[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
eh didnt like it so much[/quote]
We don’t like you very much!
Because that was on Food and Liquor?
You can probably believe Lupe. He didn’t say he was retiring, just that LupEND was going to be HIS last album. He already is in a group with Kanye West and Pharrell Williams. He’ll probably do a song here and there with other people.
[quote]Eielson wrote:
LiveFromThe781 wrote:
eh didnt like it so much
We don’t like you very much!
also why wasnt “the cool” on there like that track about the guy who comes back from the dead.
Because that was on Food and Liquor?
he says hes retiriing after his next album but thats gotta be crazy talk.
You can probably believe Lupe. He didn’t say he was retiring, just that LupEND was going to be HIS last album. He already is in a group with Kanye West and Pharrell Williams. He’ll probably do a song here and there with other people.[/quote]
He actually has a does continue The Cool saga from his Food and Liquor Album:
Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool expands on the story Lupe told on the track, “The Cool”, from his debut album. Fiasco introduces the characters the Streets and the Game.[3] The album tells the story of the little boy from “He Say, She Say” who grew up without a father, and the people that step in to raise him are the Streets and the Game.[4] Speaking on the concept Lupe said:
I expand on the story, I introduce two other characters, the Game and the Streets. The Streets is a female. She’s like the action personification of the streets, the street life, the call of the streets. The Game is the same way.
The Game is the personification of the game. The pimp’s game, the hustler’s game, the con man’s game, whatever. Then they’ve got supernatural characteristics. Like the Cool, his right hand is rotted away. The only thing that rotted away was his right hand.
It represents the rotting away of his righteousness, of his good. And the Streets and the Cool kind of have a love affair going on. So she’s represented by this locket. And the locket has a key and it’s on fire. And as a gift to the Cool on his rise to fame, she gave him the key.
And the key represents the key to the Streets. So she wears a locket around her neck at all times. And the way the story goes, she has given that key to tons of people throughout time. Al Capone, Alexander the Great, whatever. She’s giving them the key to the Streets. Fame and fortune �?? but also the prices.
The Game, he’s represented by a stripped-down skull, a skull with dice in his eyes and smoke coming out of his mouth. The billowing smoke is actually crack smoke. It’s not a full concept album; it’s more spread over like five [tracks], really abstractly.
On the song “The Coolest” and “Streets on Fire” you can hear the continuation of the story. In the beginning of “The Coolest” you can hear The Cool’s tomb opening up.
If Livefromthe781 really listened to Lupe like he claims to he would know this already.
[quote]Eielson wrote:
LiveFromThe781 wrote:
eh didnt like it so much
We don’t like you very much!
also why wasnt “the cool” on there like that track about the guy who comes back from the dead.
Because that was on Food and Liquor?
he says hes retiriing after his next album but thats gotta be crazy talk.
You can probably believe Lupe. He didn’t say he was retiring, just that LupEND was going to be HIS last album. He already is in a group with Kanye West and Pharrell Williams. He’ll probably do a song here and there with other people.[/quote]
livefromthe781 cant comprehend metaphors unless its about sizzurp, hell even in the superstar video clip they use the cool character in the video, next time look at his hands if you havent noticed it yet and you’ll see a skeleton hand, there are other various hints throughout the video…
i actually prefer the cool to food and liquor, both albums are incredibly solid i just prefer the majority of the production on the cool, also hip hop saved my life was the song of the year
Pootietang, I really listened to the album, and I totally didn’t get a lot of what you just wrote.
It makes sense, and the next time I listen to it, I’ll be like ‘uh HUH!’, but to expect anyone to get that without reading wikipedia is… well, perhaps expecting a little much.
Maybe I’m just retarded though.
Maybe also I don’t listen to music critically.