LupE.N.D. Announced!
November 3, 2008 by H20
When I heard Lupe’s last album The Cool, I knew then and there, and even now that Lupe was/is one of the best doing it. I was also almost heartbroken when I heard that he was retiring seemingly in his prime: his first album had critics screaming it was a classic, and it was so heavily anticipated it leaked a year before: think Tha Carter III, only worse: dude had to make a WHOLE new album, and even that was leaked about a month before. His second album didn’t leak early, and was given positive reviews, along with a good commercial debut.
Now, Lupe is prepping his final album. He originally described very favorably, stating: “After I put this out, people will be saying ‘Damn! Now you can leave”. That’s pretty bold, isn’t it? I mean, it was awful for me when I heard my first Jay-Z album, The Black Album, and then found out it was his last album. That made me spend the next three years looking through his albums and becoming the Jay-Z stan I am. But Lupe has only two albums out: there isn’t really enough there to look through, however good it is. Until now.
Lupe recently announced his final album, LupE.N.D., will be a THREE DISC CD. That’s right: three discs of music. Lupe’s last albums have averaged 18 songs on a CD, so that’s 52 songs in one album I’m guessing. That’s insane: to me, it sounds like something that Lil’ Wayne would do. I don’t know why, but I could see Weezy doing something just like that. The three CDs will be given names from the acronym E.N.D.: Everywhere, Nowhere, & Down Here. Originally, it was supposed to be a two-disc CD based on his song “Streets on Fire” about the end of the world, but I guess that idea was scrapped.
Of course, there is only one problem with double, or, uh, triple albums: they almost always contain large amounts of filler material which is a field day for critics who are forced to comb through over 20 songs and give a review. That’s over 2 hours of music! I remember B-Easy had to go through 30 songs of Tech N9ne’s Killer. It would be different if every song was done with intense care and was treated like a huge record, but not every song is. Hopefully Lupe will end his career with a bang, and show the world finally he’s one of the best.
I’ saying RIGHT NOW, no staffer needs to review that whole thing alone. We gonna need to break that up.
lol
Lupe is going a bit over board.
Intresting…
damn man lupe is real, the cool was that shit
This has disaster and delayed released-date written all over it.
Mark my words.
Well I hope this album is worth it. Damn 3 disc!! Thats a lot of music mane.
Dudes will try anything to go platinum these days!
Crazy Shit, Yet Somehow Exciting….
I’ll review the whole thing: i bet it’s at least a 4 star album.
Jesus. Finally Lupe!.
That’s some bold shit H2O! I wanna see this. I bet you quit or fall into a Lupe Overload Induced Coma after 26…. haha
Nah, I’d at least get to 40 before passing out. I never listened to a double album before besides BP2 and a little bit of Life After Death.
lupe is in my top 5….i think the cool was better than his first cd….
lupe doesn’t do it do go platinum. and he’s also not an artist who would put anything less of exactly what he wants on each disc. He doesn’t spit just anything over just any beat, you can tell he perfects each track he puts out. twilight zone was the song that made me realize how sick he was and since then he still can lay it down always. maybe artists who have discovered the vocoder and deep bass are key to top 40 are the ones who make music to go platinum. think about it
3 cds?!?
thats crazy
i love lupe and everything but i think thats a little much
@bigt….i luv lupe too but hey maybe he can be one of the VERY few artist who can make a triple-album and still have it be hot….i like it tho because im gettin alotta lupe material since it is his last album
@ boricua
yeah u right. he is one of the few to pull it off
but for some reason i doubt it’ll be his last…
i think he loves hip hop to much to leave it so early..
but who knows..
lupe is that shit i fuks wit da cool. this cd in my opinion will run shit.
lol h20 real i luk 4ward 2 readin his reveiw it i salute u n gud luck. Bt anywho i knw im RUNNING to cop it wen it released.