Lupe Fiasco's "Rap Theory and Practice" Course Overview and Q&A at MIT (11.30.22)
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- čas přidán 29. 11. 2022
- Lost the first few minutes, my bad. Assuming and hoping MIT will upload this as well, but wanted to record and share just in case they didn't.
Lupe said the plan is for this course to be available via MIT's OpenCourseWare (recorded and free online).
The Q&A begins around the 44 minute mark.
Editing to add the official link: web.mit.edu/webcast/cmsw/f22/ - Zábava
“Rhythmic access to people’s souls.” That was a damn good one. Was blown away
Same!
3:25
Niceeee
Better than the one one of my old teachers used to use
"R*tards attempting poetry."
De La Soul also said this too, that means its true when you got other folks reiterating the same thing.
“I want you to Reflect Aggressively. I want you to Penetrate Subconsciously.”
R.A.P.S
fuckkk I forgot I was listening to Lupe fuuuuck
I didnt even catch that 🤦🏾♂️ wow
Wow 😲
Wow….😮😮😮
Damn...brother
1:01 He gives it away when he uses the words Reflect Aggressively Penetrate Subconsciously. Loved that detail
went over my head
I peeped to
Literally got that far and started typing something similar, then saw this. Us Lupe fans fuckin KNOW hahaha
Nigga throwing subliminal in his lectures lol that's hilarious
@@seandafny set the tone
Seeing this is so surreal. My high school English teacher wasn’t very amused when I wrote my final research paper on the positive influence of hip hop music. I remember citing lupe for his efforts on the cool album. It’s humbling to see him teaching a course at MIT about rap theory…Ohhh how the tides have turned.
You should email this to your old teacher
lame teacher alert
High tide rises all boats 🛶
@Oodles of Noodles yeah that too. We have a big problem with education in the US in my opinion. From elementary all the way up to college. We need reform.
This was a pretty cool comment to see. I did my senior exit project on the Positive influence of hip hop on American culture. My board of English teachers also turned their noses at my presentation. I concur about him teaching at MIT, its a beautiful thing.
"don't believe in writer's block" - arguably greatest lyricist of all time lol
It's not even arguable after tetsuo and youth imho
of course ernest is here haha
In all Ernest I go so Bernie
Not arguably, the greatest
broo I'm ur 255th sub. Glade your watching the lecture too!
You can’t truly teach something unless you’ve mastered it. Lupe. You’ve done it.
Teaching is actually the highest level of learning. The brilliant never stop
What Lupe said at 1:14:45 was SO IMPORTANT. I'm an electrical engineering grad student who also does music. One of my signal processing professors also does music and had a rock band and he's one of the best EE professors at my university because of how he explains difficult concepts. Even easy ones honestly. Just him explaining what functions are, he says "let's say you've a bunch of guys over here and you've got a bag of buddies. Each buddy can have multiple guys but each guy can only have one buddy. (x & y)" The way he explained discrete-time convolution (shark fins and box cars lol) was CRUCIAL in my degree because it's the first signals class you take and it's one of the hardest concepts and it's a reoccurring concept for most classes going forward. Every professor I had after him that had to reintroduce convolution taught it in such a way that made it more confusing and I'd always go back to the first professor's notes. He even related the Fourier Transform to equalizer sliders and it finally started to click. There's so much power in simplicity and stripping back the complexity to make things less overwhelming and more digestible.
I have been in practice of this ever since I learned the definition of "Concise". For some reason that word helped me to skim back on the sometimes, confusing, long winded, or complex wording and concepts in my lyrics and try to speak as simply as possible while still being Dope. Sorta like a Special Beam Cannon of lyrics lol but it, as you said, makes things a bit more digestible therefore enjoyable for people.
I’ve wrote every day for 6-7 years and always thought the same thing I’ve never experienced block an never will.
That wasn't really someone's daughter
✊
I was 14 when Kick Push came out and was a skateboarder and now this guy is teaching at MIT. Man I'm glad to see this guy finally got credit for how good he is he was dropping insane stuff since the first album.
Uhh.. he been had credit. The hip hop community and world embraced him a long time ago.
@@nonymous590 I think they mean more recently. Most people these days have been calling him crazy
@@JRoss911white people
Bro same wit me 🤣👊🏆 he dropped that shit when I was skating hella & it’s so dope to see him taking his knowledge & talents to levels we didn’t imagine back then haha
@@JRoss911 nowadays everyone's crazy to everyone, don't listen to other people. Form your own opinions
LUPE STANS gather here
🙋🏾♂️
😎=🤓
Barely listen to Lupe (I don’t know much of his music but what I have heard was fire), but I was recommended this video and this is as dope as the little bit of music I’ve heard
@@myyoutubeaccount4167 go ahead and binge .. check out timesnuroman page he breaks down Lupe tracks so you can understand the deeper meanings it made his music make more sense than it already did
RAPS: 1. Reciting Amid Poetic Structure 2. Reciting Atop Poetic Structuring 3. Revolving Around People’s Stories
This is somehow exactly what Lupe should be doing
this plus maybe Writing books. I've always thought he would probably switch to being an author, if he retires from rap (he already writes stories and comes up with interesting concepts with his music, so it just seems like the natural next step to me)
It's crazy to hear one of my favorite songwriters say writers block is a myth. I have always believed this with all my heart. Once you have your songwriting skills sharpened you simply cannot fail to write. It's like an artist failing to draw. It's impossible.
John Darnielle from the mountain goats also says this (paraphrasing) "There's no writers block, since writing is just a job. Have you heard of construction worker block or convenience clerk block?"
@@BanakaiGames Those are completely different things. One side is expressing yourself through art and the other is executing the steps of a much more straight-forward task.
Depends on your subject matter, you may be able to write about other shit, just not what you normally write about Lupe is someone that raps about any and everything. So of course he would feel that way.
Yea, he's right, you just gotta write until you start developing who you are. Narrating your life in lyrics gives you identity to someone you never realized you actually were. It's called self actualizing, and once you know you, then you have unlimited things to say. Ever notice how if you talk to someone who knows all your secrets, is supportive to you, and you feel good around them, then you feel like you can literally say anything without feeling like it's wrong to. It's because when you talk to them, you have a sense of who you are. It's the same when you pick up a pen and start writing. You develop skills over time. it's not about writing the best thing in the world. it's about being true to you, and developing your skills over time. So that you can write the type of things you wanna write.
Eminem said 99% of the stuff he writes Noone ever sees. Getting literally anything, even if it is completely unrelated on the table will get you out of that state of paralysis
There are no words for what I'm feeling about this. Hip Hop is so dear to my heart, and I'm more of a causal Lupe fan. But I definitely have him as the greatest pure lyricist of his era. It's always bothered me that his contributions to "the culture" get overlooked to a degree. Seeing/hearing rap be talked about in this manner literally created new neural pathways for me.
In a way, me too. Like his discussion of surprise made me look at things in rap a different way. Its not like the element is new to me or that Im not aware of its impact, but its purpose and use in the specific context of rap that I never really fully thought about. Like now I noticed that Lupe did the repetition break structure in Ms. Mural which ends with the surprise at the end.
For the 50th Anniversary of Hip Hop culture it would be great if ALL Universities, colleges and institutions of "higher learning" opened their doors so real practitioners of the culture can do exactly what is being done here. Lupe. Salute.
Jonylah Forever is one of the greatest songs of all time. One of the few songs that actually made me cry.
🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
RAP = Realizing Arts Potential was the first thing that popped in my head.
RAPS = Rhythmic Analysis of Personal Struggles
Beautiful.
Rhytm And Poetry
Dope
Who knew the contradict of micro-decision in accentuating the vowels of “behold” would win the hearts of millions and make millions? I’ll tell you who. Political campaign staff. Lol. And if you notice, Sade did the same thing in ‘Is it a Crime’ when she sung “my love is wiiiiider, wider than Victoria lake// my love is talllller, taller than the empire state.” She used pitch and breath control to objectify the width of a lake and the height of a tower. Music is magic mann. The next level is psy rhymes. Where an artist can literally paint a picture in your brain that doesn’t require any foreknowledge of the image.
26:46 Lupe definitely onto something here. A perfect example of the 'repetition-break' Lupe talking about here is MF DOOM's verse in the song "Great Day". In the verse he says:
Last wish, I wish I had two more wishes
and I wish they'd fix the door to the matrix its mad glitches
spit so many verses sometimes my jaw twitches
*one thing this party could use is more...ahem booze*
He uses repetition to train listeners to expect a certain word but then says something completely different instead. As a result, it's one of DOOM's most well known bars even today and practically guarantees a chuckle from your friends the first time they hear it, even if they don't listen to rap.
Lupe does it in Ms Mural too and its his most talked about track from the album he released this year:
Patron asks the Painter a question
Painter responds to question
Patron asks another question
Painter responds
Then at the end Lupe breaks the repetition by flipping it:
Patron makes a statement (responds)
Painter makes a request (asks a question)
Surprise:
Painter lights the patron on fire.
@@ImInYourBrains Are those the actual lyrics to the song? If not, I can't really tell what's going on there based on how you wrote it.
I'd have to listen to see wym.
@@you-naminetwork6060 no. The rap's lyrics are a conversion between a pateon and a painter
Honestly taking steps to bringing rap to academics is honestly a beautiful idea, obviously because it's "new" the way he's trying to encapsulate into a learning and teachable art may make it sound abit weird, but no doubt many of the things taught today in such details probably started the same way, so praise to this guy and people backing him
it was "new" like a decade ago. try again.
I would legitimately pay to watch him teach an entire semester of this class and really see if these students improve their bars lol
same bro lmaooo
I want to be a test dummy lol I'm sure they're all gonna be Top tier
Go to pendulum ink
I would rather care that people come out being more perceptive about the word choices in every day dialogue...as he pointed out a lot of our interactions kinda yearn to leave an impact...if we can spot that in everyday conversation we can avoid the bullshit and see truth...we may even be more impactful speakers and storytellers
@@brooklynmedina7676 the number of wrinkles in your forehead after a hot bar.
Interesting he started with acronyms because he has a few in his songs
LOVE - Looking Over Various Errors
HATE - Habitually Accelerating Terror Everywhere
BLOODS CRIPS - Beauty is the Largest, Obstacle to Obsess, Decorate the Sargents, Community Resistance In Progress
So grateful I can hear Lupe give Kendrick his flowers. Two of the greatest to ever do it
The Mind and Heart of this generation of Hip Hop. In my honest opinion. When he did that my heart skipped a beat. These two I am a FAAAANNNNN of. Salute to Lupe.
It's hard being a Lupe fan. Go to Harvard (or MIT) to be a Lupe stan 😤
Yessss!!!!!
🏆 you deserve this
Support lu at all costs. Love seeing him evolve
This was amazing
Lupe with the side missions
This is greatness right here i can really see him doing this for real 🔥🔥🔥💯 thank you for the upload 🙏🏽
20:55 i love it how he come up with that "Relationships, Associations, Parallels and Surprises" so effortlessly
damn. just when I thought I caught everything.
@Fallen OffTop LMFAO
Lupe never ceases to amaze me. I knew he was incredibly special when i heard 'Hurts me soul'. A true master of his craft.
One of my favorite songs of all time.
One of the best hip-hop songs ever made
Wow I have so much more respect for Lupe now. This is incredible and seeing him take his craft to new heights is beautiful.
Literally, one of the best videos on youtube. No lie.
14:30 minutes watching and I’m still locked in. There are endless gems for life in his lecture. Glad to see Lupe take things beyond the booth.
This is informative, Lupe is a true student and teacher of the essence. I'd like to see more breakdowns like this.
This is really fucking dope. Rap professor. Literally
Thank you so much for posting this
Students gave a beautiful meaning to rap. Lupe did good bringing the class together for discussion and learning. That was dope!
i stumbled onto this and sat here the entire hour and 20 minutes....this was incredible. thank you lupe
So happy I watched the whole thing. What a phenomenal person and teacher
I'm... speechless. This makes me proud, I'm amazed and glad to see Lupe on this level of platform. As far as he takes the artform, he deserves this.
I couldn't believe what I watched... Definitely the best representation of hip hop I've seen
“I majored in Hip Hop History: the evolution of rap - from turn tables to when the tables turned”
This was an amazing listen!
Thanks for sharing this! Thanks Lupe for doing this. Thanks for attending this! Amazing class.
I'm taking this class over here in a small town in the Indian Himalayas. INTERNET IS WONDERFUL
I absolutely love that Lupe plays Ur
This made my day on its own, no further questions
Lu would be the dopest professor I'm so proud of him this is amazing.
Tetsuo & Youth was a masterpiece in my opinion. My favorite track on there is Mural.
Free 99. Thank God for CZcams. Really Appreciate this Particular Service it’s a Rare Appearance Providing Service to us all.
This is phenomenal. What a treat to have. And watching this with captions allows you to see the poetry from how he speaks.
what a beautiful surprise this was to stubble into today! 20 minutes in and im fascinated
This is excellent! It’s great to see Hip Hop being embraced by more universities. Reminds me of when the artist Ohene Savànt taught a rap class at Temple University over two decades ago..
8:10 almost no one in the classroom got that one!
No "The Cool" fans
As someone in the room, I can confirm that reference gave me a good giggle
I was listening & thought I misheard. I stop and replayed the video. Since I am a new fan, I was proud that I caught the reference. I also had a good giggle.
YES SOMEONE UPLOADED IT I CAN’T WAIT TO WATCH!!! 🙏🙏
Watch till the end ❤❤🎉🎉🎉
I’m in class for rap right now
Been rapping for over 15 years
Thanks lupe
People always ask me what I’m doing with my life and my response is
I RAP
I WRITE
I DO A RARE FORM OF POETRY
I AM A ARTIST 👨🎨
I AM TRUE
18:20 VERY POWER
20:40 ELEVATE PEOPLE
history in the making, my man...
Very interesting profile picture you got there.
Child of ‘85.I love RAP and also think about it’s acronyms constantly. Love the evolution and constant conversation it brings. Shout out to Lupe, one of my favorite artist and deserves all the flowers.
Hes mine too. Him Kendrick and J Cole. Hes the mind of this generation Hip Hop. In my opinion.
Righteous Aspirational Poems and Scriptures
This is the kind of recommendation I appreciate the algorithm for...
Rhythm And Poetry :)
Rhythmic Artistic Prose
Reality Activated Powerful Speech
Radically Accepted Personal Speech
Reformed Aspiration Providing Soul
Reciprocallly Acknowledging Private Sensibilities
Reconciling Auditory Polemic Signatures
Recognising Audibly Perfect Signs
Ritualised Antediluvian Promises Solidified
God came to me and told me those ones
Thank you so much for uploading this!!
This was truly satisfying to watch. I'm an MC in the UK who also teaches rap in schools. It was encouraging to see that I teach some of the things he touched on in this lecture. Lupe has a knack for teaching for sure, thanks for sharing this. This has inspired me to work more on shape and details as well as surprises!
Make sure you study FBA culture and knock be another british knock off.
First time a professor offered to whoop somebody’s ass a means of communication!
Haha. Right. He ends the class asking if any one wanna box. hahaha!
Going through the comments and the interpretations of the acronym RAP/S that everyone has offered is so uniquely special
Thanks they got them from me.
What an excellent teacher. I need moreeeee.
THIS CLASS IS LETTING DOWN! He’s making so many puns and references NO ONE IS GETTING!!! I’m so hurt rn.
I never thought I’d see the day Lupe taught a college class about rap . Full circle moment
Murals was a college class😂
@@wb3213 LOL
so glad that he got this opportunity
Thanks for the upload
Really interested in hearing these lectures
I became a lupe stan during The Cool. Seeing him in this capacity is just...dope.
Loved that question about what surprises Lupe about Hip-hop...the commentary on devolving...it seems Hip-hop went from the dope corner spot with the best tasting food, but the maybe it wasn't as good for you and of the best ingredients but it was accessible and sustained and grew US....then it matured to a healthier set of ingredients, but the ingredients were locally farmed and still delicious and accessible...hit a couple of other levels...but has come to a point where it is fast food and the market is flooded with that kind of food that is no longer locally farmed, doctored via the science of marketing/influence and manufactured heavily...so much so that it takes that much more for those locally farmed products that have called upon the historical successes and culture to produce A1 material to be seen/heard/celebrated at a level to compete with what has the corporate/fast food chain accessibility to the masses...
Bro this was needed and appreciated! 🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥
what a legend, man. would’ve loved to be a part of this class!!
This is crazy that he is teaching a class about rap! So cool would be dope to attend this
I’m so proud of hip hop watching this
This let’s u know real hip hop can never die
It just found new residences
This is sooooooo good!
Wow!!! Super cool!! Thank you so much for sharing!
You absolute legend!! thanks for uploading !!
Dumb it down was a reference to his song clearly has no fans there 😢
Heat check: Negative 😅
In all fairness though it came out a while back.
Which song?
@@blvckthomhq Dumb It Down is a song by Lupe Fiasco released on his sophomore album The Cool. It was quite far ahead of its time (2008, I believe) and really exposed some of the stereotypical dynamics that are part of hip hop/rap culture in a scathing critique.
Personally, I believe the song was one of the reasons that "the culture" decided to make Lupe a bit of an outcast, not fully embrace him or staunchly
defend him as he went to contractual war with his former record label (Atlantic). Some people in my community have been conditioned to reject "nerd type" of conversation, points of view, thought provoking ideas or things that challenge what is perceived as cool (hence the title of the album that the song is on).
I've been a Lupe fan for a VERY long time & he has one of the most interesting careers & body of work from artists that got a major deal in the early new millennium. That album is in my top 5 all time albums in general because it has so many layers and complexities to it, but the song themselves can stand alone and aren't too difficult to digest. Some fansites and blogs, back in those days, called The Cool the hip hop version of The Odyssey, due to the epic poems and tales of the three characters contained within the work.
I could go on & on about Lupe and his art but, when or if you get the time, do yourself a solid and really sit back and give that album a listen. Lupe really changed my life when somebody handed me a copy of that album in 2009. I was a 19 year old smart nerdy Black kid that was starting to fall into the trap of stereotypes of what "real" N's were supposed to be about (materials, drugs, and as many girls as you can get) but a somewhat close acquaintance of mine from high school saw that happening & pretty much gave me that album...I guess in their own slight of hand type of way to try and save me from myself & that path. It really did and we stayed pretty close throughout the college years & into the workforce. She named me godfather to her firstborn and she is going to be godmother to my little girl who is due to be here in a couple months.
It's wild how a simple gesture, given out of care and concern, can really change a person's life for the better.
Best wishes to you & yours.
25 likes on this makes me lose faith in humanity
I literally thought the same thing. How do you take his class and not know any of his songs?
Dang! This is awesome!! :)
Brilliant collab. Lupe and MIT. Gucci and Adidas. Genius. Congrats
Crazy that two rappers Dee-1 & Lupe are @ MIT talking Rap & the art of it. Mind blown
Definitely gives me Gza vibes. I'm happy to see hip-hop being used as a platform for such education 🙌🏿
This is dope. watch to the end!
Wow! So proud of Lupe! This makes me want to go back to school. I would have loved to take this class. I've always loved his music, and it's fascinating and gratifying to see the academic world being exposed to it in this forum. This definitely helps to give more validity and credibility to rap music as an art form and an important member of the music world. I love this! Glad to hear Harvard is also embracing this concept. Hopefully, this will show up in more and more curriculums around the nation.
This was incredible.
That Lil B cooking dance went over their heads. I genuinely appreciated it #Basedgod
This was very insightful, Lupe really mastered his crafts.
I love this video thanks for posting!
8:11 Dumb it down is one of Lupe's Earlier songs haha, that was dope to hear em say that
You guys didn’t laugh at the Dumb it Down reference?!! His face was like he was proud of that one lol
“You going over nigggaz heads Lu”
@@BroBenjiBills Dumb it down
@@Mr.EFonz1 they telling me that they ain't feel you
@@SounDz206 dumb it down
this was needed
This was dope
I’ve never been a Lupe fan but I always respected his pen. This is SO dope to watch. 👏🏽👏🏽
I'm glad lupe is doing this to help give the general public and naysayers who like to hate on our genre some knowledge about how substantial and layered rap truly is / can be
Thank you for the upload
Forever grateful Lupe. Jonylah forever is a movie yet to be created…
It's no surprise to me he's teaching. He's been teaching on records since food and liquor! Bravo Professor Jaco.
I used to hate the word and idea of being "rhetorical" but Lupe did a great job of uplifting the term, especially within the context of Rap. If rhetoric can be done progressively, Rap is one of the best ways to do it. Rhetoric And Purpose; RAP.
I thoroughly enjoyed this class
This was great 🔥🔥🔥
Greatest lyricist of all time not up for any debates.
UUUmmmm no.. It IS up for debate, but he is RIGHT up there!!
I mean I wouldn't say that its not up for debate... but if someone was like "Lupe's the best", thats a super respectable opinion. Personally DOOM is my favorite
Him, DOOM, Daylyt, Aesop Rock.
@@LaughingGasFunny For sure, I'd add Andre 3000, Black Thought, Billy Woods & Nas to that
Aside from DOOM
“I will fucking fail you!”
I hear you in there Dee 1!!! Keep doing your thing.