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Happy Birthday To The Legendary Lupe Fiasco 
Lupe Is The Greatest Lyricist & Wordsmith of All Time.
But Is He Really?
Lupe Is The Greatest Lyricist & Wordsmith of All Time.
But Is He Really?
I Made A Thread On The 3 Main Categories of Lyricism Here.
In Short, They Are Yin
(Bars), Yang
(Concepts), & Yong
(Technical)
While Many MCs Show Excellence In All 3
Lupe Has Shown MASTERY Time & Time Again In All 3.
At The Highest Level.
https://twitter.com/frostedtakes_/status/1360297311692292096?s=21
In Short, They Are Yin
(Bars), Yang(Concepts), & Yong (Technical)While Many MCs Show Excellence In All 3
Lupe Has Shown MASTERY Time & Time Again In All 3.
At The Highest Level.
https://twitter.com/frostedtakes_/status/1360297311692292096?s=21
Let’s Take A Look At Lupe’s Handle On Yin:
BARS
Wordplay, Punchlines, Metaphors, References, Entendres, Imagery, Homonyms, Etc.
BARS
Wordplay, Punchlines, Metaphors, References, Entendres, Imagery, Homonyms, Etc.
Young Lu Came Into The Game As A Bar Master.
But It’s Not Just Wordplay With Lupe
HE MADE A SONG DESCRIBING A CHEESE BURGER WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY DESCRIBING A DRUG DEALER
There Are Witty Entendres-
And Then There Is Lupe...
The Entendre GOD
Punchlines With Layers.
But It’s Not Just Wordplay With Lupe
HE MADE A SONG DESCRIBING A CHEESE BURGER WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY DESCRIBING A DRUG DEALER
There Are Witty Entendres-
And Then There Is Lupe...
The Entendre GOD
Punchlines With Layers.
Very Few Rappers Have Mastered Imagery The Way Lupe Has 
He Is Consistently Using Cunning Bars And Sly References To Paint Pictures
Which Is Probably Why He Made Mural
Lu Takes Full Advantage of Visuals In His Lyricism So It’s Even Harder For Those With “Aphantasia”
He Is Consistently Using Cunning Bars And Sly References To Paint Pictures
Which Is Probably Why He Made Mural
Lu Takes Full Advantage of Visuals In His Lyricism So It’s Even Harder For Those With “Aphantasia”
And That’s Lupe Holding BACK 
If Lu Bar For Bar Wasn’t Already Over Everyone Else’s Head, He Went Over The Moon With His “Mural” Series.
His Song “Mural Jr.” Is Basically Rock Lee Taking The Leg Weights Off And Going Full Speed Ahead
The Question Really Is, Can You Keep Up?
If Lu Bar For Bar Wasn’t Already Over Everyone Else’s Head, He Went Over The Moon With His “Mural” Series.
His Song “Mural Jr.” Is Basically Rock Lee Taking The Leg Weights Off And Going Full Speed Ahead
The Question Really Is, Can You Keep Up?
So Lupe Has Many Times Over Proven To Be An Elite Tier Yin Master.
But Does He Have The Yang To Match?
Let’s Take A Look At Lupe’s Handle On Yang:
CONCEPTS
Storytelling, Perspectives, World Building, Plot Twists, Imagery, Emotion, Cohesion, Etc.
But Does He Have The Yang To Match?
Let’s Take A Look At Lupe’s Handle On Yang:
CONCEPTS
Storytelling, Perspectives, World Building, Plot Twists, Imagery, Emotion, Cohesion, Etc.
Drogas Wave Is A Concept Album
It Tells The Story of Captive Africans Turning Amphibious To Survive From Their Sunken Slave Ships
The Brilliant Way Lu Paints Slaves Jumping Overboard As An Entendre For Artists Being Taken Advantage of By Major Labels(Atlantic)Is 2nd To NONE
It Tells The Story of Captive Africans Turning Amphibious To Survive From Their Sunken Slave Ships
The Brilliant Way Lu Paints Slaves Jumping Overboard As An Entendre For Artists Being Taken Advantage of By Major Labels(Atlantic)Is 2nd To NONE
-Just The Tip of The Iceberg
Speaking of, Lu’s Album “Tetsuo & Youth” Is Like A Giant Iceberg Theory
Played Front To Back, It Goes In Order of The 4 Seasons Spring, Winter, Summer, & Fall
But Played Backwards? It Tells A Narrative of A Christ Like Figure Rising From The Dead?
Speaking of, Lu’s Album “Tetsuo & Youth” Is Like A Giant Iceberg Theory
Played Front To Back, It Goes In Order of The 4 Seasons Spring, Winter, Summer, & Fall
But Played Backwards? It Tells A Narrative of A Christ Like Figure Rising From The Dead?
Sound Like A Stretch? Maybe. 
But Lupe Does These Type of Concepts All The Time
Without Any Warning & Very Subtle Indication
Take His Song “The Coolest”
A Love Song From Fictional Character Michael Young Stuck Between Choosing Commercial Stardom Or Cocaine Dealing
But Lupe Does These Type of Concepts All The Time
Without Any Warning & Very Subtle Indication
Take His Song “The Coolest”
A Love Song From Fictional Character Michael Young Stuck Between Choosing Commercial Stardom Or Cocaine Dealing
And This Isn’t Even Going Over His Remix of Lil Wayne’s “Mona Lisa” Where He Lyrically Creates Leonardo Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” From Left To Right
In Pure Lyrical Vastness There Are Only A Couple of Lyricists In Lu’s Weightclass
It’s Without A Doubt That His Yang Is Maxed Out!
Let’s Take A Look At Lupe’s Handle On Yong:
TECHNICAL
RhymeSchemes,Alliteration, Assonance, Homophone, Syllable Placement, Vocabulary, Etc
It’s Without A Doubt That His Yang Is Maxed Out!
Let’s Take A Look At Lupe’s Handle On Yong:
TECHNICAL
RhymeSchemes,Alliteration, Assonance, Homophone, Syllable Placement, Vocabulary, Etc
Lupe Fiasco Has One of The Largest English Lexicons In All of Music 
His Knowledge of History, Science, & Language Allows Him To Find Infinite Words To Use At His Disposal
On “King Nas” He’s Practically Rhyming Whole Sentences While Staying On Topic Layered With Wordplay
His Knowledge of History, Science, & Language Allows Him To Find Infinite Words To Use At His Disposal
On “King Nas” He’s Practically Rhyming Whole Sentences While Staying On Topic Layered With Wordplay
And Mural Needs No Introduction
The Fact Alone That Lupe Is Pulling Off Some of Language’s Most High Brow Metaphors & Imagery
But Still Managing To Make It All Come Together Via Rhyme Is Just Otherworldly
There’s A Reason Joe Budden Refers To Lupe As An Alien
And This Is It
The Fact Alone That Lupe Is Pulling Off Some of Language’s Most High Brow Metaphors & Imagery
But Still Managing To Make It All Come Together Via Rhyme Is Just Otherworldly
There’s A Reason Joe Budden Refers To Lupe As An Alien
And This Is It
And Just When You Thought You’ve Heard It All..
The Man Raps In Spanish...
The Man Raps In Spanish...
Lupe Fiasco Is A Lyrical Genius.
He Has Overwhelmingly Mastered The Triad:
Yin
Yang
Yong
And Beaten It To Death Many Times Over.
Lupe Has Maxed Out All of His Stats.
There Is Nothing Left For Him To Prove With His Pen
And There Are Few Who Stand Beside Him
He Has Overwhelmingly Mastered The Triad:
Yin
Yang
Yong
And Beaten It To Death Many Times Over.
Lupe Has Maxed Out All of His Stats.
There Is Nothing Left For Him To Prove With His Pen
And There Are Few Who Stand Beside Him
Lupe Fiasco Is Unequivocally The Greatest Lyricist To Ever Grab A Microphone 
His Status? Untouchable.
His Status? Untouchable.
Check out the lyricism theory https://twitter.com/FrostedTakes_/status/1360297311692292096
