve made, and also for you as a person. Keep it up brother, Christ be with you!
Can't wait to see where this song lands on the album, Lupe rapping like a robot, doing what he does best, I was worried when I read the album titled, wasn't too sure if it was gonna be like Drogas Light, but I have a strong feeling it will be up there with T&Y or Drogas Wave.
He was performing in a small club in Houston on a Thursday and me and my girl at the time drove all the way from Austin to see him. Met his brother Chilly outside the club on accident and he looks exactly like him. Didn’t get back home until 2am and still went to work the next day.
I’m so ready for this album. Wasnt the most pleased with Kendrick’s album but I’m hoping this album is the music fill I need this year. Melt My Eyez See Your Future is my favorite album this year so far.
I understand how you could feel like that about Kendrick.... But I gotta ask you to listen to it once more, without skips, on your commute. It's a slow cook, like Aquemini when it dropped.
@@drehardin I almost thought you were bugging. But that's exactly how Aquemini was; especially when people either wanted another ATLiens or SouthernPlayalistic But Lus that MF, so I know my shit hasn't come out yet
Yo I’m not the biggest kdot fan but he just dropped the album of the year so far. Hoping Lupe’s shit doesn’t disappoint when it drops. Lupe’s one of my favorite artists
The fact he recorded this album in about 72 hrs is going to be bananas. I'm assuming arsists energy may eb and flow months or years in making an album. But in such a short amount of time I'm betting his was up high cause of the challenge to do it 24hrs. My ears aren't ready.
In the future, as is now, someone will hear this and not know how this Lupe style of rapping came to be. But I'm hoping alot of people hear this and begin to incorporate these "nyms" into art again. I'm happy that it's alive a day Lupe knows where to find it. Thank you Lupe. As long as it's structured like this. Pattern regcognise, Code translate.
Give this man his propers...flowers and a crown for being one of the most illin'est, most cerebral, most slept on lyricists of all time, and consistently so...I'm older than Lu and I remember his debut...first take; Kid got crazy pen game! Been deep diving ever since.💐🤴🏾
Fr i hate hes underrated he should be up there with Kendrick and Cole bro fr fr, when i listen to early cole i get an influence and mimicking vibe and i love cole
This is why Lupe is ❤️ by his fans because Lupe Lyrical ability goes to levels that u can't compare, He so ahead of his time and if u don't know about this lyrical tyrant I suggest u start from Food&Liquor or before that and then to The Cool, Lasers, Food &Liquor 2 Testuo&Youth, Drogas Waves, Lights and other Albums, I appreciate this guy so much Thank U Lupe 💯🔥🎤
Still listening to The Cool, the whole concept of that album was years ahead of it's time... Lupe is a certified goat for me, he has a seat at the head table with the legends dead or alive
@DazeOfNoahSure bro. Basically, the story is an expansion of the character "The Cool" from the song of the same name on his first album, food and liquor.. (another classic) The full name of this character is "Michael Young History", read aloud to be "My-Cool Young History". The album introduces two new characters, The Streets (a female) meant to be the personification of the street life. Also, The Game (a male) meant to represent the "game", basically life as a hustler/drug dealer/pimp.
The album art is meant to represent these three people. The top is a skeletal right hand, which represents how The Cool has rotted away the only thing "right" about him, his right hand. The skull with smoke is supposed to be the Game, and the locket is meant to represent the Streets.
The story follows "Michael Young History" and his eventually downfall into street life and death. And the song "The Cool" from F&L picks up after his death. 6-7 songs on THE COOL album details Micheal young historee ( my cool young history) and it talks about his struggle with the lure of street life , trying to resist the temptation but getting lost in the game. It's done in an abstract way with the characters mentioned above so it plays out like a story. It's an exceptional piece of work by a GOAT
Streets Are on Fire. Lupe the profit
@@lastonewon my God, you explained the concept in only 3 paragraphs and in a clear and intelligible fashion? Damn, are you a writer?
@@ImInYourBrains its copy pasted from reddit, nonetheless thanks for bringing out the explanation here @leon
@@bluecat5655 ah...still, it's the most concise and to the point explanation I've seen.
Everybody share this shit let's make sure Lupe win.
Lupe won along time ago. People who really fuck with Lupes music know he’s the truth.
@@fvckinfool101 word
Facts
Correct
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That 2nd verse is bananas!!! Talking about himself as his own ghost writer and how he wants credits on the album...dude is the best.. fight me..
Wow! Didn’t realize that
Yo, he mentions the same thing in “piece Of paper/cup of Jaysus”.
Kendrick > Lupe
@@2pacshakur282 shut up
@ RaisinBig DaddyKane: Just caught that. And the ghost was gangsta like fcuk a lawyer. Lupe is the illest.
Lupe always delivers… still listening to Drogas Waves. 💥💥💥
Deliver?.... Deliver?.... Deliver?
daily bruh , listen daily
Wav files got played today ..that song is on another level.
🤯🔥🔥
Last night I was too
I’d like to personally thank Royce for awakening the beast and being a sacrifice for this classic about to drop 🙏🏾
Drill music in Zion is a soon to be classic 🙏🏽
Yeah I've played it like 4 times already. Tryna catch a line and read between them
Word
Is that the next project?
@@drehardin yeah and it's dropping at the end of june
Another one
The flow and rhymes from Lupe are always top tier 🔥 this song was wavy
This mans be changing flows its crazy
Damn right.
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"I don't even know who wrote those, maybe my ghost knows but we both cold" Sheesh 🥶
Yeah, but the rest after that, is he saying that he indeed had a ghostwriter at some point??
@@dimezanime88 I think its him playing with the idea of needing a ghostwriter, kind of a hidden jab. Lupe does not need a ghostwriter, except maybe for hooks/chorus (which is another interpretation)
Flames… as usual
@@dimezanime88 He ghostwrote for Kanye..not saying he doesnt have a ghostwriter.
@@dimezanime88 I think he's saying he's his own ghostwriter, hence y he wants rights to all of his intellectual property and doesn't need a lawyer
"...little dumb street shit don't apply to the plug" FACTS! 🔥🔥
Straight facts 😤😤😤😤😤😤🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌 run ya mouth Lupe
Omg so hard
My most favorite rapper of all time 🔥🔥
Saw him in Denver in 2019 and got his DJ to sign my snap-back after the show.
Before we met my ex never appreciated rap, and I spent months educating him about it.
He surprised me with tickets to see Lupe, and by the end of the show, he was absolutely addicted to the artistry, and truly learned to appreciate the fact that rap is, without any comparison, the most brilliant form of artistic storytelling in modern culture.
Lupe is a living legend and one of America's greatest ever writers.
I was locked in back in 2017 when he performed Mural 100% no mess ups and no water breaks
rap is modern day poetry
He write raps like how christopher nolan writes movies 🤯
This is going to be one of the greatest albums in the last five to ten years. Love this first single. Im feeling some Cool vibes. Thank you Lupe 🙏 much love from the ✌☝🖐
Honestly his best 1st single since Superstar off The Cool imo.
Lupe’s skill level is UNMATCHED!!! and this was easy for him you can tell!!! Loved hearing from Nayirah also, can’t wait to hear her new raps!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I'm hoping there is more of her on the album. Pure vibes and talent.
What's an infrared dot to a whole dot gov? That's exactly why Lupe will always be in my top 3 forever. Someone put this song in a movie immediately.
I don't get it
@@artstudent7150 people brag about how they have guns, but your guns means nothing against the government when they come for you.
@@dvdndsWill cool man thanks
Thought it was about Push but Watevs
100%. Lupe has too many lines that simply can't be denied.
This album is going to be 🔥. This man is one of the best rappers ever
This song is on straight repeat!!
Facts
Listened to it, called my brother, hunt up, been repeating it since
No cap
Ey-aw Ey-aw Ey-aw Ey-aw
It's criminal that this man doesn't get as much credit for how amazing he is as an artist
2022 and Lupe Fiasco is still the BEST RAPPER ALIVE!
Yo, imagine just listening to whatever in thebackground... And you one of the first in the world to hear some straight heat.
Im like" wait.. hold up this sound like Lupe... wait this beat sound tuff... hmm hold up is this lupe? what year this drop... he always got songs floating around you aint never heard... Wait.. Mins ago?"
NEED. THE. ALBUM. ASAP.
What's crazy is Lupe writes all this stuff sober...no drugs no alcohol, damn!
You NEED to be sober to write these type of lyrics
You say that like it’s impossible to be creative without drugs and alcohol
@@GregTVGaming that's not what he's implying
Lupe destroyed this! Carrera Lu, welcome back. You've been missed.
Blackstar announces a new album, Kendrick drops an all time classic, and now Lupe's releasing one.
Finally good things to look forward to!
You ain't lying
Joey Badass and Black Thought album coming too
@@jordankoehler37522022 Is the year for lyricism
Ab Soul coming too
Lmao Kendrick album was aight. Not a classic.
Best ever to come out of Chicago
Common, Kanye, Chance, Vic Mensa... CHICAGO really has some heavyweights up there 💯
Twista too
@@MattyOkay nigga did you just called Vic Mensa and Chance "Heavyweights" ? 😂😂😂
@@MattyOkay they cant see Lupe Lyrically... Lupe the goat lyricist
I just want to say your music has played such a huge role in my life and is part of how I was raised. You make absolute masterpieces
I wish every Lupe song had a lyric video like this.
U can tell Lupe wasn't even trying with this one but it's still better lyrically than most others these days
Is that why he says it’s a sport ?
Yeah, a while ago on Twitter he was talking about working on it only spent like a week making the album or something cant remember the exact timeline but it was really short.
@@cobyhanks29 Wrote and recorded the album in 3 days. Dude's an animal.
@@asharp12 I don't think he wrote it at all. I could be mistaken but I thought part of the challenge he gave himself was that it was off the top. He's mentioned a few times around the recording of this that he doesn't actually write anymore.
I was making the scrunch bounce face throughout the whole song 😂😂
Lupe always with that 🔥
Like theres Lu's stuff and then there is the rest of the industry.
Nobody compares. You are in a league of your own Lupe. Thank you for all you have given us, and all you continue to give.
This nice....like nice nice...
Lupe so slept on!
Don't mention Eminem to me.. This is the Greatest rapper breathing.. And go listen to Kneelin on Needles..IF you never heard it
Thank you!
He runs circles around Eminem lol
Y'all must be stupid high
I got tired of trying to tell people. Love Em too, but it's never been close.
Agreed 👍🏿
Proper tune 👌🏾
If Lupe isn’t in your top 10, you buggin. 🔥
Faxxx
THE BEST CONCEPT RAPPER.
Salute from Sofia, Bulgaria, brehs!
This is Lupe just shadow boxing. these other rappers can't reach this level.
Flows are immaculate 🔥
Feeling this, great to hear an album is on the way! One of the best to ever do it.
Soundtrakk get ‘em!
This track is sick. So many clues to what we're in store for. I noticed some lyrics similar to songs from The Cool and I know Lupe always has a layer in his albums about his career. 'Sty's to the flys from all kinds of demise(DMIZ)'
Im pretty sure that's a double about how elites can't see the problems of the working class. And how his work is underappreciated by mainstream hip hop artists and the industry as a whole.
This man's catalog is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Bangin ass beats, catchy hook, and bars that you gotta rewind. Completion!!
Straight 🔥 🔥!!
Lupe is most certainly one of the Jedi's studied his writing for years I hear battle rappers do what he has done in their battles what he has done in songs 🎵 👏 Mojo-Synthensis...jersey 🎤
OG LUPE FIASCO#1
I'm stuck in heavy Philly traffic so I said. Light a L and put on Autoboto...needless to say I'm vibing🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Another Master’s piece! Does this samurai ever miss? Slay us 🗡
The GOAT! I've been listening for 15 yrs. Gonna stream the hell out of the album and buy it!
i have been a Lupe stand now for 10 years, words i never said open my eyes. I had the cool on my Ipod touch, but i didnt understood his music. I remember like in 2009 it skipped to gogo gadget and i was like meeeh, but in 2011 when words never said came out, it just open my mind for lupe. I went back to his 1 and 2 album and i just felt it was a dream. Streets on fire, go to sleep, beamin, the cool, shining down - i was in heaven. Also i remember like 5 years after i heard go to sleep, i still found out new metaphores - that line with mink is dragon on the floor, fire in my wind pibe
@@jannickpedersen546 @Jannick Pedersen that's what's up! It's great to hear that you get so much enjoyment from such an awesome artist. Lupe provides such an unique listening experience. It is very enlightening and will satisfy those who like new knowledge.
Drill Music in Zion finna be album of the decade 🔥
This man is inspired. 🙌🏾
I've been waiting for years for Lupe to drop something. In my opinion he's one of the best of all-time. Food And Liquor, The Cool, Food And Liquor 2 were class albums. Give this man the love and respect he deserves 😤.
Tetsuo & Youth may not have been mainstream, but it was a masterpiece as well!
F&L, The Cool, T&Y, Drogas Waves are classics to me
Carrera Lu is baaaacccckkk!! 🔥🔥🔥
remember he did this entire album in 3 day whew🤯
Bro lupe you the best man. Makes my whole day when you upload. I just wanna say thanks for all the great music you’ve made, and also for you as a person. Keep it up brother, Christ be with you!
Lupe Fiasco is the cool💯
Still listening to tetsuo youth!
🤯🤯🤯 My favorite as well. Literally a Cypher that you got to try to decode.
Lupe one of the greatest ever give him his flowers 🔥
Who singing at the end? The song is a beast!!
This is FLAAAMESS!!!
🔥Lupe’s music ALWAYS has a message; if you miss it’s ok just play it back til you do😅🐐ish
This is hard 🔥💯
"Nigga said head shots like a helmet with a Go Pro..." 😂 😂 😂 😂... It's just so easy for Lupe
This song has grown on me.
I Get Signals From The Source!!! Yeahhhh!!!
My head 😫 😩 😪 I ❤ 😍 💖 ❣ 💕 💘 ❤ love the song 🎵 can't stop watching
Can't wait to see where this song lands on the album, Lupe rapping like a robot, doing what he does best, I was worried when I read the album titled, wasn't too sure if it was gonna be like Drogas Light, but I have a strong feeling it will be up there with T&Y or Drogas Wave.
Can't tell you how much I appreciate that Golgo 13 line 🔥🔥🔥
Wow got this on repeat 🔥
Lupe killed that beat
Lupe is top 5. Idc wat anybody say
Nō is brain in Japanese-"head shots brains in a pan thats a no no
might not get it but it's dope though"
yes
That's what you call one of Lupe's patented triple entendres. Also, "that's a no know/no"
My guy said, “in order to get this, you have to either speak Japanese or have Japanese friends. Go get knowledge. (More brains)” 🤯
lmfao so criminally underrated. god bless you Lupe, real ones are still listening.
He was performing in a small club in Houston on a Thursday and me and my girl at the time drove all the way from Austin to see him. Met his brother Chilly outside the club on accident and he looks exactly like him. Didn’t get back home until 2am and still went to work the next day.
Lupe da GOAT!
Lupe stay in his bag 🔥🔥🔥
I wanna hear a LUPE & BLACK THOUGHT collaboration.
I’m so ready for this album. Wasnt the most pleased with Kendrick’s album but I’m hoping this album is the music fill I need this year. Melt My Eyez See Your Future is my favorite album this year so far.
Melt My Eyez & Ramona Park Broke My Heart are my favorites so far and It's Almost Dry
Kendricks album was fire
I understand how you could feel like that about Kendrick.... But I gotta ask you to listen to it once more, without skips, on your commute. It's a slow cook, like Aquemini when it dropped.
@@drehardin I almost thought you were bugging.
But that's exactly how Aquemini was; especially when people either wanted another ATLiens or SouthernPlayalistic
But Lus that MF, so I know my shit hasn't come out yet
Yo I’m not the biggest kdot fan but he just dropped the album of the year so far. Hoping Lupe’s shit doesn’t disappoint when it drops. Lupe’s one of my favorite artists
Damn Lupe snapped, the boy is still in shape
Can't wait for DMIZ , June can't come soon enough
What's DMIZ?
@@GeneralGlockasiah drill music in zion is the new album. june 24th release date
@@ambreannbrown7487 ahhh nice album title. Even more interested now.
The woman at the end is my favorite part.
The fact he recorded this album in about 72 hrs is going to be bananas. I'm assuming arsists energy may eb and flow months or years in making an album. But in such a short amount of time I'm betting his was up high cause of the challenge to do it 24hrs. My ears aren't ready.
Lupe Fiasco Greatest Give him his flowers now 🎁 Thanks Prince 👑
In the future, as is now, someone will hear this and not know how this Lupe style of rapping came to be. But I'm hoping alot of people hear this and begin to incorporate these "nyms" into art again. I'm happy that it's alive a day Lupe knows where to find it.
Thank you Lupe. As long as it's structured like this. Pattern regcognise, Code translate.
DRILL MUSIC IN ZION is def my fav album of 2022. I've been listening to it over and over and over and it's just pure stuff.
Give this man his propers...flowers and a crown for being one of the most illin'est, most cerebral, most slept on lyricists of all time, and consistently so...I'm older than Lu and I remember his debut...first take; Kid got crazy pen game! Been deep diving ever since.💐🤴🏾
Fr i hate hes underrated he should be up there with Kendrick and Cole bro fr fr, when i listen to early cole i get an influence and mimicking vibe and i love cole
This is hard.
My man said "headshot, brains... in a pan, so that's a no no/know...”
Golgo 13 line was 🔥🔥🔥
My heart jumps everytime i see new video on this channel because i know this guy is a God of wordplay
This is why Lupe is ❤️ by his fans because Lupe Lyrical ability goes to levels that u can't compare, He so ahead of his time and if u don't know about this lyrical tyrant I suggest u start from Food&Liquor or before that and then to The Cool, Lasers, Food &Liquor 2 Testuo&Youth, Drogas Waves, Lights and other Albums, I appreciate this guy so much Thank U Lupe 💯🔥🎤
Whole song heat, but the ending is loveLY!!!!!!
League of his own. Lyrically I can only see Ab Soul , Kendrick and Earl coming close, but Lupe is just a special work of art.
Lupe Just delivers good product
pffffffffffff I like that Lupe. "I defend myself in court" is a real flex.
The more I listen the better it gets!
Fire... Salute Golgo 13!
I’m happy Apple Music added the auto lyrics and not the scroll down lyric
This is such a complete song. Can't tell you how many times I've looped this. Damn. Well done, Lupe.
God damn this is sick 👌👌
Album of the Year and I know 2022 not over yet
Lupe so futuristic he throw a football straight up it comes down 3 months later.
FACTS😂😂😂‼️
Class 💯