Damn, dude, Lupe snapped on this shit for close to 9 minutes straight. Glad he’s found his lyrically footing again. “Tetsuo & Youth” is gonna be a problem.
If he is in the zone like this then yes. I never doubted Lupe but it’s been a while since I heard him snap like this as you quickly realize he’s not fucking around. It’s refreshing..I really think he just doesn’t give a fuck anymore… With all the label issues past few years, the somewhat lackluster techno experimental production and the failed recognition within his thought provoking lyrics which many failed to grasp. He is now finally free of Atlantic after this and maybe free just to be Lupe.
you are correct but styles differ and it all depends on the mood one may currently be in. sometimes its a lupe kind of day and sometimes a Kendrick or cole kind of day. regardless I got mad respect for all 3 emcee’s. at least the styles have not changed drastically lyk the bull shit waynes been on the past few months. thank god they pertain to us non ignorant hip hop fans
In less than two years Curren$y and Jeezy both had this same sample, Mary and Beautiful. I guess Lupe don’t care… Okay. His fans don’t care either it seems… I’m not one of em.
A lyrical onslaught. This isn’t music, this is art. The mural – a mixture of everything good and bad filled with thoughts and emotions of all sorts leaving the listener to interperate, grasp and feel on their own. And who fucking cares if the sample has been used many times, it fits well with the vibe and mood as he’s locked in on this. “Simple as a Buddhist monk in a temple standing in some heel groove with the abbot practicing stillness, Real still til he realizes his realness. Defeats samsara achieves nirvana and brilliance.” Sickening, what a way to end it. This is Hip-hop.
I told ya name an emcee that’s fucking with this? NONE not Nas not Jay Z Not EM NO one! Lupe is on another Level! G.L.O.A.T. one of the best to ever do it Tetsuo & Youth is one of the best album i’ve ever heard! That’s saying a LOT considering Lupe got 2 classics under his belt (F&L, The Cool) now Tetsuo & Youth
This album is fucking CRAZY. I don’t even know how to react to it…..GODAMN. Like i wanna dance but then i feel the need to lie down and decipher lyrics and then i just end up laughing!!! Wasn’t expecting this
Lupe is on a shakespeares level, no point comparing him to other great rappers. “I ran the Gambit like im throwing Cards”-Lupe think about that for a sec!
First part of a party , that I throw in parts
One minute you’re playing pool, the next you’re throwing darts
But that’s how you do with a party that you throw in bars
Maybe I’m stupid but I don’t get wtf he’s talking about most of time, I read along with the lyrics and I’m like……. ? I’m not going to rate it but this is not good to me, real drag to listen to. Lupe, what happened?
I thought I was the only one who feels this way. This song is dumb. But you know Lupe’s motto; if you can’t awe them with genius, confuse them with bullshit
When painting various pictures (mural) there’s no need for you to understand its a random stream of pictures like (instagram) it doesn’t all tie together in cohesion.
“As I perform a nerd storm I prefer my pictures in word form, bury the hatchet like how a bird’s born.
“Paint cold pictures like Nova Scotia landscapes.”
“Paint cold pictures like “cool aid” facing condensation having conversations with flavorful combinations.”
Are we apps or are we bodies full of apparitions. Operating applications stuck inside an Apple prison.Chicken hacking download updates that lack religion.”
“the water bearer heir of traditions that I swear to never change my chair position or conditions of my porridge.
Nice, to money below saying Nas or whomever can’t touch this….wrong, GZA or Rebel INS have done as much damage with one or two lines, this is not dissimilar to Cappadona going off in Winter Warz. Still much props to Lupe
The dolphin in a coffin is a goblin with a blow hole
My name is Lupe I spot thru my A Hole
I wish I was J COLE
I got Kane no Able and ill sell my soul for whatevers on the table
Rappers like Lupe can barely afford cable
Steppin to the A.M with baby rappers in a play pen
Ask DJ Drama he knows how to Kay Slay em
A 4 ft. Rapper eatin Whoppers at the weigh in
Lupe rhymes with poopy
your rhymes are shitty thats why they never move me
I actually bought this album the 1st week. Listened to it 15-20 times in a row and never got tired of it, always picked up some more dope rhymes that I didnt hear the first time listening through. I definitely agree that this is number 1, he should’ve had the number 1 album too. But at least ya’ll recognize the Greatness. Lupe is keeping Hip Hop alive, God is the Greatest.
It’s not an organized rap ,it’s not a language either !!! Just be frank to yourself , what’s this to a music fan ??? It’s a good word play. It sounds more like a poem or bunch of rhyming metaphors but boring , doesn’t have all the necessary components of master raps 100% word-play , has no reality reflection or visual projection , just ” fictions “, doesn’t communicate well wit the listner either , no relevance either …there are a lot of poetry books ! that’s why KENDRICK WILL ALWAYS BE THE BEST !
Compare it with ,” Alright” , or” King Kunta” or Blacker the Berry “…have all the components of master rap !!!
Wtf is organized rap? And no this is not a new language, this is English. Dafuq?!? Visual projection is there you are just too stupid to understand engrish. No revelance? Like strippers and hoes? Guns and drugs? Click on the lyrics itll explain to you how revelant it is to Lupe Fiasco. Newsflash, kendrick is not a reality rapper, hes an entertainer and.actor, hes as gangata as lupe is /sarcasm . All you West Coast sore losers are haters. Lupe is killing Kendrick and Game, lyrically and with intellect. Just sit back and watch Lupe rip shit.
Ps: Master Rap? Wtf is that. I been listening to hip hop since 92, you don’t know shit about Hip Hop.
I can tell this is the only Lupe song you ever actually listened to. Kill yoself. Kendrick these walls is a bunch if unnecessary words. Go listen to Ke.drick – This free, if you want a bunch of words with no meaning. This is ART ,. Do you know wtf a Mural is? Of course you dont
Hey man you gotta be kidding , tell me his point in this bunch of unnecessary words ! It’s only a poem not raps …it’s pointless ….i bet u you as defender u don’t even know what he finally means ……These should be present in true raps to beautify it not to be a body of raps ! Wake up ! Lupe’s no rapper ! He’s a poet , Kendrick is a poet and relevant rapper ! Hus metaphors are on point not abstracts like Lupe’s !
Lupe is good but he needs much more learning trust me !
Actually bought the real cd can’t dubb no lupe, been jammin this track a week straight! Get on dx and see Lupe got num 1 good shit dx! Recognize the real let the dummies listen to chief keef and bitch homie quan. This is absolutely brilliant
Most overrated rapper in the game. This muthafucker doesnt even like to listen to hip hop hes a fuckin jazz fan go figure. I dont know why you people like this guy hes super fuckin corny read the “defintion” for tetsuo and youth on Genius. Its some dude from Pakistan talking about why he thinks the pizza man doesnt come to the hood then he trys to turn pizza man into piece of man lolol like hes some kind of genius savant lol you people think so highly of that fraud ass wack rapper
Keep bumpin that bullshit!
YOU PEOPLE LIVE IN A CAVE! YOU ACT LIKE NO ONES EVER SPIT LIKE THIS BEFORE? C-RAYZ-WALZ,VAST AIRE ECT… ALL DONE IT BEFORE YOUR BABY JESUS RAPPER LUPE DONT ACT LIKE HE’S SOME KIND OF UNNOVATOR OR ORIGINATOR YOU JUST DONT LISTEN TO REAL SHIT AND YOU NEVER HEARD IT BEFORE. LUPEE FIASSHOLE HAS DONE NOTHING NEW HERE SO SAVE YOUR BREATH FAN CLUB REPRESENTATIVES AND ENJOY YOUR NEW LUPE TRACK AND SHUT THE FUCK UP AND BTW I AM FROM CALI AND I DONT LISTEN TO FUCKIN GAME OR KENDRICK SO EAT A COCKROACH TESTICLE YOU FUNNY LUPE FANBOY BITCH!
YOU PEOPLE LIVE IN A CAVE! YOU ACT LIKE NO ONES EVER SPIT LIKE THIS BEFORE? C-RAYZ-WALZ,VAST AIRE ECT… ALL DONE IT BEFORE YOUR BABY JESUS RAPPER LUPE DONT ACT LIKE HE’S SOME KIND OF INNOVATOR OR ORIGINATOR YOU JUST DONT LISTEN TO REAL SHIT AND YOU NEVER HEARD IT BEFORE. LUPEE FIASSHOLE HAS DONE NOTHING NEW HERE SO SAVE YOUR BREATH FAN CLUB REPRESENTATIVES AND ENJOY YOUR NEW LUPE TRACK AND SHUT THE FUCK UP AND BTW I AM FROM CALI AND I DONT LISTEN TO FUCKIN GAME OR KENDRICK SO EAT A COCKROACH TESTICLE YOU FUNNY LUPE FANBOY BITCH!
I’m slightly amazed for anyone who accuses Lupe of being corny but not J.Cole. Bahahaha. Anyway, that being said. It’s difficult to find good hip hop now. I’ve been listening since the 90s and normally I go underground for my music, but I’ve always given Lupe’s a listen because I do think he’s…clever. I see a few haters on here. One in particular who felt the need to post how much he hated this cd like ten times. Dude, if you hated it that much, something is wrong with you and you must hate hip hop in general. True it’s not Illmatic or Rakim The Master or a million other MC’s who flow well, but for what it is it’s decent. Not worth being hated on like that. Come on. Lupe is smart and he has some skills that artists are not putting out nowadays. Ugh.
P.S. I’m super late to this forum but thought I’d join nonetheless I was looking for the lyrics to “Mural” and saw all the haters and thought I’d put my two sense in
dope
Amazing, Lupe tha Goat
Damn, dude, Lupe snapped on this shit for close to 9 minutes straight. Glad he’s found his lyrically footing again. “Tetsuo & Youth” is gonna be a problem.
He’s always been lyrical man. The only thing that been getting in his way is some of his lack luster production and his energy on certain songs.
If he is in the zone like this then yes. I never doubted Lupe but it’s been a while since I heard him snap like this as you quickly realize he’s not fucking around. It’s refreshing..I really think he just doesn’t give a fuck anymore… With all the label issues past few years, the somewhat lackluster techno experimental production and the failed recognition within his thought provoking lyrics which many failed to grasp. He is now finally free of Atlantic after this and maybe free just to be Lupe.
J Cole and Kendrick can’t rap on this level.
you are correct but styles differ and it all depends on the mood one may currently be in. sometimes its a lupe kind of day and sometimes a Kendrick or cole kind of day. regardless I got mad respect for all 3 emcee’s. at least the styles have not changed drastically lyk the bull shit waynes been on the past few months. thank god they pertain to us non ignorant hip hop fans
Cole can’t rap on Budden level, Kendrick can’t rap on Rakim level
Lupe tha killa
In less than two years Curren$y and Jeezy both had this same sample, Mary and Beautiful. I guess Lupe don’t care… Okay. His fans don’t care either it seems… I’m not one of em.
Who the hell cares Duke, none of those rappers are touching this caliber of lyricism.
many beats are recycled anyways. Lupe killed this.
Just wow. Amazing
it’s testuo season
A lyrical onslaught. This isn’t music, this is art. The mural – a mixture of everything good and bad filled with thoughts and emotions of all sorts leaving the listener to interperate, grasp and feel on their own. And who fucking cares if the sample has been used many times, it fits well with the vibe and mood as he’s locked in on this. “Simple as a Buddhist monk in a temple standing in some heel groove with the abbot practicing stillness, Real still til he realizes his realness. Defeats samsara achieves nirvana and brilliance.” Sickening, what a way to end it. This is Hip-hop.
Mind blown, wow.
First album that I’ll be buying in years!
EXCELLENT
Fire
I told ya name an emcee that’s fucking with this? NONE not Nas not Jay Z Not EM NO one! Lupe is on another Level! G.L.O.A.T. one of the best to ever do it Tetsuo & Youth is one of the best album i’ve ever heard! That’s saying a LOT considering Lupe got 2 classics under his belt (F&L, The Cool) now Tetsuo & Youth
Dude this is a new level of lyricism! mind fucking blown! Im sorry if i ever doubted you Lupe! The whole album is amazing! Go cop that!
Lupe fiasco’s Mural makes Eminem Rap God look like a kindergarten musical. This is Art! fuck Lupe is A PROBLEM!
no one can do it like lupe do. this is the lu we love
Wow, this is actually more lyrical than “Dumb It Down”. Cot Damn
MOTHERFNNNN WHAT THE…. LU JUST KILLED EM
My goodness! This ma’am is flat out amazing! I’m sorry, this dude is top 3.
Wow. Just…dope.
Phenomenal track and album, go out and support this !
lupe is on another level
Going to take about 50 listens to decipher this but I like!
This album is fucking CRAZY. I don’t even know how to react to it…..GODAMN. Like i wanna dance but then i feel the need to lie down and decipher lyrics and then i just end up laughing!!! Wasn’t expecting this
Amazing album.
Lupe is on a shakespeares level, no point comparing him to other great rappers. “I ran the Gambit like im throwing Cards”-Lupe think about that for a sec!
Lol you should just write Lupe a love letter
Yo this LP is straight fire dawg. Would’ve been Hip-hop album of the year in 2014 no doubt.
DX and rapgenius?
only w/ a luoe song, huh ?
🙂
Yuuuuup
His album is fucking fantastic, damn near flawless. Everyone buy it tomorrow, you will not be disappointed. I’m still in awe after my first listen!
GOD FLOW
Yeeeeaaaaaaaaah
First part of a party , that I throw in parts
One minute you’re playing pool, the next you’re throwing darts
But that’s how you do with a party that you throw in bars
Maybe I’m stupid but I don’t get wtf he’s talking about most of time, I read along with the lyrics and I’m like……. ? I’m not going to rate it but this is not good to me, real drag to listen to. Lupe, what happened?
He’s painting a picure, or better said a “Mural”. I feel you though, It was very confusing at first 😛
I thought I was the only one who feels this way. This song is dumb. But you know Lupe’s motto; if you can’t awe them with genius, confuse them with bullshit
Lol…dude it gives you insight into the meaning by clicking on each line..not sure how much more help you can be given.
This Defensive mindset that “if I dont initially understand this then it must be nonsense/bull$#!%” is ignorant.
Beat was fire though
When painting various pictures (mural) there’s no need for you to understand its a random stream of pictures like (instagram) it doesn’t all tie together in cohesion.
“As I perform a nerd storm I prefer my pictures in word form, bury the hatchet like how a bird’s born.
“Paint cold pictures like Nova Scotia landscapes.”
“Paint cold pictures like “cool aid” facing condensation having conversations with flavorful combinations.”
Are we apps or are we bodies full of apparitions. Operating applications stuck inside an Apple prison.Chicken hacking download updates that lack religion.”
“the water bearer heir of traditions that I swear to never change my chair position or conditions of my porridge.
Nice, to money below saying Nas or whomever can’t touch this….wrong, GZA or Rebel INS have done as much damage with one or two lines, this is not dissimilar to Cappadona going off in Winter Warz. Still much props to Lupe
This is my shit when commuting
The best song this year! Lupe is a monster lyricist!
Fantastic song. The beat was on fire, the lyricism was fire too. Best rap song this year
MORE HOT GARBAGE!!
U commented on this twice just to hate?!?!
This shit is bars on top of bars, over a great beat, the pictures are painted very vividly aswell. How can you not appreciate that?
If you gave it a 3/5 and said you didn’t like it then fine, that’s human but to give it a 1/5, its like you either didn’t listen or you just hating.
This nigga putting in so much work to comment mad hate over and over, he’s either:
An Exec at Atlantic
A 14 year old with no friends
or Hip-Hop police
Naw I read I listened I watched ect… Still sucks ilexx Lupe knows your his biggest fan btw
The dolphin in a coffin is a goblin with a blow hole
My name is Lupe I spot thru my A Hole
I wish I was J COLE
I got Kane no Able and ill sell my soul for whatevers on the table
Rappers like Lupe can barely afford cable
Steppin to the A.M with baby rappers in a play pen
Ask DJ Drama he knows how to Kay Slay em
A 4 ft. Rapper eatin Whoppers at the weigh in
Lupe rhymes with poopy
your rhymes are shitty thats why they never move me
I actually bought this album the 1st week. Listened to it 15-20 times in a row and never got tired of it, always picked up some more dope rhymes that I didnt hear the first time listening through. I definitely agree that this is number 1, he should’ve had the number 1 album too. But at least ya’ll recognize the Greatness. Lupe is keeping Hip Hop alive, God is the Greatest.
It’s not an organized rap ,it’s not a language either !!! Just be frank to yourself , what’s this to a music fan ??? It’s a good word play. It sounds more like a poem or bunch of rhyming metaphors but boring , doesn’t have all the necessary components of master raps 100% word-play , has no reality reflection or visual projection , just ” fictions “, doesn’t communicate well wit the listner either , no relevance either …there are a lot of poetry books ! that’s why KENDRICK WILL ALWAYS BE THE BEST !
Compare it with ,” Alright” , or” King Kunta” or Blacker the Berry “…have all the components of master rap !!!
Wtf is organized rap? And no this is not a new language, this is English. Dafuq?!? Visual projection is there you are just too stupid to understand engrish. No revelance? Like strippers and hoes? Guns and drugs? Click on the lyrics itll explain to you how revelant it is to Lupe Fiasco. Newsflash, kendrick is not a reality rapper, hes an entertainer and.actor, hes as gangata as lupe is /sarcasm . All you West Coast sore losers are haters. Lupe is killing Kendrick and Game, lyrically and with intellect. Just sit back and watch Lupe rip shit.
Ps: Master Rap? Wtf is that. I been listening to hip hop since 92, you don’t know shit about Hip Hop.
I can tell this is the only Lupe song you ever actually listened to. Kill yoself. Kendrick these walls is a bunch if unnecessary words. Go listen to Ke.drick – This free, if you want a bunch of words with no meaning. This is ART ,. Do you know wtf a Mural is? Of course you dont
Hey man you gotta be kidding , tell me his point in this bunch of unnecessary words ! It’s only a poem not raps …it’s pointless ….i bet u you as defender u don’t even know what he finally means ……These should be present in true raps to beautify it not to be a body of raps ! Wake up ! Lupe’s no rapper ! He’s a poet , Kendrick is a poet and relevant rapper ! Hus metaphors are on point not abstracts like Lupe’s !
Lupe is good but he needs much more learning trust me !
Actually bought the real cd can’t dubb no lupe, been jammin this track a week straight! Get on dx and see Lupe got num 1 good shit dx! Recognize the real let the dummies listen to chief keef and bitch homie quan. This is absolutely brilliant
G.O.A.T.
Dope track, this is one of those that needs multiple listens to truly capture it. Lupe does it again.
ey3 was hip to this song back in jANUARY 2015…#TETSUO & YOUTH is a str8 FIRE..”lyrical” masterpiece…….very underated album of 2015
Most overrated rapper in the game. This muthafucker doesnt even like to listen to hip hop hes a fuckin jazz fan go figure. I dont know why you people like this guy hes super fuckin corny read the “defintion” for tetsuo and youth on Genius. Its some dude from Pakistan talking about why he thinks the pizza man doesnt come to the hood then he trys to turn pizza man into piece of man lolol like hes some kind of genius savant lol you people think so highly of that fraud ass wack rapper
Keep bumpin that bullshit!
Lupe reminds me of Jonah Hill doin slam poetry on 22 Jump Street
We died for our SIN THEE AHHS LOLOL
Damn, Lupe spazzed on this one!!! Stoooopid breath control. #Inspirational
YOU PEOPLE LIVE IN A CAVE! YOU ACT LIKE NO ONES EVER SPIT LIKE THIS BEFORE? C-RAYZ-WALZ,VAST AIRE ECT… ALL DONE IT BEFORE YOUR BABY JESUS RAPPER LUPE DONT ACT LIKE HE’S SOME KIND OF UNNOVATOR OR ORIGINATOR YOU JUST DONT LISTEN TO REAL SHIT AND YOU NEVER HEARD IT BEFORE. LUPEE FIASSHOLE HAS DONE NOTHING NEW HERE SO SAVE YOUR BREATH FAN CLUB REPRESENTATIVES AND ENJOY YOUR NEW LUPE TRACK AND SHUT THE FUCK UP AND BTW I AM FROM CALI AND I DONT LISTEN TO FUCKIN GAME OR KENDRICK SO EAT A COCKROACH TESTICLE YOU FUNNY LUPE FANBOY BITCH!
YOU PEOPLE LIVE IN A CAVE! YOU ACT LIKE NO ONES EVER SPIT LIKE THIS BEFORE? C-RAYZ-WALZ,VAST AIRE ECT… ALL DONE IT BEFORE YOUR BABY JESUS RAPPER LUPE DONT ACT LIKE HE’S SOME KIND OF INNOVATOR OR ORIGINATOR YOU JUST DONT LISTEN TO REAL SHIT AND YOU NEVER HEARD IT BEFORE. LUPEE FIASSHOLE HAS DONE NOTHING NEW HERE SO SAVE YOUR BREATH FAN CLUB REPRESENTATIVES AND ENJOY YOUR NEW LUPE TRACK AND SHUT THE FUCK UP AND BTW I AM FROM CALI AND I DONT LISTEN TO FUCKIN GAME OR KENDRICK SO EAT A COCKROACH TESTICLE YOU FUNNY LUPE FANBOY BITCH!
Inspirational!
I’m slightly amazed for anyone who accuses Lupe of being corny but not J.Cole. Bahahaha. Anyway, that being said. It’s difficult to find good hip hop now. I’ve been listening since the 90s and normally I go underground for my music, but I’ve always given Lupe’s a listen because I do think he’s…clever. I see a few haters on here. One in particular who felt the need to post how much he hated this cd like ten times. Dude, if you hated it that much, something is wrong with you and you must hate hip hop in general. True it’s not Illmatic or Rakim The Master or a million other MC’s who flow well, but for what it is it’s decent. Not worth being hated on like that. Come on. Lupe is smart and he has some skills that artists are not putting out nowadays. Ugh.
P.S. I’m super late to this forum but thought I’d join nonetheless I was looking for the lyrics to “Mural” and saw all the haters and thought I’d put my two sense in