Mainstream Materialism is Killing the Tale

Hip-hop hopes are high, yet I think they’ll die.

With the decaying lyrical quality of the entire hip-hop genre, there are only a few artists whose words actually have a story to tell. The trivial racket that so many of today’s popular MC’s produce, lacks an abundance of important song characteristics; style, fluidity, prose, and most importantly, a point.

Although there are tons of respectable MC’s and rappers producing quality music regularly, there are only a handful of dynamic artists that rewrite the script on originality. (Here some hilarious charts explain what I mean by there are limited quality respectable artists.)

Lupe Fiasco falls right into this elite list of great lyricists, and his rapid delivery of words provide an interesting technique of combining slow, repetitive choruses, with insanely fast verses that somehow are easily understand but so hard to sing along with.

His most recent album, The Cool, is just that.

It’s an introspective story on Lupe’s life that fuses the real problems he’s experienced, along with the success and growth of his career, but still somehow tells an inventive tale of fantasy and fame.

The album has a two or three songs that wouldn’t be particularly appealing to the mainstream hip-hop audience, but the remaining are exceptionally well written, well produced, and basically a well performed story.

Go check this cool album out.

Overall Rating:
5 out of 5 FNF’s