View Full Version : listened to Food and Liquor for the 1st time a week ago
ThaKnowledge
08-05-07, 04:42 AM
My homie been tryin to put me up on this album for a long while now...but I'm the type of person who doesn't like to have anything forcefed to me or thrown in my face....I have to naturally gravitate towards it.
Listened to it....must say...I was amazed.
Lupe's a complete MC. Diverse content & substance (like American Terrorist dealing with how blacks are done wrong in this country, He Say She Say talking about abset fathers, Hurt Me Soul dealing with his introduction and relationship with Hip Hop, Daydreaming, Sunshine, etc)
great wordplay and creative punchlines.....
He used his mouth as a shovel to try and hollow it
and when he couldn't dirt spit... swallowed it
Working like a.. hmm.. "reverse archaeologist"
Except.. his buried treasure was sunshine
No honor amongst fellows
It's as hard as tryin to sit with a blind man and describe yellow
And so it seems that I'm, sewin jeans
And, 1st and 15 is just a sewin machine
So I, cut the pattern and I, sew in seams
And, buttonin this hustlin then publically I'm Buddy Lee
There's no bustin them and cuffin them is like
usherin in the regime, they want me to make Prince pants
But I withstand, I ain't gotten into that
A little "big" in the waist, 2-pocket on the back
The production was amazing. When I heard Kanye only had one beat on it I was thinkin "ah man, it's gonna be lacking". But the beats was mostly dope. alot of them had that Kanye/J-Dilla type production style to them. Lupe has some good producers on his label. beats like Daydreamin, Pressure, The Emperor's Soundtrack, Hurt Me Soul,.....and of course "The Cool" from Mr. West himself.......the beats were crazy.
This is the best album I have heard in a long while. Made an instant Lupe fan. Honestly....10 years from now, we will be mentioning this album in the same breath as albums like Illmatic, Reasonable Doubt, Liquid Swordz.....etc. Album's a classic....and that's not a word I just throw around.
new bile
08-05-07, 04:50 AM
got to check the leaked version too
TheCanadian-Kid
08-05-07, 02:35 PM
his punchlines are very creative... they really make you think
he is honestly one of the most underrated in hiphop right now
GToddyT5
08-05-07, 03:19 PM
American Terrorist was not about how Blacks were done wrong in this country. That was a bit of it, try listening to the track a few more times. It's about a view of the Americans from the outside. It's essentially about American greed in general.
HIP HOP MUSIC
08-05-07, 04:42 PM
Hurt Me Soul is about all the problems of the world rolled up into 3 classic verses
GToddyT5
08-05-07, 07:04 PM
I don't know what you dudes are listening to. You are remembering a single verse or few lines and mistakenly thinking that applies to the whole track. The last verse of Hurt Me Soul applies to "all the world's ills". Listen to the first one, it has nothing to do with that. It's about him personally and his hip-hop influences. I'd argue that that track has more to do with him as an artist than the problems of the world.
Either way, album is disgusting and Lupe doesn't get enough credit. A lot of people can't digest good music.
ThaKnowledge
08-06-07, 12:51 AM
^yeah yeah yeah **** all of that.
back on topic....album's a future classic.
TheDreamShatterer
08-06-07, 01:39 AM
^yeah yeah yeah **** all of that.
back on topic....album's a future classic.
Wait 'til you hear the leaked version. it's like :ohmy:
He's a very complete artist spittin some deep sh""t.
storyteller
08-06-07, 09:06 PM
Yep, it's an incredible album. American Terrorist is about just that, out govt. using terrorist tactics. Hurt Me Soul starts small and expands. I still don't understand the Instrumental though.
kennykenken
08-06-07, 11:11 PM
^i think the box refers to TV or radio etc. hes talking about the media and how it affects to ppl esp. to the young audiences.
storyteller
08-06-07, 11:21 PM
That's kind of the feeling that I got, but not so much media as like the famous people and ****...but what's good with the doctor's and the instrumental?
kennykenken
08-06-07, 11:33 PM
^maybe the doctors are the teachers or parents or guardians or whoever that wants the kid to be in the right path and the instrumental is his voice which means that hes only stating what the media is stating and not by his thoughts... do you get what i mean?
KayCeeGFNF
08-07-07, 12:08 PM
Fnl=classic!!!!!!
thegreatest
08-07-07, 02:51 PM
Hm.. The lyrics on that album go for "creative" to "reaching too far" for me, guess I'm not that easily impressed. A lot of time, I get the feeling dude is just sitting there with a thesaurus, looking for words that rhyme just to make himself sound more complex than he really is. TBH I don't think dude was thinking as hard when he was penning these songs as some of you are about their meaning..
But, OK, I won't lie, the lyrics ARE mostly creative in a good way. The other thing I don't like about the album, though, is Lupe's voice.. pisses me the **** off
storyteller
08-07-07, 09:55 PM
^maybe the doctors are the teachers or parents or guardians or whoever that wants the kid to be in the right path and the instrumental is his voice which means that hes only stating what the media is stating and not by his thoughts... do you get what i mean?
Yeah, that **** actually makes a lot of sense. Good looks on the views.
kennykenken
08-07-07, 10:20 PM
^thank you...actually that song is kinda simple....theres many songs from him that are more complicated than that!
listen to the song called failure on his mixtape. its crazy!
kennykenken
08-07-07, 10:22 PM
^thank you...actually that song is kinda simple....theres many songs from him that are more complicated than that!
listen to the song called failure on his mixtape. its crazy!
storyteller
08-07-07, 11:02 PM
^thank you...actually that song is kinda simple....theres many songs from him that are more complicated than that!
listen to the song called failure on his mixtape. its crazy!
Got failure, still haven't d/l'ed the whole mixtape though. Failure is RIDICULOUS.
kennykenken
08-07-07, 11:31 PM
his mixtape is the hidden gem. i like his mixtapes better than his albums....and i really dont get failure....its too complicated!
YaBoyMike969
08-08-07, 01:45 AM
"Hurt Me Soul" is one of the best hip hop songs in recent years, deep deep ****... American Terrorist is an outsiders view of america, and its so true too.. Lupe is way ahead of his time and the only real thoro artist i see coming outta this generation
kennykenken
08-08-07, 02:22 AM
i think hes the best newcomer in the 21st century!
^i think the box refers to TV or radio etc. hes talking about the media and how it affects to ppl esp. to the young audiences.
That's part right, but the thing is, in the song "the Box" is never specifically named and could represent just about anything. The TV or Radio are the common things people think of, but it could represent a computer, a home, a damn basketball court, basically anything and it still fits into the context of the song. Genious :thumbsup:
F*** Wayne, Lupe = Hottest emcee out
FaZedONE
08-09-07, 04:54 PM
the albums great aside from the got damn satanic arabic prayer(curse) in the beginning of it :weirdo:
storyteller
08-09-07, 09:26 PM
What's the name of the mixtape? I can't find it on albumbase.
kennykenken
08-09-07, 09:59 PM
What's the name of the mixtape? I can't find it on albumbase.
farenhieght 1st & 15 series...part 1- part3
kennykenken
08-09-07, 10:00 PM
That's part right, but the thing is, in the song "the Box" is never specifically named and could represent just about anything. The TV or Radio are the common things people think of, but it could represent a computer, a home, a damn basketball court, basically anything and it still fits into the context of the song. Genious :thumbsup:
F*** Wayne, Lupe = Hottest emcee out
i didnt really think like that! hmm....
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