Best Posts: Why did Lupe Fiasco fall off commercially after Lasers?

  1. Trackz
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    Trackz BARCODE

    May 10, 2015
    I see some crazy talk in here in regards to Tetsuo & Youth. It was an amazing album.

    T&Y didn't attract the same audience LASERS did commercially because it wasn't meant to. Keep in mind, T&Y was being shelved by Atlantic Records until Anonymous spoke out about it.

    To you guys that only listened to the album once, how do you expect to fully digest or understand a Lupe project off of just one listen? If you simply just don't like it, that's fine. But don't judge him or the album off of one listen.
     
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  2. Charlie Work
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    Charlie Work Level 5 Goblin

    May 10, 2015
    He was selling a lot in the mid 2000s, a time when hip-hop sales were ridiculous.
    Then he had a hiatus and a comeback album with a catchy single.
    T&Y had almost none of this going for it and is also rather inaccessible.
     
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