Link: Pharoah Height EP

Stream: http://www.audiomack.com/album/fashionably-early/pharaoh-height

Enjoy.

"Yes I see all the nummmberrs... I still root for the dreeeamerrs... I thank God for the dreeeamerrs..." - Mos

edit: After listening further I'm guessing this is Robert Glasper, what's it from?

this EP sounds amazing

it definitely starts off as a cover of Slum Village's "Fall-n-Love"...probably a Black Radio joint, I'm searching now

EDIT: Robert Glasper - "Dillalude #2" from Black Radio Recovered. and I forgot about the "E=MC2" part at the beginning

this is incredible

http://www.illroots.com/watch/robert-glasper-levels-live-at-capitol-studios

Also, he just retweeted me, apparently he agrees:

https://twitter.com/amplifya/status/637629162031874048

That collabo would be an instant cop for me.

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I'm actually about to blow this here Harry Potter,
believe it or not

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"I ORBITs the solar system, listenin..."

(C)Keith Murray, "

GREAT stuff. i've loved the character since i was a kid, and nibbled at the series here and there over the years, always wanted to just knock the whole thing out.

>
>I'm actually about to blow this here Harry Potter,
>believe it or not
>

man, them shits have been on my kindle for at least 3 years. still haven't gotten around to them. my girl's 8 yr old niece actually just started on them a little while back. shorty is voracious, i think she's already on book 4.

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it is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. - sherlock holmes

>GREAT stuff. i've loved the character since i was a kid, and
>nibbled at the series here and there over the years, always
>wanted to just knock the whole thing out.

You've got very good retro taste. I'm hit or miss. I was
fucking with Faulkner (as you remember, love him), then dipped
into Sinclair Lewis, who I couldn't stand

So I need to be a bit more careful with my retro shit

I be looking at these James Joyce novels side-eyed (never
bothered in the past, for whatever reason)

>man, them shits have been on my kindle for at least 3 years.
>still haven't gotten around to them. my girl's 8 yr old niece
>actually just started on them a little while back. shorty is
>voracious, i think she's already on book 4.

Yeah, I'm getting back into young adult shit, just because
I feel like when people nail that genre, they really do some
fabulous shit with it....mature enough that you can tackle
VERY serious shit (Hunger Games, for ex), light enough that
you can experiment with silliness...plus, you're not writing
for the New Yorker reviewer, so writers are more comfortable



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"I ORBITs the solar system, listenin..."

(C)Keith Murray, "

whose production is that one?

actually, can we list who did each one ?

Valleys must be Glasper
Of is Dilla
Pyramid is FlyLo

who did the other 3?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJVxPAiB7as

rapping over a video game trailer. that's got to be a first

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LY3ftiLqmE

dude is a motherfucking monster.

thank you Lu!

.

...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

Exactly!!!!!! Dude's been dope but now....yep!

..."Focus on the Past your ass will be has what" - Dre3000

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"I ORBITs the solar system, listenin..."

(C)Keith Murray, "

Fuck filler.

>Fuck filler.

Lulz

Im guessing it'll be something by Jonathan Franzen.

Lulz

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"I ORBITs the solar system, listenin..."

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Lulz


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"I ORBITs the solar system, listenin..."

(C)Keith Murray, "

Are you still pretending Lasers and Food and Liquor 2 were good? Because while we may all be frothing over post-Atlantic Lupe, no one is gonna retrospectively give you any credit for stanning over his duds.

But full credit for sticking with his potential when the rest of us abandoned ship.

"Yes I see all the nummmberrs... I still root for the dreeeamerrs... I thank God for the dreeeamerrs..." - Mos

>Are you still pretending Lasers and Food and Liquor 2 were
>good? Because while we may all be frothing over post-Atlantic
>Lupe, no one is gonna retrospectively give you any credit for
>stanning over his duds.
>
>But full credit for sticking with his potential when the rest
>of us abandoned ship.

No, I just wasn't a miserable nerd like the Lesson was.

I listened to the music.

I also didn't exclusively like black genocide rap (some
genocide music sounds really good, and is artful...problem is
that Lessonhead nerds, and most white rap fans, exclusively
bought that stuff, shunned the black kids who were thinking.
Its destructive, and I will never forgive Lessonhead types
for it, because you almost ruined the culture. Period)

Sad.

bwahahahahahahahahahahahah


Welp



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"I ORBITs the solar system, listenin..."

(C)Keith Murray, "

Yup. I legit had you that mad.

Because Lupe is a rap god, and the Lesson is weak, feeble
and sad

Bwahahahahahahaha


Lupe got y'all eating stinky booty

Dweebs

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"I ORBITs the solar system, listenin..."

(C)Keith Murray, "

should probably be better versed in the genre he writes about.

Eventually we'll get you to listen to and like a black
rapper who doesn't celebrate black death

Baby steps, bro



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"I ORBITs the solar system, listenin..."

(C)Keith Murray, "

I'll admit I rarely listen to either, but I think it's fair to say that both were at least *good* albums in that they offered enough good rap tracks so as not to dismiss them as *bad*

they just weren't as good as what we all knew Lupe was capable of

I'm cool with Lasers because I'm convinced Lupe did the best he could with the hand he was dealt. it was clear he was being force-fed those factory-line beats + hooks ("Words I Never Said" is borderline unlistenable IMO) and that he had to compromise his creative integrity to get it released. but it's hard to pretend he wasn't still coming with the heat lyrically--in fact WINS is probably the best example of this shitty beat/hook+fire bars dynamic

despite the label pressures, he managed to still sneak in that subversiveness that is so characteristic of all his work, only this time it was for a different audience and in a different format. form follows function?

I wasn't mad about it because I thought it was pretty clever how he flipped very commercial/pop-sounding tracks into something more politically potent. it wasn't made for lessonheads, but if its commercial success is any indication, it seems that a lot of people who come from a particular bracket of music consumption got exposed to a lane of lyrical quality/political thought that they might not have otherwise been exposed to. i'm sure not everyone will agree, but that quality in and of itself is worthy of praise IMO

as far as F&L II, I'm re-listening to it now and it's really not that bad. sure there's some filler but there's at least 10 *good* tracks on there. I think the Lasers ordeal definitely colored folks (including mine) experience with it

but I'll be damned if he didn't redeem himself (and the apologists) with these last two releases...

Under the guise of "I expect more from him," which was
just Nerd-ese for justifying a stupid double standard

Both albums were "good" at LEAST

And each had GREAT moments. GREAT moments.

So his career has pretty much been spectacular, front
to back

And now he's just destroying everyone and changing the
culture

He didn't evolve.
We did.

Were absolute trash. They were the most generic sounding electro poppy mainstream sounding rubbish he could find. And I'm happy to blame that on Atlantic, even though it might have partly been Lupe's taste. His rapping talent never slipped all that far, and you're right, there were great moments in amongst the trash, but damn if I didn't TRY and give him a chance. But you'll never admit that, and I won't continue to bang my head against a wall. Let's just all be happy that he's rapping over interesting shit and not catering to anyone but himself now.

>Under the guise of "I expect more from him," which was
>just Nerd-ese for justifying a stupid double standard
>
>Both albums were "good" at LEAST
>
>And each had GREAT moments. GREAT moments.
>
>So his career has pretty much been spectacular, front
>to back
>
>And now he's just destroying everyone and changing the
>culture
>
>He didn't evolve.
>We did.
>
>
>

"Yes I see all the nummmberrs... I still root for the dreeeamerrs... I thank God for the dreeeamerrs..." - Mos

This is why the Lesson is full of stanky nerds.

Instead of saying what you all KNOW:

"Damn, Lupe is eons ahead of everyone rapping right
now."


You nerds say shit like:

"This is way better than Food and Liquor 2 and Lasers"

You can't bring yourselves to stop being dweebs and just
admit the facts.

Lupe just sank your nerd battleship and I'm LAUGHING.

I can understand people's case with LASERS, and I agree with your opinion. I think it's simply "convenient" - and frankly, lazy, to write off F&L2. He had a few average tracks on there, but to your point, there are at least 8-10 good tracks. I think most people that don't like either album simply got fed up with following his "storyline" during that time (e.g., label beef, the inner demons he was wrestling with).

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Between the loosies from the past couple years, Tetsuo & Youth, and this, Lupe definitely has a case as best rapper out right now. No one can do what he's doing. T&Y and PH are two of the year's best projects

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"I ORBITs the solar system, listenin..."

(C)Keith Murray, "

~
~
~
~
~
Days like this I miss Sha Mecca

I'd like to hear Lupe's explanation for that.
But other than that, this is a more a return to form for Lupe than even T&Y was. This has me even more hopeful for his post Atlantic releases. I'm only into my second listen right now, and it's dope. I don't have a fully formed opinion yet, but it's all sounding good right now.

--

"You can't beat white people. You can only knock them out."

It's not that difficult, as there is an entire generation
of really smart kids who have decided that college isn't
for them

And Google is routinely snatching MIT-bound kids right
from high school (its true)


And even kids IN college see it differently than kids
in prior generations....they are now simply leveraging
to find a way to their passion, rather than college as
an end in and of itself

See how easy that was?

Not very difficult.


>I'd like to hear Lupe's explanation for that.
>But other than that, this is a more a return to form for Lupe
>than even T&Y was. This has me even more hopeful for his post
>Atlantic releases. I'm only into my second listen right now,
>and it's dope. I don't have a fully formed opinion yet, but
>it's all sounding good right now.


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"I ORBITs the solar system, listenin..."

(C)Keith Murray, "

You who obsesses over the idea of "the lesson" to the point you can't come into a post without mentioning this "entity" that you yourself are a very large part of.
FOH.

And I'm well aware of the things you're talking about. That doesn't however mean that college is for cowards. Especially when Lupe is very much about Black upliftment and for many (not everyone, granted) college is an avenue to other things that they might not otherwise have access to. Does that make them cowards? No. And as you and I both know, Lupe is VERY intentional with his words, so I'd like to know what he was trying to communicate, not what the fuck you think, which doesn't actually address the question I had.

But like I said, I only listened once and that line really stood out. I didn't go back to the song yet.

You can get off my dick and go back to obsessing over The Lesson. Asshole.

--

"You can't beat white people. You can only knock them out."

He's a smart enough dude, can even be funny.

But he's painfully insecure. I don't know if
his mother didn't hug him, he didn't live up to his
potential, he was picked on a lot, or maybe he
had a promising athletic career fall apart....
maybe it's a combination.

Don't take it personal.

He can't think beyond agenda. He has no
concept of nuance or context.

Every lupe thread turns into this because
he can't stand that people are feeling lupe
again. There's nothing to fight about anymore
so he picks odd things to fight about.





He needs to make himself feel tough.

What does he call the lesson?

Wimps?

Nerds?

It's really everything that applies to him.

Notice that this internet tough guy never
actually talks about the music. Never.

He claims that's what he's about, but look
how many times he's in here talking about
The lesson?? Not a single music post.

It's too bad too because again he can have
great insight when he isn't acting like
an insecure sad teenager.

And he derails these threads acting like
a dweeb. He can't let the thread be about lupe
and his music. It has to be about orbits agenda
so he can feel like the toughest dude on
the net. It's sad for this place, sad for lupe,
and sad for him. I legit feel bad for him.

All this "bigger man" shit is for the birds.

Lupe is the best rapper on earth.

He's shitting on the entire galaxy now.

Y'all eating doo doo pop tarts.

All this "be classy" shit is soooo 2009.

He's the best and I'm gonna laugh and tell you
shit breath nerds to continue to eat doo doo.

Cry you little wimps.

Name a rapper you love?

Lupe is 300000X times better. It's a fact.

If you didn't want to eat shit you should have LISTENED
and not been a STINKY ASS NERD all these years.

These nerds got saggy tittays

I'm rubbing cum all in them

Sorry

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Just because he's black and doesn't make music that
celebrates the destruction of his race

I'm in

Lulz

Nerds

Eat shit you fucking dweebs

Think of your favorite rapper?

Lupe is way, way, way, way, way better.

And he doesn't make black genocide music

And he could beat you at Street Fighter.

Bwahahahahahahah

Sad?

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"I ORBITs the solar system, listenin..."

(C)Keith Murray, "

>
>Lulz
>
>Nerds
>
>Eat shit you fucking dweebs
>
>Think of your favorite rapper?
>
>Lupe is way, way, way, way, way better.
>
>And he doesn't make black genocide music
>
>And he could beat you at Street Fighter.
>
>Bwahahahahahahah
>
>Sad?
>
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>"I ORBITs the solar system, listenin..."
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>(C)Keith Murray, "

_________________

Lupe just took away people's right to even hate,
but he's been giving us an incredible career for a decade

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"I ORBITs the solar system, listenin..."

(C)Keith Murray, "

But its free

Not even on his website store

Oh well

SCHEMES is a banger, great way to end it.

Do people still pretend Food & Liquor & The Cool aren't marginal?

Lulz

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"I ORBITs the solar system, listenin..."

(C)Keith Murray, "

Time to get a new schtick. Yes, you.

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Checkin' Our Style, Return To Zero:

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