<p>Holy ****. Either Kanye is on top of the world or about to kill himself, tough to tell. Either way he's a lyrical genius and this album is amazing.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t call any mainstream rap artist a “lyrical genius”</p>
<p>This album won’t be on the radio. That’s for sure.</p>
<p>Wasn’t there controversy on the album art? did he change it?</p>
<p>It’s blurred out on itunes but he didn’t change it. Seriously though just buy this album right now.</p>
<p>I just got the album and love it. Its a great mix, every song sounds different and unique.</p>
<p>Thats why I didnt like MOTM2 (every song sounded the same…and bad). </p>
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Just because they’re mainstream means they can’t be good? In my opinion, Lupe has the best lyrics and he’s headed for mainstream if more of his songs are like “the show goes on”</p>
<p>Theres a reason some people are underground…its because they suck.</p>
<p>@RAlec114, your ignorance is showing.</p>
<p>Anyways, I’m trying to find the money to buy it! I’ve heard a couple of the songs because they leaked, but I’m trying to hold off otherwise.</p>
<p>Rated perfect 10 on Pitchfork, the first since Wilco. Hipsters everywhere are killing themselves in massive mobs of protest. In response, the quiet inhabitants of San Francisco and New York celebrate by indulging in some Toby Keith. These inhabitants are joined by the police force who have just explained to the Hipsters that it’s like, totally ironic to not help maintain the peace.</p>
<p>Tonight, the world rejoices.</p>
<p>You can tell Kanye really did it his way this time. No interference from labels trying to produce a radio single or anyone else with creative control. Absolutely can’t wait for the joint album with Jay-Z to come out.</p>
<p>^^^^ Another Lu head? Awesome.</p>
<p>I don’t think Lu’s heading “mainstream” per se. He’s always had one or two “pop” radio songs on each album, think “Superstar” or “Kick, Push.” The label makes him do it so they can sell records. His most lyrical work anyways were on his mixtapes, particularly TIAU and ROTN. Failure, Mean & Vicious, and Lupe the Killer are among his best songs lyrically.</p>
<p>Listen to S.L.R. Lu’s way too smart to dumb it down. In some ways, I want Friend of the People more than I want Lasers, although don’t get me wrong, I’ve been seriously lusting over Lasers. It’s just that FOTP will be a masterpiece, a lyrical mind****.</p>
<p>Lupe gets overlooked so often 
It’s ridiculous. He’s definitely in my top 5.</p>
<p>MBDTF is probably tied with MOTM2 as the best album of the year. I’m glad that Ye went away from the auto-tune techno ***** that was 808s and back to the old Ye.</p>
<p>The production values on MBDTF are amazing. I’ve had this album for the last couple of weeks now and some of his work still amazes me. I think this is his best album since the College Dropout, and I loved Graduation.</p>
<p>That being said, I don’t think Ye is or ever will be a lyrical genius. He’s a producer first and foremost, and he’s a good rapper. However, Ye’s lyrics aren’t even remotely close to Lupe, Blu, Budden, or even Hova. His flow and delivery, combined with his production, more than make up for it though.</p>
<p>^^ Lu gets overlooked because most people are too dumb/ignorant to see his lyrics. In every single Lupe verse, there are double entendres, metaphors, wordplay, and hidden meanings that most people will never realize.</p>
<p>I almost can’t listen to Lu anymore when I’m doing hw because I just get sucked into analyzing his lyrics and can’t focus on anything else. I can listen to one of his songs 10 different times and come up with stuff I completely missed the first 9 times.</p>
<p>Anyone that doesn’t understand this needs to listen to Failure with a copy of the lyrics. It’ll blow your mind away.</p>
<p>So true. I can find something new every time I listen to one of his tracks. There are so few artists today that make you get absorbed into their lyrics like that.</p>
<p>Not only that, but Lu is an amazing storyteller too. Neither Hip Hop Saved My Life nor Kick Push are lyrically amazing tracks, but in both I could envision clearly the story that he was trying to tell. I can picture Slim Thug rapping every single word to his newborn child like I was in the room next to him. I feel the same frustration that comes across the kid as the cop came and told him there’s no skating here. It’s uncanny, and gives his songs such high replay value.</p>
<p>Kick, push, kick, push, kick, push, coasssssssst…</p>
<p>It’s a lyrical masterpiece</p>
<p>My favorite track is Lost in the World, while my favorite guest verse is Nicki Minaj in Monster. They’re both…captivating. And they both have Bon Iver in them c:</p>
<p>^It’s funny because Nicki Minaj stole the show in “Monster” (as you said) with her verse, but then Kanye West stole the show on Nicki’s track off her new album (which is amazing by the way) called “Blazin.” I really think Kanye is stepping up lately even though I knew he always had it in him.</p>
<p>It’s cool because it’s most similar (although nothing’s really the same as it) to his first album from 2004 and most different than his last album. He changes every album so much but they’re all awesome in different ways. Oh and how about that all the lights interlude. He just throws that in there and it’s so perfect.</p>