My 3rd musically related thing I want to accomplish this year is not to make another album but to do something waaaay stupider...I want to unmake an album. I watched the ATARI E.T. documentary and got inspired. So here's my idea. For all you people who really hated my 3rd album LASERS for whatever reason in the universe I want you to send it back to me so I can destroy it with an actual Laser. You not getting any money back or an apology or anything like that. The fact still remains that a lot of people really loved LASERS (Me Included) despite the popular myth that it's one of the worst rap albums ever but sometimes the myth can be stronger than the truth. So yeah....if you have a physical copy of LASERS that you absolutely hate and wish for it to be rendered non-existent then you can send it back to me and I'll have it destroyed with an actual giant laser and send it into next world in spectacular grand fashion!
1. "Lupe sure changed his tune on that album" In response to Reply # 0
“One thing I try to stress about this project is, I love and hate this album. I listen to it and I’ll like some of the songs. But when I think about what it took to actually get the record together and everything that I went through on this record—which is something I can’t separate—I hate this album. A lot of the songs that are on the album, I’m kinda neutral to. Not that I don’t like them, or that I hate them, it’s just I know the process that went behind it. I know the sneaky business deal that went down behind this song, or the artist or singer or songwriter who wrote this hook and didn’t want to give me this song in the first place. So when I have that kind of knowledge behind it, I’m just kind of neutral to it like, ‘Another day, another dollar.’ As opposed something like The Cool, which is more of my own blood, sweat, and tears, and my own control. With this record, I’m little bit more neutral as to the love for the record."
The process of finishing “Lasers” he described with words one hates to hear from a creative artist. He “hunkered down” and “got through it.” He “went along,” he “acquiesced.” He “found some emotional distance from the music.” He “lost those aspirations.”
“I am a hostage,” Fiasco said. “I gave them what they wanted. If I didn’t, at the end of the day the album wasn’t coming out.”
3. "meh, seems pretty consistent/reconcilable to me" In response to Reply # 1
in his own words, he loved it then and he loves it now
makes sense that he would hate it less now...I'm sure the pain that went into it was a lot fresher back then
factor in the triumph he must be feeling after bouncing back from all that bs and I'm sure it's real easy to forget whatever negativeness he may have once felt towards it
shit I know I've moved on, lol, but lemme get off my stan shit...
4. "Fuck that...Lasers is dope to me" In response to Reply # 0 Mon Aug-31-15 07:13 PM by Anonymous
It's not his best nor is it my style but it's a cohesive piece and he kills the mic as usual.
And yeah...the hook to Words I Never Said sucked but..."Limbaugh is a racist, Glen Beck is a racist / The Gaza Strip was getting bombed, Obama didn't say shit"
5. "Seems like a weird/smart strategy. This is what is playing out:" In response to Reply # 0
- He's releasing music that an entire generation of rap fan hasn't ever heard anything close to, in an era where "lyrical" is J-Cole being 30+ and spitting high school prom rhymes (and I don't hate Cole, but it's true), and has firmly distanced himself from everyone else in the artform by many miles
- He's wildly overstating the negative response to 'Lasers', which people didn't hate nearly as much as he is suggesting (I think he knows this)
- Because of this, people will reach back, listen to 'Lasers' and realize that most of the complaints weren't necessary or valid Even if you don't love it, it was hardly worth the ire that it received...and is pretty fucking great in some places
- By doing this, he's essentially hitting full reboot. He'll almost certainly release something this year that will tear our souls apart again. He'll have showed contrition of the "blemish" on his record as an artist
Not really necessary, but it will almost certainly end up working in his favor
Some people are just from the future. Lupe is one of them.
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
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