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ever heard of hieroglyphics? or other underground hiphop artists?

Chicago's urban neighborhood Wicker Park

its only urban neighborhood

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Josh Hartnett in Chicago's Urban Neighborhood

Chicago's dangerous, sexy, urban neighborhood Wicker Park

Chicago's dangerous, sexy, urban, very, bad, horrible, gay, neighborhood, Wicker Park

Josh Hartnett being watched boning some hot blond chick by a hot dark haired chick in Chicago's dangerous, sexy, urban, very, bad, horrible, gay, neighborhood, Wicker Park

Wicker Park was actually shot in canada, not wicker park

part of high fidelity was shot in wicker park

High Fidelity, starring Josh Hartnett, Matthew Santos and John Cusack

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby with a new Preface by Matthew Santos

"Paris, Tokyo" = summer jam.

so, I just heard "I'm Beaming"

it's terrible

like, punch-Lupe-in-the-face terrible

big ginormous frowny face

yeah when we opened for him in st peter he did a gang of new stuff and i got a bad vibe on the new album for sure

like, how do you go from the reliably fantastic second half of The Cool to some extreme bullshit like that

kanye, drake influence

Yeah, no doubt

I really just want to shake him, I was playing The Cool this weekend and it's still mostly unimpeachable (the only real weak spots are "Gold Watch" and "Paris, Tokyo")

I suppose going from playing "Little Weapon" on repeat to this tepid bullshit was dooming myself for disappointment, though

i like 'im beaming' tbh

damn son that appaloosa shit is hot fire, good looks

the original version of "Nothin' On You" is hilarious, Lupe sounds vaguely embarrassed to be on the track even though it's not really any more soft serve than a lot of the stuff on his albums

(the only real weak spots are "Gold Watch" and "Paris, Tokyo")

Those are my two favorite songs on the album.

And "I'm Beaming" is a cute song with a cuter video but not really something I'd bump all the time.

Yeah, "Gold Watch" is like the best thing on that piece of shit. "Paris, Tokyo" too.

it's not a piece of shit at all (which was quite the pleasant surprise after Food & Liquor)

Hmmmm that was my reaction to it when it came out. Should I give it another listen?

the real banger is "hip hop saved my life" which is the best song lupe has ever recorded aside from "kick, push"

it's not all good, but at least 50% is dope imo

lupe & MIA are two artists where i feel like if you delete half the shit from their two albums then you get one dope ass album

shit was "kick, push" nominated in the 05-09 poll? i should've voted for it if so

"Kick, Push" was pretty much the only good song on that album.

I liked some other stuff on that album (especially "Daydreaming" and "American Terrorist") but not enough to really want to hear more by him. Weird to hear that people like "Paris, Tokyo," always thought that was one of the worst singles I'd ever heard, dude should not be allowed to do singsong hooks.

The second half of The Cool is quite possibly my favorite stretch of music from that year (basically "Hip-Hop Saved My Life" through "Put You On Game"). Not really into "Paris, Tokyo", "High Definition" or "Gold Watch".

hip hop saved my life might even be better than kick, push...i love that song so much

you could totally slike "Paris, Tokyo" anywhere on Midnight Marauders. i'm really weirded out that someone could be actively annoyed by it, I feel like at worst it would just be inoffensive.

That's part of the problem with it; it comes across as a labored pastiche of something done 15 years earlier. It's basically the storyline of "Award Tour" mixed in with half of the beat of "Electric Relaxation" without any of the charm of either of the two source songs, plus the beat is incredibly flat compared to the other songs on the album, very few of which are actually trying to evoke a bygone era of hip-hop.

also it came out after Lupe forgot Tribe lyrics on national TV and then tried to play it off by being all whatever i never listened to them anyway, which was so lame

eh, I don't care about that; if "Paris, Tokyo" struck me as a stronger song, the ATCQ pastiching wouldn't bother me

THIS

FUCKING

GUY

http://wearenotlosers.com/

i think this may have sparked the egypt protests

this is a fun thread to reread

didn't he say he was retiring 4 albums ago or something

THIS

FUCKING

GUY

He's officially gone from somewhat awful with flashes of excitement to just being completely awful.

yah this album is a total load

that is disappointing but not unexpected

DJP, is there anything redeeming on this? i recall you being Lupe's #1 apologist the last two albums (frankly yr enthusiasm was what made me listen in the first place, found 'em hit & miss tho)

First album was great imo. Second was just a ghost of the first. The new one is different animal, but it's a rodent with rabies and I'm calling Animal Control to come take it away.

LOL!!!!!!

The Cool gets a really hard time but it has plenty of good moments, I always thought Go Baby would have been a huge hit for him if it had been put out as a single. It wasn't as good as the debut which is pretty solid apart from the never ending last song where he says thanks to everyone he's ever met.

I listened to Lasers this afternoon and thought it sounded okay to begin with but my about track five I was just desperate for it to end, it seemed to get worse as it went on. I have a big problem with the artwork too, did he really think that looked clever?