Lupe went crazy on this

if you go further, be warned @op that Lupe starts becoming a looooooooooooooooooot more lyrical/bar-heavy after Lasers. Depending on how you feel about that it may effect your enjoyment level on some of his later works.

But it did give us joints like this

(probably one of the most complex rap songs ever)

yea that beat is bricks

his word play nice. thats something i see everyone talk about on here

the thing bout old Lupe was that he was gon' make you think but still make that s*** fun to listen to and bump.

took a whole year before Dumb It Down really hit me during high school.

from like 2006-2009 you could make a case Lupe was the perfect/best rapper.

Like if it was a video game stat sheet, Lupe was Madden '04 Vick.

switch might be the best thing ive heard from him so far itt

had this whole song memorized at one point in time.

04 Vick was a demigod

we will see tho

respectfully.

Listen to The Cool album front to back

DAWG LUPE WAS NICE

He's like Derrick Rose his career is very "what if this never happened".

top 10 favorite hiphop song

How old are you @op

Y'know how NOW niggas are all tryna to do the whole punk/rock stuff into hip hop and s***?

Yeah, Lupe was doing that in 2007 lol.

yea younger people can grow up and avoid Kick Push but there is no way the tune has never made it to your ear

This was the song where it hit me how good this nigga really was.

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@Zaywop remember the rollout into Lasers where he was hitting niggas with s*** like this?

I was f***ing hyped man.

now this is crazy. he was early asf on this wave. and he did it well

He actually had a rock project called Japanese Cartoon

Listen in release order
Yes, even lasers. That will make T&Y even sweeter

Skip drogas light though

Yo this whole thread just made me realize how much I love this dude music

Yeah as others have said, check out his first few LPs
Wish I could hear The Fighters or this song for the first time again