Lupe Fiasco - WAV Files - REACTION and DISCUSSION | ONE OF THE BEST TRACKS I'VE EVER REACTED TO.
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It's honestly sad how many people think Lupe is just that one rapper who used to make songs about skateboarding and rainbows. When in reality he is arguably the best lyricist walking the earth right now
I feel like a lot of us enjoy all the sides Lupe has shown us but one thing that people underestimated about Lupe is his pen skills and specifically his story telling. Most people don't want to look too deep into his god tier writing unless it's very simple and spoonfed like kick push. Lupe in general is underrated af and is a top 15 rapper ever no question.
@@dionb7584 hehe "Cool"
heard hes working on a sequel to the cool
The best.
@@manaulhoque6507 hope that’s true, i need that
Dude, the lack of props Lupe is given nowadays hurts me. I hate that the real ones don’t get the same shine as they used to. But they do in my eyes, that’s for sure
Hurts me soul my G
What a Ghetto Story
It’s songs like this which prove that Lupe is undoubtedly a top 5 lyricist of all time
And he’s not 5,4,3,or 2
Facts.
Facts af
He's top 3 minus 2
"my bones is why the beach is white" that line alone hits so hard when you think about it
I just got back from Tulum. Immediately started playing this song and yup that line hits hard.
"Conversations with the constellations... You were so busy trying to shine, you should've been trying to save us" hits different. Especially when you consider the different definition of modern stars (could be talking to hip-hop stars, pop stars, celebrities in general for not speaking up on many of the issues [racism and beyond] that are still around today). That connection of bringing a past tragedy and connecting it with the present to show that the fight isn't over is executed flawlessly. Lupe a Goat
My mind is blown. Like I'm aware that one meaning of this song is about Lupe's issues with Atlantic Records. Basically the artists under a big label are the slaves and the contracts/deals are the slaveships and Lupe is telling the artists to jump of the ship and do one of two things. Either find your way back to 'Africa' or stay in Atlantic (records) and bring down other 'ships.' Or some analogy like this.
However, I did not even think about the later verses when Lupe personifies the forest and the stars. That is amazing. But what could the forest refer too? Who are they that are in the chorus, cheering, supporting, and encouraging artist into joining these awful labels and accepting the scam record deals. Is it the audience or family or other media?
Excellent point. I felt and got this message when I listen too.
Great connection, well put.
Most underrated hip hop album of the past decade if not all time
Crazy since he was Grammy nominated for like every album he dropped before leaving Atlantic despite the fact that his releases after are way higher quality music.
Facts. I mean Fantano literally gave it a 7 (not bad at all) because he thought it was too all over the place and literally didn’t understand the concepts of most of the songs. If that doesn’t say something about this album I don’t know what does
@@slackstarfish8133 as a industry standard album he is right... there’s literally two halves second half being disjointed (not necessarily a negative)
So if he’s scoring I’m fine with a 7 because fantano is a clown anyway.
This is definitely unappreciated in terms of pure artistry. This is a higher art form. I wouldn’t expect needle drop to look past “traditional track listing”
It's so heavy... it's like three albums together. I can't even listen to it in one sitting. It's BRILLIANT.
@@MaximusTheChosenOne The whole album follows the theme of resurrection. Part I is the Longchains and Part II is his career.
This track never stops amazing me. Lupes songs like this and Mural just take you somewhere
In a later track in the album; 'Sun God Sam', Lupe adds another layer to the meaning of "Walking on Water, WOW WOW"... He says "Wow, like Pac using both hands
And his head is the O", as well as WOW being an acronym for Walking On Water. - Lupe really is the greatest at multiple entendres
Love Sun God Sam
I don’t get it. Please explain. I know it stands for walking on water but you lost me with the 2pac thjng
@@YardratZ Pac throwing up W's with both hands... and his head is the O.
@@thetruest7497 WOWWWWWW. And the America’s was known as “The West”. If that’s another entendre for Wav Files, then my mind is blown.
Sun God Sam is a quietly terrifying song (like much of his work)... If you know you know.
This album is a masterpiece, and this song is just one of the best ever to me.
Lupe never ceases to amaze, he gets better with age.
Excited for whatever he drops next.
Wav files more packed than most ppl's whole albums
This song is easily one of the best in the past decade of music
This song always brings a tear to my eye. Think about just the slavery layer here (not ignoring the others): chattel slave trade was so encompassing in its physical destructiveness and brutality that folks began to question the idea of nature being inherently good. How could the sea, the forest, the stars in the sky all turn their backs on us and not only let this happen but actively contribute to it? My God, you built all this allegedly for us and yet it was used to perfect the art of dominating/killing us. What’s a sunset or starry sky to a slave? What is beautiful about life if I am to be born into bondage? What does it even mean? How could you let it come to this? It’s not anger or even desperation, it’s something else. It’s heartbreak.
thank you for doing Lupe, he deserves more respect and coverage
If Kendrick had written this, it would considered a masterpiece, it is no doubt though
Lupe's music isn't as listenable to the general public. That's one of Kendrick's strong suits. Incredibly deep lyrics while easy to listen to (for the most part)
@@darkstar8196 Not tryna troll. Just tryna get a honest opinion bout my Dawg 💯 ruclips.net/video/FfTt-JALnCk/видео.html
@@darkstar8196Lupe can do this too, he literally won Grammys for his first few albums. Radio bangers, with deeper bars, like Kick, Push and Superstar. But he obviously chooses to write insanely lyrically shit instead.
Kendrick is honestly in the GOAT convo, but his lyricism is not on Lupe's level. No disrepsect to Dot, but thats just a fact.
This is my favorite track from the album. Truly a masterpiece! 🔥🔥🔥
Yooooo u finally got to it!!
Edit: This album will make u realize he’s the greatest lyricist ever if u haven’t already from other albums
I am a proud lupe stan since 2011, never missed an album year.
Go listen to autobots, 100s Chicago, slr 3.5, In from pharoh heights, unforgivable youth, Lamborghini angels, pu$$y, lupes verse on poor decisions, Tron, body of Work, go to sleep, super cold, Promise, paris to Tokyo pt 2, mazinger Z, and jean Grey
There are plenty more, LUPE THE GOAT
#FnF'Up
As he lists the slave ships and it just starts going on and on and on and on and on it becomes too much, you start questioning how humanity could possibly be responsible for atrocities like this; how could you put an entire group of people into bondage and steal their lives from them and subject them to this? And yet human history is littered with this shit.
Its staggering and it's awful. Lupe is brilliant.
One of the greatest, most important hip hop songs of all time. So glad you covered this. I went on a deep dive of each of the slave ships he mentions in the second verse. Learned so much. The song should be taught in high schools.
How does anyone even have the creativity to think about trees like people witnessing the horrors of slavery, and being okay with it by becoming the boards of the warships. “How could you be in the chorus of something so horrid” like it’s just such genius writing. I truly don’t think any rapper touches his level of writing, not just with his lyricism but with how he paints his ideas.
listen to braveheart this is almost a continuation of themes from
it.. lu been doin it for decades
10/10 track. One of his many 10/10 tracks
10,0/10
America used to advertise using Black babies as alligator bait. That line flys right past you in the song but it's there. Despicable stuff
What’s really interesting about the cadence/beat of his catalogue of ships verse is that it’s that of a coxswain, reminiscent of what you might expect on a slave galley. Additionally, the rhythm of the sea/waves also comes through, so just as the fleet itself might be described as a sea of ships, it also coincides with the water highways they traversed.
The use of both the lyrical imagery and the beat/meter to construct multiple layers of meaning is remarkable.
Lupe Fiasco is easily one of the greatest lyricists of all time and if anything his songwriting is more like Poetry than anything because of how layered and complex it is.
he says himself he steals schemes from people like emily dickinson so ya
I feel complete seeing this song recognized. Edit: "There's genius, then there's genius, then there's genius." Exactly!!!!
i love you jon for breaking down tracks and putting into perspective the meaning and message of such stupendous tracks. Other than your impeccable taste and appreciation for beautiful music, this is why I love your channel.
Just to add a whole extra enormous layer to this album, he's actively writing a book to it entitled WAVE. He's 12 chapters in.
I love his delivery too. Hopefully he drops some more full on albums cuz the dude just has a spot in hip hop that can’t be replicated. The wordplay is just on another level
Walking on water, WOW. The layers of meanings this song has is incredible
WAV Files is such a beautiful song
Finally someone showing love to WAV files!!🔥🔥🔥 One of my fav songs of all-time any genre
Go to a youtube channel called Lost in Vegas. They do a great job of breaking down this song.
@@markbrunache648 I’m actually subscribed to them lol. ngl I forgot about their reaction, but you’re right they’re great!
@@jakegordon3324 Not tryna troll. Just tryna get a honest opinion bout my Dawg 💯 ruclips.net/video/FfTt-JALnCk/видео.html
Been waiting for this!
This is track is such a brilliant piece of writing. The album itself brilliantly parallels Lupe's feud with Atlantic records to the strife endured by the longchains. JD I know you read all these and trust me when I say the only artist who can give you an album filled with songs like this is Ka.
|Ka - Descendants of Cain and Honour Killed the Samurai are both masterpieces|
YOOOOO the chills I got when this popped up! holy shit! let's go!
I’ve just booked tickets to see Lupe in Manchester in august and I’m so unbelievably hyped
Please lets get a Ka - Honor Killed The Samurai reaction going boys, anyone that agree just like this post and then comment the name of the album yourself, we are clearly in a lower number because Ka's fanbase is just that narrow but he's the only lyricist i'd put close to Lupe in term of raw pen, and I think he's way more emotional. I think Jon discovering Ka as the same time as the 200 000 subs of this channel would benefit everyone immensely, I don't know if I heard a verse that's written as perfectly as the second verse of Ours, that shit is flawless.
ANY Ka album, really. That stuff was tailor-made for listeners like JD. Descendants of Cain, The Night's Gambit, Orpheus and the Sirens, Days with Dr. Yen Lo... even his earliest work, like Grief Pedigree and Iron Works. It's ALL brilliant.
Second that!
This song is one of the best ever made, proves Lupe is a goat
Sheesh I'm a relatively new hip hop fan and haven't heard this album although I've heard of Lupe fiasco. thanks for putting me on
You need to check out Food and Liquor, The Cool, Tetsuo and Youth, and Drogas Wave in that order. His mixtapes are insane too
I always get goosebumps when listening to this song, incredible video Jon
Lupe Fiasco is the #BestRapperAlive - Nobody else even comes close. Tetsuo & Youth is one of the greatest albums ever.
That album is a classic
Ka is up there too
One of the greatest songs to ever exist. Any genre
This and Jonylah Forever are my top 2 from this album, amazing songs
This Album is so incredibly good and so slept on. No one was talking about it when it dropped. I picked up a physical copy the day it came out and it stayed on repeat for months.
I continue to stand by the fact that if Kendrick made this song and album, it would be heralded as the monumental masterpiece that it truly is and nobody will convince me otherwise.
Facts
You’re not wrong
He already said he jumped off the ship to leave footsteps in the depths. Who gives a shit what another's artist impact may have been to the white supremacist main stream.
This was my 2nd fav on this album only behind King Nas
Favorite song on the album 🌊
One of the best hip hop projects of all time! Great to see love being shown from us here in the UK, Jon never shying away from the difficult conversations. This tracks and album is criminally slept on. Reactions help to reach a wider audience and if not, well just good to see someone else as moved as we are - W.O.W (Walking On Water)
Lupe Fiasco is one of the best minds on this planet much less artists. Can’t tell me different.
Just naming all those ships. . .
SOBERING!!!
I get goosebumps every single time I hear this song. This is… beautiful. No other word does it justice.
might be my favorite hip hop song of all time.
Every time I hear the apologies by the Forrest, the stars, etc, my heart breaks
Thanks so much for this. I have never really listened to Lupe. And this really makes me Wonder what i've missed. As Soon as I Saw this i went and Listened to the full album. Cant wait for the full reaction.
hands down one of his best songs. and i still miss like half of what he says.
Nobody gets it like Jon does. We need to stick together and take a stand against the "all lives matter" crowd
I love Kendrick. But I can't even explain my respect and love for Lupe. Kendrick makes fantastic music. His voice, rhyme, etc. Are amazing. But he can't make a song like this. He just can't. I'll give lupe some corny pop songs if the rest of his catalog if full of this.. and it is. Goat
Lupe was forced to make those corny pop songs tbh
Strange how different people can view things, imo Kendrick is the only one who could go toe-to-toe with Lupe nowadays.
@@dabo150 Kendrick is a tier under Lupe lyricism wise, they don't play in the same court in my opinion
@@dadorage1695 yeah thats what i mean with how different we can see things. I personally would choose kendrick over lupe, but only by a very small gap. There for sure is no one else that could fit this pocket better than those 2 tho.
@@dabo150 Ka is a better lyricist than Kendrick too, i'd argue the Milo/Mach/Aesop/Billy Woods are better lyricists too
Glad your covering real hip hop artists. Lupe is definitely is one the best of the craft. Both food and liquors are so real. Underrated for sure
Learned more about slavery in this song than I ever did in school honestly. Lupe’s lyricism, talent and knowledge are second to none. Song left me speechless
I've waited for you to react to this song for a long time. Can't believe the day is finally here...
Great reaction as always. Slight point of correction though. That entire verse is just the names of slave ships. It was likely named after/came from Bristol England. Shout out from "New England" Bristol County, Massachusetts to be specific. ;)
Lupe slept on now a days.
I just discovered this channel, first the Dmx exodus review, and now this. Fuckin wonderful content. Great dissection of one of my all time favorite songs from one of my top 5 artists.
Been waiting so long for you to react to this song specifically
React to aesop rock none shall pass!
FINALLY😂 I’ve been waiting for this for 2 years
Lupe wrote his own mythology to comment on real history. Fuck.
In my top 10 albums ever, glad you’re reacting to it
You should react to Alan Forever. Im sure you'll be in awe again.
This track is amazing! I've been hoping to see you react to this since I started following your channel!! 😁
Gonna need to get that patreon now, this is definitely one of my favorite albums ever, need to see that full reaction
Lupe is the GOAT lyricist
I'd say either him or Ka yes
It’s not actually two distinct halves like people think. It uses a midpoint time jump. Midpoints in storytelling can sometimes change genre. That’s what Lupe has done with this album.
Cant wait to watch this on the Patreon page. This album is not from earth and Ive been begging for this reaction for MONTHS.
You gotta drop the whole reaction ASAP, one of my favorite albums of all time
Best reaction I've seen to this song so far.
Would love for someone to breakdown "Stronger" by Lupe.
You did a amazing job on the feeling of this. Respect 🙏
This is still one of my favorite albums to this day
YES JON DENTON FINALLY REACTING TO MY FAVORITE SONG
THANK YOU
This is one of the best reactions to this song on youtube. Great job
This album is top ten hip hop EVER. Its in my top 5. Lupe is different
Thanks, Jon. Thanks, Lupe. Edit: 10:00 perfectly said, Jon.
I’ve teared up to this song, it’s so surreal and beautiful and harsh.
This reaction was closer to literary criticism, and rightly so because this track is literature
He is the GOAT
Jon! I'm waiting for a reaction to the Body remix with E1 and the lot. Please bless us with one!
Walkin On Water (WOW, WOW)
LUPE FANS!!!!, checkout RUclips CHANNEL TIMESNUROMAN.....he made visuals to Lupe songs that will give a better understanding to the lyrics that may have gone over your heads. Lupe is Definitely one of a kind
This is easily one of the greatest songs ever made imo. it's such a shame no media outlet will give it the credit it deserves.
Armand Hammer & The Alchemist - Haram
W.O.W = Walking on Water . Lupe is so under appreciated
I literally let my patreon lapse bc it didn't seem like buddy was ever gonna do Drogas Wave now I gotta hop back in
I swear everytime I listen to this song, I just get into a trance and start having vivid images of everything he’s talking about. The slaves, the seas everything
Please don't tell me Drogas Wave won't be put on the channel...
Soon
Lupe is unparalleled
10:04 A masterpiece even on first lesson... literally lmao
for anyone actually interested in this topic Lupe speaks about you could look up the origin of the word "slave" and do a deep dive on that. might change your world view in a few ways
I mean that's not a solved thing. It comes from Greek, but it could either mean Slav, or a word that means like spoils of war. There is no consensus, the Slav idea was a consensus, in the 18th century, but it's not really any more. Plus I don't think Greeks, Germans, Hungarians and Turks enslaving a lot of slavs really changes much. It's Europeans enslaving other Europeans who weren't like them.
@@Bradley2806 wasnt it like a million slavs that got taken back to algeria by north africans and shit though, thats a pretty big number to not have impact on anything
@@makoto3212 No it was a million europeans in total in the barbary slave trade. A lot of which are from the western Mediterranean, but some as far away as Iceland. The Crimean slave trade was also going strong though and they were enslaving slavs. Crimea was a slave trading hub for a lot of history. The Crimean and nogai khanates sold into slavery at least half a million over about 300 years. Most of which were slavs. It also did have an effect. it's partially why Ukraine is so different to Russia, the Ukrainians were the ones being stolen by the Crimeans, so the Ukrainians of the region changed their lifestyles and became the somewhat nomadic Cossacks. It's also why the French outright conquered Algiers in the 1830s and why the American fought 2 wars against the pirates.
@@makoto3212 The Barbary and Crimean slave trades also happened way later, slavery was already called as such in England in the 13th century. The period where slavery got its name was even a few hundred years before this. This is the early middle ages, where raids by the pechenegs and cumans, raids by the Avars and Magyars, raids by the Germans, raids by the byzantines and raids by every other slav group against each other would be what enslaved the slavs. At that time slavery was more common in Europe.
The Atlantic slave trade involved 10-12 million, on a continent with about half as many people as Europe, and that's discounting the Islamic slave trade in Africa, which was also massive. It caused extreme changes almost continent wide. It stunted the development of Africa, it made the kings of Africa very rich but discouraged investment in anything bar war. You should look up how the Kongo Kingdom was absolutely changed by European contact, and how the Europeans encouraged societal changes that resulted in what it became.
Bro you know how long I’ve waited to see this?
And that's it that's all the lupe albums
Lupe, when he is in his bag, is one of the best lyricists ever. But when he misses, he MISSES. Lol that said, this album and track are both next level.
he has one mediocre album...
@@ryanbarber2945 I love Lupe but I can’t be biased. F&L 2 was mid at best, drogas light was trash minus three tracks, and lasers was trash minus 3 or 4 tracks.
He never misses lyrically . Only reason he has a couple mid albums is cause of the production influenced by the label
@@Javi808 only lasers good try tho
@@ryanbarber2945I have listened to those albums front to back multiples times before, so I still stand by my opinion.
You know a rapper destroys a song when they harmonize the ending