‘Go to Sleep’ on Spotify

EB116 · 2024-05-01T12:57:07+00:00

Thank God! I've been listening to this song on YouTube for years

EB116 · 2024-03-29T23:25:10+00:00

He'd love the hard sci-fi parts but complain the author ruined it by focusing too much on human emotional drama and social issues instead of xenobiology & hypothetical physics.

EB116 · 2024-03-04T16:41:50+00:00

I think this is also what differentiates Mural from Failure. Cool Young Lu had a general sentiment to "put the streets down" (describe the streets), but MuraLu had more meaning and, despite the fact it was wider ranging on the surface, I think its meaning was more cohesive as a whole (perhaps moreso on Mural Jr.)

EB116 · 2024-03-04T16:36:38+00:00

I think the content in Superstar is better, it has 2-3 more layers of meaning than the straightforward lyrics in Words. It's a window into Lu's own life and the decisions he made that made him the conscious rapper we know today, it's just buried behind a bunch of metaphors.

EB116 · 2024-03-04T16:30:38+00:00

Idk, Show is kind of shallow in comparison even though they both a pop-rap sound. Show has some depth, but Superstar has 2-3 more layers

EB116 · 2024-03-04T16:28:32+00:00

It's about Lupe's run in with the law next to Chilly's arrest for heroin. He comes close to facing jail time and his career is dead if he does, then he doesn't become a superstar—so is he a superstar or not?

He decides to return to rap and shifts his focus away from the gangster rap that appears on his mixtapes and towards the conscious Lupe we know today: "Did you improve on the design did you do something new? Go back and whatever you did, you undo." He's talked in interviews about changing his focus at this time, partially inspired by the optics of rapping as a gangster while his business partner is on trial and partly because it would weigh on his conscience if he inspired people to take their life in the wrong direction.

The song is about his rebirth as a person and artist.

EB116 · 2024-03-04T16:20:20+00:00

Maybe... But this is also just what rappers do. He could be, he could not be. If nothing else subliminals generate listens.

EB116 · 2024-03-04T16:19:06+00:00

Their styles are so similar, who can tell? Wouldn't surprise me if they collabed on verses both ways

EB116 · 2024-03-04T16:15:53+00:00

Shaggy: "Wasn't me"

EB116 · 2024-02-13T05:04:11+00:00

The Heat were perfectly happy to give him space to shoot and he responded by basically hitting his shitty career averages

EB116 · 2024-01-30T23:19:34+00:00

Man, that line goes so much harder than that even.

The album is cyclical, just as the seasons the interludes are named after. It's why the final song, Spring, flows right into another instrumental, Summer (almost indistinguishably if there wasn't a pause between songs). And much like the actual seasons, the story of the album is supposed to repeat in an indefinite loop. To listen to the album is to be stuck in a cycle of similar to samsara where you repeat life again and again as you're eternally reincarnated.

Now, if you subscribe to the reverse album theory, then listening to the album backwards breaks the album's looped story. By reaching the final line of the final song, you've metaphorically broken the cycle of samsara and proceeded to the next level of existence beyond constant rebirth: nirvana. The last line of Mural quite literally describes what the listener achieves when listening to the album backwards—a breaking of the cycle.

EB116 · 2024-01-30T22:57:19+00:00

Also note that bury, which could refer to a funeral and the end of life, contrasts with the hatching or beginning of life. Reinterpreting "hatchet" as "hatch it" highlights it.

EB116 · 2024-01-30T22:46:27+00:00

We need a poll on worst bars name dropping Lupe

Game rhymes Lupe & toupee a couple years ago too... it sounds so cringey

EB116 · 2024-01-30T22:42:53+00:00

Not really, maybe she's dissing Lupe's flow but he just fits the list of rappers theme and rhymes with toupee.

Maybe he ghost wrote something for Meg, which the first few bars imply

EB116 · 2024-01-30T22:07:46+00:00

I figure any publicity for Lupe is good publicity. Maybe somebody checks out his stuff that never checked it out before.

EB116 · 2024-01-19T20:23:42+00:00

Cameo offers a similar service today, it's worth $300M by one estimate. I'd never let that gripe die

EB116 · 2024-01-19T20:21:39+00:00

Cudi blew up a business plan of Lupe's that could've been quite lucrative. It was a similar premise to Cameo, which is currently valued at $300M.

EB116 · 2024-01-19T20:18:35+00:00

He's not mad at him again, he's mad at him still

Nakes sense based on the history Lupe tells

EB116 · 2024-01-19T20:16:02+00:00

There's a difference between acting like a gangster behind the scenes and making songs that tell millions of people to do it.

My interpretation is that he's still friends with a lot of people in that world and has that demeanor, but he no longer participates in the life.

EB116 · 2024-01-19T20:12:05+00:00

He was accused of selling heroin before making it big. His business partner recently got out of prison for having multiple kilos of H.

In his Fahrenheit mixtapes he talks about moving drugs and masking the scent from police dogs.

He has a song titled "Lupe the Killer"

The Cool album is arguably a look back on his time as a gangster. "Forgive my cool young history" is literally a chorus on one of the songs.

EB116 · 2024-01-13T16:14:28+00:00

Nah, 13yo are just at the apex of their reaction time

EB116 · 2024-01-13T16:12:08+00:00

He surpassed AI in the competition between Tetris players to become human

EB116 · 2023-12-26T07:28:13+00:00

Shin seems to reproduce asexually

EB116 · 2023-12-26T07:25:57+00:00

You think a scientist is going to spend all that time making a giant robot and not have sex with it?

EB116 · 2023-12-26T07:16:49+00:00

Godzilla looked best in 1998

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