I love Tetsuo & Youth, but this review is really bad. Ignoring the awful design of the site, it feels like it was written by someone who has no idea how to actually review.
Let me start this off real proper like, and get straight to the point—BANGA!!!!
Horrible introduction. Just dreadful. I don't think I need to explain why. It's corny, unprofessional, and stupid.
As a true Lupe Fiasco fan, that only demands the best from one of my favorite artists, and one that has been tuned in since Twilight Zone, Switch, and Jedi Mind Tricks, I’ll have to say this album gets purchased and put on the shelf next to The Cool and Food & Liquor, instead of downloaded.
Did an editor even skim this? What a terribly written sentence. Too many commas, syntax is awful, really just amateur.
For years it seemed as if Lupe has been struggling to break free of the shackles of his record label, the pressures of fame and identity, and a part of his fan base that can’t stand change.
Ooh, metaphors. Maybe use a little more imagination next time, if Lupe really is "one of your favorite artists".
Ever since his third album Lasers there has been a silent chant in the background for the lyrical genius to return to his old ways, and by old ways I’m sure fans are referring to Fahrenheit 1/15 Part I & Part 2 mixtape version of the artist. Fortunately, for us true Hip-Hop fans, even the lyrical truth-spitting demon has to grow up and mature. Tetsuo & Youth is his maturation piece. From his abstract album cover, personally done by Lupe, to track concepts like the one painted for us in Prisoner 1 & 2, Deliver, and Adoration of the Magi he delivers us an entire work of art that even Hip-Hop can smile at.
"Us true Hip-Hop fans", huh? Talk about pretentious garbage."Lyrical truth-spitting demon" is corny, and again the syntax is all over the place.
Lets start with the sound of the album, which in this day and age, seems to be more important than the artist covering the track. Facts—If the beat ain’t bumping ain’t no body listening regardless if the artist is really spitting.
Using absurd absolutist/universal statements without backing them up at all? Bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off.
it doesn't.
Lyrical content, do we really need to address this? You know what for the sake of this article I will—bump it. It’s Lupe Fiasco set free and hungry, enough said.
Are you even taking this fucking remotely seriously? Not everyone is a Lupe fan. Not everyone knows about his lyricism. You're reviewing an album, not chatting with friends who all have the same taste in music as you. If you're using lyrical content as one of your organizing axes for a score, you need to fucking analyze the lyrical content.
Garbage review. Get fucked, whoever wrote this. Learn to review shit.