Lupe Fiasco is the Reason why Hip Hop is NOT dead (Emperor Soundtrack video)

[??????]

yo this is the only new rapper out that im feeling. hes got charisma, swagger, flow and lyrics are crazy.

hes really the only new cat i can think of thats really bringing it and can make other mc's step their lyric game up! dont sleep on him no more! the future.


Emperor Soundtrack
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Freestyle verse(CRAZY!)
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[A to Dah K]

yea he had his 5 mins

 

[Noketown]

He got some sick flows...This is to complex for these young cats today...They are used to very simplistic rhyme shcemes

 

[divine]

As long as we got cats like, The Roots, Common, Mos Def, Lupe Fiasco, Little Brother, Nas, and a few others I'm sure I'm missing... Hip Hop will always have a pulse, however faint it may be....

 

[jblaque]

He Has A Nice Flow For A Young Kat!

 

[Dieciede]

Hes A Beast, I Thought He Had The Best Album Of The Year (Food & Liquor) And The Best Mixtape (Ryming Ape). I Never Listen To Cats Like This But Man Its Easy Listening To Him. He Fucked Up With His First Single (kick Push).

 

[AgentCreed]

yo can u up that Rhyming Ape mixtape?

 

[freaky_1]

That's how we do in Chi-Town. Well except for Bump J wack ass.

 

[NewyorkRealTalk]

I been saying this nicca hot but everybody talking bout how his record sales was wack.

 

[freaky_1]

Not me, because I bought it.

 

[XXXplosive]

One of the best in the game right now

 

[ThaAnsa3]

I really like this young rapper.

 

[PointyHeadPimp]

Yeah Lupe is the truth

 

[HueyFreeman7]

Word Life, this guy is true authentic HIP HOP....believe it or not. I don't think allot of people realize how good he actually is!

 

[NewyorkRealTalk]

I been saying that too Authentic Hip Hop.

 

[roots69]

lupe is good...ive been tryin to turn kats onto this guy for awhile now..the roots, lupe, strange fruit project, j-dilla, slum village, tanya morgan, jean grae, the whole justus league and a few others,,just fly over many folks heads...

 

[FreQ247365]

I been saying this nicca hot but everybody talking bout how his record sales was wack.

Record sales ain't got shit to do with lyrical skill. Its good to hear a young cat with actual skills. I'm just not feeling all this chanting 3-4 words for 16 bars over some rehashed track bullshit. Some of this shit sound like it was made by the kids off the little yellow school bus, speech impediments and all. This Lupe kid is helping to keep THE ART alive.

 

[DJB10]

Chi-town!!!!!!!!

 

[blkdominican]

Yeah he's a beast family! I've been bumping that Food & Liquor for a hot minute now. He's coming back this year with "The Cool".

 

[thahoodsprodigy]

He got some sick flows...This is to complex for these young cats today...They are used to very simplistic rhyme shcemes

smh.

still think only "young people" listen to trash like Dem Franchise Boys and the like dont you?

 

[NewyorkRealTalk]

That emperor shit hot!

 

[??????]

here are some young cats from chi-town with some ill lyrics...watch out for them. the beat is a little unpolished but just listen to the lyrics, they kinda got a lupe-ish swagger.

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[STAR-69]

He should have won the Grammy for best rap album "Food & Liquor"

 

[roots69]

oh yeah..i almost forgot about these kats...kids in the hall



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[??????]

oh yeah..i almost forgot about these kats...kids in the hall



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damn that shit is hot...

thats the kid nawledge and some other cat in that group. nawledge is deeso i saw him at chicago rocks last year.

im really feeling the chicago hip hop movement right now. and im NOT just saying that cause i was born and raised here...lol

between us and ny we can bring lyrical hip hop back!

 

[roots69]

check these kats out...strange fruit project..aplace



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[kdubbtha1]

oh yeah..i almost forgot about these kats...kids in the hall



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Real talk. Someone posted a thread a while ago about new Hip Hop artists and I talked about these cats. They shoulda let him flow that "Go Ill" track on the video. That shit is some real "If u ain't from Chi-Town, u wouldn't know about that" type of lyricism. Naledge iz Power!!!

 

[hiphopchaos]

LUPE FIASCO WAS FUCKIN ROBBED AT DAMN NEAR EVERY AWARD CEREMONY!!! THE GRAMMYS? LUDA WON BEST RAP ALBUM? PLEASE. FOOD & LIQUOR WAS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH HOTTER THAT FUCKIN RELEASE THERAPY! DONT GET ME STARTED WITH THE HIP HOP AWARDS THAT WERE ON BET! THAT WAS A FUCKIN SOUTH RAP AWARDS CEREMONY! FUCKIN BULLSHIT! KIDZ IN THE HALL ARE CRAZY WITH THEIR SHIT ESPECIALLY WITH JUST BLAZE BACKIN THEM...GAME OVER!

 

[NnubianN]

check these kats out...strange fruit project..aplace



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I'm feelin this one right here. His backround melody aint the same ol "play it for five seconds and loop it again." That repetitive shit wacks a song out after 30 secs no matter how heavy they spittin. He had original beats. His verbal flow was rhythmic and synched up nicely with his melody. Plus he wasn't shoutin Nigga every 5 seconds

 

[BlackSamurai]

I've been a fan of Lupe for some time now. I first heard him on this Lose Yourself remix on MP3.com, a couple of months before the reboot (yeah, it's been that long). Then I heard him on a remix to a song called "Didn't You Know" by this chick named Tha Rayne. Decent song, actually. I liked it.