Petition for the 100th time for Professor Skye to review Tetsuo and Youth or DROGAS Wave lol.

@bulletdancestorm554

24 күн бұрын

That’s gonna be a 5 hour video for Tetsuo

@Tragz

24 күн бұрын

AVAA Drogas Wave. One of the greatest works of art in hiphop.

@Tragz

24 күн бұрын

@@bulletdancestorm554 Week long series for Drogas Wave. Tetsuo is like an art show. Drogas is a whole Museum.

@mitchiegotmovesy7635

24 күн бұрын

I sign

@RskimB

23 күн бұрын

Yesssss

The harvard joke comes from Lupe rapping. "It's hard being a Lupe fan. Need to go to Harvard to be a Lupe Stan." AVAA

@eyahyo

23 күн бұрын

didn't he also teach rapping at Harvard or something

@KDLNBGH

23 күн бұрын

MIT but close​@@eyahyo

@Magnanimousman

23 күн бұрын

MIT and Yale. He works with Dee-1 sometimes who teaches at Harvard ​@eyahyo

@quiensera9947

23 күн бұрын

SLR 2

@LaSeanAbSOLute

17 күн бұрын

"It's hard being a lupe fan, go to Harvard to be a Lupe stan"

“Professionally accept, what ethically I hate” - Ms Mural

@Philosopher1118

23 күн бұрын

Honestly one of my favorite bars EVER. Period.

@paulm394

22 күн бұрын

@@Philosopher1118people say jayz has a bar for everything but I think of Lupe bars like this so often

There's an anime that combines hip hop and edo Japan with a soundtrack made by Nujabes called Samurai Champloo, highly recommend

@wumzum837

21 күн бұрын

one million percent

@godspeed9216

20 күн бұрын

He needs to watch this

@RGEtienne

19 күн бұрын

Nujabes, Fat Jon, Force of Nature, etc. Excellent music, excellent anime, perfect reference

@juelz8090

18 күн бұрын

I was looking for this comment and yes he needs to watch this one too after Afro

@oHawk

16 күн бұрын

I think those albums undoubtedly influenced the beats of this album, especially the 1st song.

Lupe also relates to Andre Dawson. Atlantic Records treated Lupe like a slave. One of the concepts on his Drogas Wave album talks about The Long Chains, which is a story about slaves jumping from slave ships for a chance to be free or, not die, but become spirits of the ocean who sink other slave ships to free their enslaved brothers and sisters. Lupe used slaves jumping ship into the Atlantic ocean as a metaphor for him jumping ship at Atlantic records, which lead to Lupe getting blacklisted from the music industry. Lupe walked the sea floor back to land and is currently free to make the art he truly believes in. AVAA

the iphone alarm wakes her up. song 2 was a dream. she went to sleep at the end of track one.

@evg0708

23 күн бұрын

Just for inside Amy Winehouse information to enhance the album for you maybe ..Amy Winehouse died in her sleep in bed from alcohol poisoning in real life, but was believed to be sleep by her bodyguard that checked on her..but she was really dead. So, that line about her going to sleep at the end of the Samurai song was very intentional by Lupe. Then resurrected and given ability to rap in Mumble Rap..Lupe pure genius 🔥

@derekhakeem8

23 күн бұрын

@@evg0708yo that’s crazy 💯

@X4Y7Z0

23 күн бұрын

@@evg0708 that means the alarm clock didn’t wake her up. She either snoozed it or canceled or never woke up 😢

@evg0708

23 күн бұрын

@@X4Y7Z0 exactly. And the way Lupe tells his stories through his lyrics, you can look at it either way…both ways are valid..depending on how you hear and perceive the lyrics/song.

@isaiahsimmons4102

21 күн бұрын

@@evg0708bro that’s deep af!!

AVAA - continued petition to review Drogas Wave and Tetsuo & Youth. The people need it Professor Skye

@jacksonjames6071

22 күн бұрын

I second this hard.

AVAA. So are we just going to ignore the upside down DMIZ album making an “A” following by the tape with the word “my,” the bottle of wine and the house? Love this man!

@eldonhill4840

21 күн бұрын

Whoa

@TiberiusTen

19 күн бұрын

we can deduce from this that Prof. Skye understands the Tetsuo & Youth tracklist inversion theory 👀

@MilesE94

15 күн бұрын

Tape? What tape?

Exceptional rappers like Lupe are called aliens - otherworldly ability.

@57kwest

22 күн бұрын

Extraterrestrial 🐐

@cO-og6ni

13 күн бұрын

@@MKing-fy6hg Lupe, MF Doom, and Aesop are my favorite artists ever, but please…not even close. If you ever do a deep dive into great literature, take just the first 3-4 pages of Paradise Lost for example - you’d spend hundreds of hours and would barely scratch the surface. You’d have to count the syllables of each line as you read because when Milton breaks iambic pentameter - it’s for a specific reason or allusion. The layers go on forever

Thank you for this video. I have always been a fan of Amy's. She was the queen of the 00s British indie music wave and one of the only female performers of the time who showed a complicated and honest portrayal of the feminine experience. She was a real person, flaws and all, not a character or an alter-ego. Amy was hip-hop. The most prominent hip-hop artists at the time were in love with her, and they truly considered her a friend. She's probably most publicly known for her friendship with Nas and fun fact, they share a birthday. We don't talk about Amy enough. It's beautiful to see Lupe (and you!) honor her in this way. AVAA.

Cowboy Bebop is definitely the anime to watch to get into anime. The entire series is based off fusing Westerns and Jazz music and features incredible music. Then you can watch the series by the same producer/ director samurai champloo. This series concept is combining samurais and hip hop music which works better than you would imagine

@Regalman

3 күн бұрын

but people like you are mad about the Yasuke thing but Japan has been copying Black American culture for over 40 years now.

@abzeromusic

3 күн бұрын

@@Regalman I have no idea what you're talking about to be honest

I love that this video is twice as long as the record 😂

@konLVdon

19 күн бұрын

rap is lossless data compression

It's harder to be a Lupe fan... go to Harvard to be a Lupe Stan. He's not saying that he's harder, it's just harder when it's in Lupe's hands... AVAA definitely check out SLR2

AVAA Lupe is my favorite artist and I always appreciate his art more when you talk about him. I hope you cover his earlier works someday

Wow this is truly incredible, I am working on a breakdown of one of the tracks right now and had no idea that Amy Winehouse wanted to go into rap!

Hey Prof, AVAA as always. Thank you for never shying away from discussing the output from artists that won't get as many clicks or views. Also, as an Aesop Rock fan you should check out Lupe's discussion on why and how people should listen to Aesop Rock. It's about 40 minutes long, and it's awesome.

AVAA Outside interpretation: Lupe has been very very vocal about how he wants to keep rap shit rap shit, since he lives in Chicago and everyone is dying based on bullshit rhymes. The first verse takes place after the battle, where everybody is in the postglow except for the loser, who demands to go outside and fight. Second verse is the loser has gone outside, and Lupe is talking to people like "would it be better if my rhymes were shitty so that he didn't take it a certain way? If I let him win would he just have given me advice on being better after the battle?" Third verse, is the loser coming back and stating that they really do want to fight despite having some time to cool off. ON FAUX NEM off Zion and his explanation for dissing Royce are the decoder.

@mitchiegotmovesy7635

23 күн бұрын

Man I didn’t get that at all lol, I gotta check it out again

Incredible analysis. This may be the most well thought out rap album of all time? Perhaps one of the best works of art ever?!

AVAA Thank you for digging into this. A special note as a Black American, you're hitting on the triumvate of our consumption as a culture: anime, martial arts,and Westerns. Freed civil war vets were the original cowboys so we've always been drawn to it. Afro samurai is a Black revisionist take on anime and westerns. Edit:this is why we call Lupe a ronin, hiphop has tossed him aside for glorification of gang life, which is a big reason Lupe feels a type of way about Kendrick.

@gabehere

23 күн бұрын

Let's be real, it wasn't the glorification of "Gangsta Life" that threw him aside. It was Atlantic and that awful Lasers album. Kendrick doesn't glorify gang life either, he's just way more accessible than Lupe

@theAttris

23 күн бұрын

​​​​@@gabehereThats because the culture called lupe weird and they saw no return on investment. And yes kenny does, he has not grown up in his lyrics at all, he's continuing the cycle of, oh well, this is life, just live it. Lupe's F&L2 is literally the exact opposite of that mentality, peaking in ITAL Roses. but really, the more I go back and listen, I think Lupe just sees him as a rip off, listen to Just Might Be Okay and then Alright, or Tetsuo and TPaB song for song.

@KJango804

23 күн бұрын

@@theAttris You know i thought i was the only one who felt who likes kennys content but feel like I keep being drug into the same cycle. He doesn't bring you anywhere or teach just cycles these thoughts that are already had. Its like he's using homonyms and synonyms to keep regurgitating the same thing. And when tpab and T&Y lupe said they mirrored each other.

@theebronks

22 күн бұрын

​@@theAttris that's a very strange takeaway from Kendricks music. his albums are consistently about interrogating the environment and culture he was born/raised in, reconciling the positives and negatives that come from it. Mr Moral is literally about escaping negative cycles so claiming kendrick in any way perpetuates cycles isn't a valid reading. I'd argue that Lupe is much more of a misanthrope as his music rarely offers tools for improving the current state of the world or culture that it discusses.

@djnes2k7

20 күн бұрын

⁠@@KJango804you don’t have down play Kendrick to justify your allegiance to Lupe

So well done. Great review!

This was incredible! Instant sub!

Good work sir!! Subscribed immediately!!

Hay Doc, look at the album as a comic book, 1 story. 1. Samurai - lupe (samurai) chooses student Amy (student). 2. Mumble - Amy gets magical rap skills. 3.Amy shows off new skills. 4. Samurai refines students skills.( 3rd verse is a combination of bars and knowledge)5. Amy shows off new skills. 6. Amy scopes out a battle. 7. Amy challenges a rapper to meet him outside 8. Amy/samurai combine and spit 🔥. Listen like that once and the songs will fill in the blanks...

I’ve never heard of you, randomly stumbled on your video and your passion for art is infectious. Ava

AVAA this might be my favorite analysis you have ever done. phenomenal work 👏

AVAA the passion with which you breakdown these works of art, inspires me to write more frequently as a rapper. Thank you!

Neon Genesis Evangelion. The anime equivalent of Lupe Fiasco in terms of things to dissect.

This is an amazing review, thanks for doing it! Was so hyped to hear you watched some anime for it! We appreciate you very much professor!

What a gem!! Easy subscribe, great content sir!

AVAA I love your contributions, the effort, and the passion you put into these videos. I appreciate you as an educator, who undoubtedly inspires and evokes critical thought and passion in others. My sincerest of thank yous. I've been a fan of Lupe my entire life, and it brings me so much joy to see him recognized and appreciated by others. Much love Professor Skye.

Was almost as excited for your review of the album as I was for the album itself. Thank you for helping us understand and appreciate Lupe better.

Professor Skye, i have recently discovered your channel and i find your overall perspective on art, specifically hip hop, to be extremely interesting. I would like to suggest that you do a live Q&A to engage with your audience, as your insights inspire many questions. Thank you for your open mindedness and dedication, cheers

The long videos are fire, ima download this for my bus ride tomorrow because I don’t have service

Been a fan of Lupe since Food and Liquor dropped. So fun to listen to your analysis and appreciation of one of the most under listened to, undervalued rappers of our generation. Found my way here through the Kendrick beef, staying for content like this. AVAA

Outstanding stuff thank you 🙏🏾 ❤

AVAA! im always fascinated by your abilities to evoke an emotional response in the viewer (or just me, maybe) with your narration, this video brought me to the verge of tears now i gotta listen to this album!

Your opening statement drives home how fun getting a fresh look at art with no preconceptions is. I stopped looking up Lupe lyrics after 2015, now regret listening to singles before full release.

AVAA PROFESSOR SKYE ON ANOTHER LUPE REVIEW LET'S GOOO!

Best reviews on KZread Avaa

Great video! Glad this popped up on my recommendations. I’ve been thoroughly enjoying Lupe’s album and didn’t end attempt to understand there was a concept behind it. Easiest subscribe of my life. Currently at the “Rest in peace to art” segment of this video and perhaps this is a dumb question since I have yet to explore your channel, but have you heard art is dead by Bo Burnham? Bo seems right up your alley so I’m sure you’re well versed, who knows tho. First one but I am confident commenting AVAA!

I love you content prof much respect from mosi oa tunya 🇿🇲 africa. May god bless you and your success

AVAA. Great breakdown sir! I'm now inspired to pick up that book on art history and also get into anime/Afro Samurai. Thank you for your service 🙇🏾‍♂

AVAA. It's nice to see a reactor put the work in to really appreciate the art. You are one of the few, and your voice is appreciated. Anime wise to follow-up Afro Samurai I recommend Ninja Scroll, Samurai Champloo, and Cowboy Beebop. Sincerely, a fellow over educated nerd.

AVAA. Finding your channel is still one of my favourite things to come out of the Kendrick and Drake beef. It's awesome to have someone who appreciates and understands hip hop so well analyse a Lupe album. I hope you find the time to analyse Drogas Wave and Tetsu and Youth.

I’m so happy I came across this! This video is very well done! I Love Lupe Fiasco, and this album awesome! Similarly, it made me look into Amy Winehouse a bit more as well. Please do a video on Tetsuo & Youth! 🙏🏼 🙏🏼 🙏🏼

I feel your love main man. I appreciate your contribution to deconstructing the art form of Hip Hop.

“Dad was the black Mas Oyama Karate stance, put hands on the brahma, do not cook I remember the boiling pot from which the rock took.” The first time I heard this scheme, I stopped what I was doing, sat down and had to ask myself who I’m kicking off my Rap Mt. Rushmore to make room for Lupe. That Oyama bar is crazy, but the whole “brahma” to “the rock took” scheme is a crazy double/triple entendre because Dwayne Johnson’s wrestling name is The Rock, his other nickname was “The Brahma Bull” and his catchphrase is “Do you smell what The Rock is cooking?” Lupe is a genius.

My first time on this channel, I'm glad i stumbled upon this!

Should’ve used the House EP as the the house for your joke in the background. But I loved this review!! Thank you for doing all this research for us

AVAA - Amazing to see some love for Welcome to the Terrordome

Had no idea Salaam Remi's career went far that back, make sure you check out his collab with Black Thought if you haven't (streams of thought 2)

Good album. Just listened this morning.

Lupe brings so much closure to Amy's career as someone who found her music after she passed - AVAA Skye, brought all the levity I was hoping you would and did a great job cutting through the concept

@matthalsey7808

21 күн бұрын

He’s trying to profit off of her legacy did he not kniw she was from the uk, she would of never rapped like an American, he needs to be sued by Mitch for this, how dare you insult us English

It’s been like a day since the album dropped and somone already made an hour long video essay 😅

After releasing DROGAS WAVE, Lupe does say that he feels like his newfound purpose and direction is centered around the concept of rebirth. From Tetsuo & Youth, DROGAS WAVE and now Samurai, I'm definitely starting to see the pattern.

You got me hooked all the way through the video.. your story telling and “dad jokes” are top quality 😅 I really do appreciate your effort and how much you invest into giving us AVAA 🔥 I know if Lu saw this video he would appreciate your work as well 🫡 much respect Prof

Always loved Amy Winehouse growing up. Pure artistry. Passion in every performance ❤

incredible analysis and I'm only half way thru!!!!

Professor Skye's Anime Review coming to a channel near you!

AVAA! Definitely scope out Samurai Champloo if ever interested in checking out another anime. Thanks for the great content you produce!

AVAA very well put together review. I really like this album

Highly suggest Samurai Champloo. Also hiphop inspired samurai, but the story telling is probably more your vibe. I watch a lot of anime, but i dont think there are so many beautifully told biblical stories in any other anime. You would have a field day

The end of the video got me slightly moved. Thank you.

excited to see professor skye at the next anime con in full cosplay debating best girl

AVAA. Enjoying the breakdown.

This was excellent. Please review the Blu & Evidence album dropping this Friday. I got an early listen and it’s dark and honest in a way we don’t see very often.

The Tardis refers to Doctor Who and ties to the "to ask your doctor, 'who's Wasalu" line at the end of the verse

AVAA, another incredible project from lupe, also, conductor and boldy james released a great album! Hope to see a review if you like the album

As soon as I read the concept for this album I thought that we need the professor on this ASAP AVAA

Hope you'll review the previous Industries album! I love it

I think the lyric "the boiling pot from which the rock took" is a reference to his dad. His dad challenged his students to take out a rock from a boiling pot of water at his dojo but they couldnt do it. So then his dad did it. I can imagine that would leave quite an impression on a young Lupe and everyone else to be honest! A beautiful overview, going to go and buy me an art history book. Thanks.

AVAA . As stated in other comments, I also recommend Samurai Champloo. The music for the series was made by Nujabes, Fat Jon, Tsutchie and Force of nature.

AVAA.. more Lupe album breakdowns please. Especially T&Y

@romeokilo4535

20 күн бұрын

forward & backwards.. wink wink

AVAA 36:57 To jump onto the topic of using a single word with multiple purposes in the line, although maybe slightly adjecent (idk I'm not that much of a lingual nerd), on the last track of DROGAS WAVE Lupe does something that I think is one of the greatest sequenses of lyricism ever done. Don't wanna spoil it though...just tease a bit Not only does he do use a it as a double, or a triple purpose, but a quadruple purpose. Part of it is using this spot to transition between two end-of-line rhyme schemes which sound nothing alike. Hopefully this assists in getting a DW review through annoyance of not knowing. And it is already legally bindingly documented through the top comment that Skye is aware of how many people want it. And a professor surely wouldn't cheat and skip to the final track... PS, listened to review live yesterday, wrote the comment then re-listened again to find the timestamp to add...and holy shit does the universe overlap in insane ways sometimes (still no spoilerinos)...revisit that timestamp after listening to Mural JR...

Can you do a video on the new NxWorries album?

AVAA another reason to review Lupe Fiasco's Drogas Wave. He did two portraits on the album the tracks"Jonylah Forever" and "Alan Forever"

The one artist I thought of when listening to the album was Substantial

@milessmiles9289

23 күн бұрын

Noveliss another one. Both great.

Tardis is from Doctor Who - also about time travel. - Nerds

Welcome to the Anime fold, Skye! Definitely check out Samurai Champloo when once you've finished Afro Samurai - it also blends Hip-hop and Japanese history. Merci et allez Les Bleus!

AVAA. weird question but, do you have a sort of "reading list" of like, your favorite/best books ever? i'm a younger hip hop fan and love your reviews, and i'm looking to read more but have no idea where to start lol

I learned a whole lot on this one. Amy Winehouse, Battle Rapper?! Did not see that on the menu. AVAA

The amy winehouse in the video background 🤣

18:00 there was a point in time where Lupe met Nas in the studio (pic was posted on social media) and Lupe was trying to ask him if he wanted to be a part of a project he was working on. As I listen to this review, I suspect this was it and it makes complete sense given the ties you’re describing - shame it didn’t materialize

You should check out Nickelus F’s “The Specimen”

AVAA 🔥🙌🏽

AVAA.. What's the last A for? Awesome Videos Always 🤔

AVAA, if you want another anime recommendation with the same vibe of Afro Samurai, be sure to check out Samurai Champloo

@tjmk1257

24 күн бұрын

Samurai Champloo is the perfect mix of early Lofi rap sound, beautiful animation and crazy goofy action, and a good story... Lupe would recommend.

AVAA Hilarious that a 30 minute album made you get into Amy Winehouse and anime just to understand it better

Avaa - Any chance of getting your courses online?

The thing with ox is that they scrape their feet before charging head to head with another. The imagery he put in there stopped me in my tracks. AVAA prof, Mike Eagle just came out with a project as Previous Industries with 2 other artists.

As far as intro anime that lean into hip hop soundtracks or more jazzy vibes, Samurai Champloo and then Cowboy Bebop would be great watches after you get through with Afro Samurai if you find yourself craving more anime

AVAA: like how you have a wine and a cut out of a house in the back !!

Where can I watch this Lupe Skye interview?

pharaoh height 2/30 review? I think youd have a blast with that.

When you got into talking about Westerns and you said Spaghetti Western, you answered a question I had about another Lupe Fiasco song called Mob Deep, where he says Spaghetti West. I knew he was talking about the West side of Chicago, but i was like why the hell did he call it Spaghetti? Now I know. Thanks lol that song also goes through different cultures if you catch it. Give it a listen if you haven't already. AVAA

Tesuo and Youth 🔥🔥🔥

AVAA, there is another layer to the Afro Samurai thing: Kurosawa was often inspired by western ideas (for example Yojimbo was inspired by The Glass Key), so the song is an American inspired by a Japanese show inspired by Italian films inspired by a Japanese filmmaker inspired by Western arts!

AVAA your students must love you prof,have you listened to any REN a uk artist?

@professorskye

23 күн бұрын

Will check him out

AVAA - interesting angle to the cultural exchange/appropiation is the use of a samurai as a figure. When looking at contemporary examples of this exchange between the US and Japan, the early 00's feel like they planted a seed to combine Kurosawa's style of samurai cinema with chinese wuxia; Kill Bill is the clear example where many things sprouted much later with John Wick, Monkey Man, Nobody all combining the idea of a "ronin" with the choreography of something like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. This exchanged back to japan in the manga sphere with Fujimoto's Fire Punch and Chainsawman and Hokazono's Kagurabachi; all of which is interesting to see that Lupe cuts the line of inspiration with Afro Samurai, Samurai Champloo, and Samurai Western; all works that coincide closer to when her two albums were in development, and before her death. This alongside the beats feeling closer like a Wutang project make it feel closer to making Lupe succeed at making this feel like a Winehouse battle rap album; in its beats, their lyricism, but also in the cultural sphere it would have existed in.

No way you got to interview Lupe! Is there anyway I can watch this?