We are talking about the sixth track, one of the 9-minuters on Lupe Fiasco’s latest full-length project, the 2015 album Tetsuo & Youth.
This song features, of all people, Lupe’s sister Ayesha Jaco. She performs a spoken-word bridge on the second part of this opus of a song.
What to say about this song? It’s very straightforward in its approach, unlike the vast, vast majority of the album it’s on. I even dare say that besides some of the most well-produced songs on the album (“Mural”, “Dots & Lines”), this is the only instantly likable one.
That’s not to discredit the album in any way, I had it at #6 of 2015, personally. 2015 being the year it was, that indicates that I loved this album deeply.
Lupe just is that kind of an artist, he’s good at creating intrigue, definitely one of the leading artists of today when it comes to metaphorical depth, and his music just had to be dug deeper than the next man’s shit, in most cases. That’s what I’ve come to expect from him, that’s what I got from him.
This song is, first, just three verses of very all-around well-done documentation, this goes through motions vividly, gets you hype and excited. Even outside of being one of Lupe’s best songs, it’s one of the best storytelling tracks I have heard.
The second part of this song… I’m not too hot on the bridge, it kind of drags along. For a long while after I first heard this song, way before I had a physical copy of Tetsuo & Youth, way before I started digging that deep into new music at all, I used to skip the second part everytime. Now it’s… passable to me.
This song breaks the tradition of Lupe songs where you have to just pay attention to the lyrics; with this one you can just vibe. It has emotional charge to it too, being that his buddy is currently serving a long-ass sentence in prison — he’s dedicated a more heartfelt song from his album to Chilly before, too.
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