Reviews (page 7 of 7)
Not bad, but didn't really excite me either. To be fair, it probably needed a more careful listen but apart from some good moments (Daydreamin') it didn't jump out and demand my attention.
I enjoyed a few songs but I wouldn’t listen to this album again.
Om nou te zeggen dat mijn muzikale horizon enorm verbreed is na het luisteren van dit album: neu.
2+
There's a proper 80's feel to match the album artwork. We're talking BIG production with some slick vocals. One hour and 12 minutes is WAY too long though. It passed a pleasant 45 minutes during some online admin. Then I bailed.
просто репчик
Not for me. It’s well made. Just too pop/kanye. Meh. Stopped after 3 or 4 songs.
Un son très similaire à ce que faisait Kanye West à la même époque. Reste du hip hop très pop et convenu.
One of the better hip hop albums I’ve had on this list, I gotta admit. But man, hip hip gets tiring so goddamn quickly. This had some cool moments but the songs just drag on and on because of the repetitive nature of the music.
r/iamverysmart
Un álbum sumamente influyente, que creó un estilo de Hip-Hop que dominó los tabloides norteamericanos hacia finales de los 2000s y principio de los 2010s. Aun así, este disco es una pieza de época; envejeció sumamente mal salvo algunas pistas del LP, con decisiones artísticas que se ven muy ridículas a través de los lentes de hoy en día.
I didn't feel it.
not really for me, liked some of it
Only a 2 because there are probably worse rap albums out there
Nope
This is not my style of music... but I don't hate it. I don't understand why he needs to insert his moniker in every song though.
Pretty cringe
Better than expected. Still not my cup of tea. Good for what it is. Standout: Daydreaming 2.5
et saatana ei ole aikaa olen niin suatanan myöhässä KAIKKI TURHAT PUHESKELUT SKIPATAAN.. SKIP..NEXT... noniin ja sitten albumista sen verran sanon tota erittäin aikakautensa kuuloinen. eli aivan mid middle, middle of the pack type beats... r ja b dingsbums...tylsää siis, pistä rohkeasti esimerkiksi rubab rabab lickki keskellä biisiä miksi ei. sanompa vaan sen verran. daydreamin heh parasta biisiä kuuluisasta, kuuluisasti cover biisi ei kukaan luule original teokseksi heh......
Interesting sounds and really boring lyrics. Yesterday's album was a British group from the '80s with exactly the same problem. Socially conscious but lacking any imagery or imagination. Pity, because he sounds OK. 4 tracks later. Attention starting to wander because it is hip-hop. I need songs, not talks. There is a lack of light and shade when someone keeps talking over a beat.
I don’t know. It was too lengthy for sure for such a similar sounding album throughout. At first I was intrigued but then it just kind of sounded similar to other artists and it got boring. It was interesting but 🤷♀️.
I don't know ... it's definitely ambitious, I'll give him that. Dense; there's a lot going on. I just don't *like* it, and I can't exactly pinpoint all of the reasons but the hefty share of the blame goes to his flow - there's an Eminem kind of vibe to his verses of whom i'm definitely not a fan at all. Monotone with jamming a lot of words in - might be a 90s hiphop thing/style? Weird - there's almost so much trying to go on, with too many words...the whole thing was just boring boring boring. I could see how or why people like it but i've been introduced to so much great hiphop through this 1001 and this one is just not my thing at all and was a struggle to finish. 3/10 2 stars.
Not for me, daydream is just a rip off, not so much a sample, as nicking daydream in blue. Not a fan of this sort of rap, yee-ah. Uh. Sounds quite creative though and I can see why fans of this genre are fans. I prefer it to anything Ye has done. Uh huh. Ye uh. Some of them have a cool groove like, Kick, push II. Also... It's too long. Not the most unpleasant listen, but not something I'll be reaching for again.
Some good songs on here, and good production, but it's not something I'd listen to again. Which is surprising, because I thought it would fall into the bucket of hip hop I usually like.
Veig que després de la primera edició del llibre, a les següents actualitzacions continuaven insistint amb discrets discos de hip hop, vulgars "un de tants" amb producció molt de l'época i un gust per buscar melodies properes al pop. Prescindible
Nearly breaks into low-3 territory with some inspired beatmaking here and there, but the lyricism just drags it so far down. The gratuitous 12-minute one-loop ‘outro’ (if you can call it that) is perhaps the most egregiously bad and self-indulgent/narcissistic thing I’ve heard on the list so far.
Not Jeremy music, and that's OK
First thought it was boring then I got into it and the beat made it sort of nice background music and then it was boring again
Never heard of this guy but the cover looks annoying, omg retro things 'member them? Song titles mostly say "feat. xxx" and that's always a red flag. Guy sounds exactly like Jay Z in places. Music sounds like.... Jay Z. According to Wikipedia, it comes from the Kanyesphere. Goes for over an hour. Better than Kendrick Lamar to be fair, but still just more proof that "black" music genres ran out of ideas in the 90s. 2/5.
I used to think Lupe Fiasco wasn't that great, I still do but I used to too. On further reading I found out he was connected to Jay-z and Kanya West and now I know why it's all the same musically and I'm not re-listening enough to find any pearls of wisdom in the lyrics I doubt were there in the first place.
the kick push song is good, but the rest of it is like kanye, which translates to shit.
Nonce
A decent alt-hip hop pulled straight out of the mid '00s. The album cover full of that nostalgia, with an original Nintendo DS, what looks like an early blackberry phone, CDs and wearing some Chuck Taylor Converses brings me right back. With themes of poverty, Islam, terrorism, racism, and individuality, this is one of the great hip-hop albums of the 00s. Although the Outro track was probably a bit self aggrandising, over 12 minutes for what is essentially a thanks track - the album is definitely better off without it, and lowered the score I am giving this album. Best: Kick Push Worst: Outro 2.5 stars
I really like Kick, Push but not the rest.
Never listened to this prior. Not a bad album, just not my preferred cup of tea. Good beats, okay lyrics and flow.
POV cillian murphy watching adrien brody give the longest speech in oscar history
He sounds like J Cole’s little brother, but not in a good way. Four songs in and this sounds like any other album from the 2000s that’s better forgotten. “The Instrumental” sounds like a Lincoln Park song. Having finished it I can say there’s not anything special ab this and it was kind of corny, listened to some J Cole after for some good music
This was ok. His voice and flow are good, but the choruses are often cheesy or don’t fit the rest of the song. It felt like the producer was trying too hard. “Kick, push” doesn’t have that problem and is great; will listen to that again.
This was pretty bad. Clunky child-like delivery, simple lyrics, little style. Although the backing music was decent. Also, no one asked for a 12 minute outro acting as a credit reel. No one.
I hate these corporate whore “artists.” You can just tell this guy made an album for the money instead of trying to make a piece of art. Bubblegum pop hip hop sucks.
This was already boring and then you’re gonna add in a ten minute outro of you just saying peoples fucking names? Get a job, hippy.
It nearly had music !! Why is this crap always long? I just dont understand why people like it..or dont they? Its crap. Turned it off.
Speaking of Fiasco ...
Nul
It was good to hear a snippet of Daydream in one of the tracks. Haven't heard the original for years. It was by the Wallace Collection in the '60s but then I re-discovered the i Monster hit from 2004 - Daydream in Blue - which was the actual sample on this. Now that album really should be in the 1001 list but isn't. "Neveroddoreven" is the name and is a really laid back and weird dream of an album which would get 5 stars from me. So thanks, Lupe for pointing me that way even though the generator has ignored it. I'm giving you a star here for that!
*No music, just rap. Most tracks sound alike
r&b hiphop, keiny ind co. might meins. c
Fiasco is an appropriate description. Still don’t like hip-hop.
Didn't completely hate it
Not the worst rap in the world, but not great. I skipped the last half of the last song when it was just 12 minutes of thanking random people and things. 1/5
Bullshit
What the heck varför är alla hip-hop album så frikking långa, det gååååååår inte
unmemorable
Don’t like all the RnB bits. Plods along in places.
This restaurant sucks.
Didn't do anything for me.
1 - not for me
I’m in the minority with this album. I just want it all to stop!
0.8/5 Just not my style of music. I found it more enjoyable than the Wu-Tang Clan and public enemy but I still couldn't listen to this again.
Fiasko är väl ett passande ord i sammanhanget. Oerhört kommersiellt strömlinjeformat och låter likadant hela tiden. Det är bara när underbara Jill Scott kommer in jag lyfter på ena ögonbrynet. Jag har antagligen roligare om jag lyssnar en timme på NRJ
Urtråkigt. En utspädd soppa utan blod. Kick, push går att ha på i bakgrunden. När jag når The instrumental är måttet rågat. Det är nog med den här System of a down-skiten. Åtminstone 15 låtar för långt.
Pish
1. intro - 0 2. real - 0 3. ok - 0 4. kick - 0 5. gotcha - 0 6. inztrumental - 1 7. zay -1 8. zunzhine - 1 9. dreaming - 2 10. cool - 1 11. zoul - 0 12. prezzure - 0 13. American - 0 14. Emperor - 0 15. puzh - 0 16. outro - 0 Zero piece of shit rapper
Americano rubbish full of foul language in an attempt to sound hip and cover over the cracks in the poor production. What a wanker. Brainless American shit, like all American music is.
I didn’t listen too much but it hurt my ears. This album just is not music, art, or anything good. 0/5.
HipHop? Nö!
I've never liked hip-hop. The lyrics are just nonsense and sound like they were written in about 10 minutes. There's no real talent here
Boring sounding. Listening to this was actually torture and I think doing anything else would of been more enjoyable. 1 star.
Hauska kyllä että miten eri tavalla nää levyt menee. Eilen hujahti Harrisonin levyn kanssa kaksi tuntia tuosta vaan, kun nyt Lupe Fiascon kohdalla katselin jo kolmannen biisin kohdalla että joko tää paska lohta loppuu. Omaan korvaan ihan tusinaräbäytystä, ja biiteistäkään ei jäänyt mitään käteen. Ihan jonninjoutavaa paskaa. Täysi fiasko!
boring
Even after many attempts, I still can't get into hip-hop. It's not music. 1/5
Yawn
Lupe = fiasco
bad
Not my thing
ok - this is not for me. I can't get on with rap tbh. This could be very good rap, but I couldn't say. I tried, but this just leaves me cold. Skip
In all fairness there were moments on this record that were marginally enjoyable - particularly the opening track (Real) but I was tired and wanting it over halfway through. Boring, common, pedestrian, uninspired, etc. are the words I would use to describe...2000's rap music lacking a clever hook or lyrics (Kendrick wop bop beep bang bong) just isn't my thing. Can we also stop with the gratuitous overuse of the 'n' word? Unclear why this made album made the list - no desire to ever listen again. 1/5
K-Mart Kanye
A fiasco would have been more interesting, instead this is an overlong, uninteresting 2000's rap album. I'm gonna give it a 1. Might be slightly harsh, but I didn't connect with it at all.
Neither fish nor foul
Day645 - fiasco is right
Nope, I hate that crap
mmmah
was dit al beu na eerste minuten... tip voor de persoon in kwestie : laat die "Lupe" maar vallen
Hip-Hop, but not just any Hip-Hop, this is Conscious Hip-Hop! However, conscious or unconscious, it's still Hip-Hop and I'm not a fan.
Didn't listen, not for me.
Super toothless and generic modern rap. This album is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too long. 72 minutes...
You can tell how strong the American bias of this list is due to this album making the list, despite Lupe Fiasco's considerable efforts. Surely there were better albums to be found from South America, Africa, Asia, Australia or even Europe (though that gets more than its fair share due to Great Britain being on the list).
Lupe Shitasco. That Outro was torture.
* Rap is not my thing
Don’t like rap/hip hop
Nothing kills an album more than starting off with generic hackneyed poetry with the same cadence and quality you get from a college poetry slam competition.
Vilket jävla fiasko av Fiasco.
Does nothing for me at all.
So much hip hop looks and sounds alike.
formulaic, and obvious
Не самый неприятный хип-хоп, но не более того. 2 из 10.
Extremely weak pop rap. 1 star.
Another 70 minute rap album and I couldn't handle this one. I have limited time so once I knew if I liked (mainly disliked) a track, I just skipped it halfway through. It's rap music. I very highly doubt it was going to kick into gear with a time signature change, a guitar solo or cool breakdown. The only things I can pick out that I enjoyed are the track with Jay-Z called 'Pressure' which had a cool beat and the second track 'Real' which had an electric guitar riff as a beat that I really enjoyed. Other than that, there's literally nothing I would come back to, sorry.
Hip-Hop. Noping out .... 1/5
Han borde hålla sig till Street Fighter.
This is pop rap trash
No va
Not for me
Hip hop its a american dog shit only relevant to americans, for the rest of the world this is rubbish!
No. Sampled it. Good production, very busy sounding, lyrically empty- lots of bragging. Not interested.
Never heard of him and I’m ok with that.
Continuamos com estilos musicais que não são do meu agrado. Nem me dei ao trabalho de o ouvir.
Did not care for this at all. Tiring, and wanted it to end after every song.
God damn I forgot how much I hated Lupe Fiasco in high school. It’s somehow maximalist and low effort at the same time.
Nah
Sorry, but... No. Just so generic.
I’m not listening to this
Meh
Didn't listen to the whole album which sums it up for me really.
This is seriously boring, 1 star or F for me.
Not my cup of tea at all
that was a FiASSco
Ughhhhhh. Even the album cover brings to mind what I believe to be the second worst type of rap. Spacey mid-2000’s rap that’s all melodic and sensitive makes me want to jump off a bridge. How about 72 minutes of it???? I really don’t know how this will sound, but in my imagination, I’m going to be miserable for the next hour or so. Let this fiasco begin. Whelp. This blows. That beat is one of the most abhorrent things I’ve ever heard. Bombastic and gross with a weak delivery. This is so incredibly dull. It’s like being rocked to sleep by a demonic horror. You feel weary and fatigued, but you know if you concede to the sleep you will be gnashed by the millions of jagged teeth in the cosmic maw of an unknown entity. Moving swiftly on. UGH. Stop saying “Food & Liquor.” It’s not the cool title you think it is. Again, this type of beat is horrendous. It’s so tinny and shallow. It focuses on the horns or whatever those are rather than, you know, the rhythm? Anyway. This mixed with the lyrical miracle rap and the lame ass R & B vocals tops off another stinker. Way to go Lupe. This had to be in Fight Night Champion. I can at least hear the drums on this one. Not the worst track so far, but it’s still the garbage I hate. Everything is just so squeaky clean and therefore extremely dull. The best song so far meaning the least painful instrument of torture. That accordion stab is boneheaded. Ooh is this that classic Owl City Evanescence crossover. 80% power 50% pain and 100% reason to remember the name. Who cares. This song actually made me laugh. 1000% pain and a 1000000% reason to skip it. Whoa. We’re getting meaningful. Every album like this has a song like this and they all suck. It’s ham-fisted sentimentality. It hasn’t been said in a while, but these lyrics stink. I’ve jotted down more interesting ideas in my notes app at the age of 17. That is not a compliment to me, but an insult of the highest order to Lupe, if that is his real name. He’s got such a boring delivery good god. This is a guy you see post videos on Christian TikTok or something. The sample is not the worst thing I’ve ever heard, but the female vocals over it are so cheesy, it ruins it. I get that he’s making fun of other rappers, but man, you should be making fun of guys whose main musical influence is Common (you). He swore!! Whoa guys. Lupe is letting his hair down. He wouldn’t say “bitch” when listening to Too Short? My dude. Don’t say that. Yes, misogyny is bad, full stop. Don’t even invoke the name of these people though. Too Short is so tongue in cheek. Anyway. I’m not going to get into an argument about lyrical themes with a guy who says “what constitutes a prostitute.” He’s just doing lyrical miracle spherical, imperial stuff. Oh buddy. The eagle screech and Jay-Z. Guess which one of those things I don’t like. It’s Jay-Z. Another key holder of the death of hip-hop from 2000-infinity. At least we have some saviours now. Lupe Fiasco is so lame and Jay-Z is dumb as hell. Is there even a kick drum in this? It’s so light. The production stinks. Big Matthew Santos feature for all you Mariachi heads out there. Or fans of white guys from Minneapolis who sing Spanish music. Whichever. I prefer “American Terroristt” by RxKNephew. At least there I learned something. The Emperor’s Soundtrack is the song I would play to detail every aspect of this genre that I absolutely despise. SOFT vocal delivery, boring beat, bright production. If it could be a single that plays over the Fast and Furious end credits, it’s probably not good. More overused tropes from spiritual rap. It’s just noise at this point. And not in a subversive or interesting way. Listen to “Black on Both Sides” and get what this trying to be with actual life delivered by a capable performer. I’m glad he’s reading names so we know who to hold accountable for this stinker. I’m looking at you DJ Chop. This is 12 minutes??? Lupe Fiasco mentions every person who has ever lived. Shoutout to HypeBeast.com. I would rather hear my name come up in a wartime draft than be credited on this piece of trash. You know this bad boy was the soundtrack to some (white) nerd’s first week in New York and now I have to suffer, almost 20 years in the future. This is what Kanye West sounds like to me, and that is the worst insult I can think of. Fitting that the album cover features a millennial college student surrounded by relics of the early 2000’s while in the infinity of space. This album does sound like it’s being played from inside a space shuttle while my spacesuit ruptures, causing my frozen organs to seep out of my adrift body. Or whatever happens in space. “Food & Liquor” is soft, non-confrontational, and not nearly as meaningful as it purports itself to be. This was more than a fiasco, it was a full-blown disaster. Like a spaceship explosion. Silent, yet incredibly destructive. Somebody save the DS. My NintenDogs need kibble. 0.5 HIGHLIGHTS: WHOOSH
I have zero interest in listening to hip hop and sampling this did nothing to change my mind.
Sounds like glam hip hop. Like Lin-Manuel Miranda created a rap persona. Hot garbage
this was not good.
Wow. Holy cr… already looking at the cover art work (or lack of it), makes me wanna throw up..
Utter rubbish
Not for me
Hot garbage. Why is this even on the list? Pretty bland and unoriginal hiphop.
Really really really boring. Kick skate song was fun though.
poop fiasco more like
Didn't like this at all.
Ok, this was not as bad as I feared when it started. Partly ok, some nice samples, etc. Still it's a 1 for me, way too little to give a 2.
Ok, but nothing special here.
Not interested in anything on the menu.
p908. 2006. 1 star. Hip-hop/rap with strings and brass sections. Well done of its kind, but wrong audience. Will not listen to it again.
Sorry, didn't make it past the 3rd song. It's a no for me.
Juste non
Wow, this is a real pile of crap alright. How did it get made???
3.73 rym no
buh
This is very underwhelming. Don't really care for this.
Não levei a sério a capa, mas vamos lá.. É ruim? Não. Mas é um tipo de música que ficou extremamente datado e marcado do início ali de 2000. Não gosto muito hoje
Rap&Hip-Hop is definitvely not my taste.
I'm just not into this, at all
Really can't tolerate
un fiasco.
J'étais près à dire que c'est toujours un peu la même soupe, mais sans doute pas la pire, à tolérer les instrus supportables et à un mettre un tolérant 2. Mais c'était sans compter sur une outro ridicule de 12 minutes où il fait un bigup à tout le monde, qui il veut, je m'en fous. Quelle pitié. Donc sur le fil 1. Fallait pas pousser non plus.
Bufff....
Bugs me so much when the rapper seems to not be aware of the music or rhythm of the song...
i really really dislike rap
Rap has it’s place in the music world, but…
Lupe doet zijn naam eer aan en zou er goed aan doen zijn voornaam te veranderen in 'Fucking'!
Ik kan en wil hier niets mee.
I find this type of music unlistenable. Next
Not my style at all.
Mais um de rap.
Die Platte sollte 'Kanye rap and soundalike fiasco' heißen. Unnötig.
Not my jam
I have nothing to say
I just can't stand to listen to this, it's awful. I don't like rap and the more I hear of it, the less I like it.
Most of this album is really boring, especially the introduction. Some of the beats are okay, but really, who would buy this album?
It's OK to judge this album by its cover. Then you even have to bother listening.
I simply don't enjoy rap in general and Lupe Fiasco is no exception. I managed to listen to about half of the songs halfway through and the one and only thing I enjoyed were the samples on Daydreamin'. That just isn't enough.
All of the worst moments of my life summed up in a mix of shocking beats and lyrics. A disaster that leaps into your face as fast as a gang of nazis diving into your mum's gaping pussy.