You can enjoy this album at a surface level, but knowing the concept adds so many layers to it. The primary concept is based on a voicemail that Amy Winehouse left on her producer’s phone. She talks about how she can’t stop coming up with battle raps, and how she’ll battle anyone because she’s a Samurai. (You can find the voicemail on RUclips. The chorus on Samurai is a piece of her message verbatim). In addition to that he weaves in his own real life journey as an artist since it parallels the main concept. On the song Samurai, he’s painting a portrait of Amy, and at the end, she goes to her friend’s place, grabs a tea, and falls asleep. (In real life she died in her sleep of alcohol poisoning. On Mumble Rap, she wakes up with a song in her heart, but he goes back to tell the story about the dream she had where she met someone who caused her to be possessed with raps then won a rap battle. Every time she opens her mouth, raps come out. In the beginning she’s just mumbling raps to herself. So, the chorus isn’t a parody of mumble rap, it’s about what’s happening to her. At the end her alarm goes off, and unlike real life, we know she wakes up because of the beginning of the song. So he resurrects her thru this song. Cake is her actual first battle that she wins. The rest of the album is about the ups and downs of her and him being artists. He merges the two stories on Til Eternity.
Yeah man. Hope cake has grown on you by now. It’s supposed to sound disorienting bc in what crazy world would Amy be still alive and rhyming on the level of Lupe hahah Also feel like it’s supposed to represent winning a rap battle being even more intoxicating than alcohol for Amy
You can enjoy this album at a surface level, but knowing the concept adds so many layers to it. The primary concept is based on a voicemail that Amy Winehouse left on her producer’s phone. She talks about how she can’t stop coming up with battle raps, and how she’ll battle anyone because she’s a Samurai. (You can find the voicemail on RUclips. The chorus on Samurai is a piece of her message verbatim). In addition to that he weaves in his own real life journey as an artist since it parallels the main concept.
On the song Samurai, he’s painting a portrait of Amy, and at the end, she goes to her friend’s place, grabs a tea, and falls asleep. (In real life she died in her sleep of alcohol poisoning. On Mumble Rap, she wakes up with a song in her heart, but he goes back to tell the story about the dream she had where she met someone who caused her to be possessed with raps then won a rap battle. Every time she opens her mouth, raps come out. In the beginning she’s just mumbling raps to herself. So, the chorus isn’t a parody of mumble rap, it’s about what’s happening to her. At the end her alarm goes off, and unlike real life, we know she wakes up because of the beginning of the song. So he resurrects her thru this song. Cake is her actual first battle that she wins.
The rest of the album is about the ups and downs of her and him being artists. He merges the two stories on Til Eternity.
Wow.. thanks for the time and effort explaining the concept and putting that summary together. Gonna have to relisten with that in mind. Dope concept.
Yeah man. Hope cake has grown on you by now. It’s supposed to sound disorienting bc in what crazy world would Amy be still alive and rhyming on the level of Lupe hahah
Also feel like it’s supposed to represent winning a rap battle being even more intoxicating than alcohol for Amy
Produced mainly by Soundtrakk.. phenomenal job.
actually lupe has two songs called outside
that's why the song is called outside(2024)
the first one is a part of singles he released #aptmc
Thanks for clarifying that.