DJ Moondawg & Lupe Fiasco - Before There Were Lasers

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01 - This Is For My Niggas Full Version
02 - Freestyle I
03 - Street Stories
04 - Bottome Of My Heart Unreleased
05 - Gangsta Up In Here
06 - Cold Out Unreleased
07 - Freestyle Ii
08 - Tic-Tic Unreleased
09 - Fire Unreleased
10 - Freestyle Iii
11 - Flash My Watch Unreleased
12 - Freestyle Iv
13 - Accept The Troubles
14 - Could Of Been Unreleased
15 - Bonus Girl Talk Remix Unreleased

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zameltzer1's picture

FNF UP!

gotta love lupe. Not sure about this mixtape. looks like a lot of freestyles which isn't alwyas my thing personally.
WhiteTs Js N Kush's picture

Jedi Yoself Nigga!!!

Nigga should use the laser on himself for this shit. Another episode of "When Nigga's Think Too Much Outside the Box" shit.... J's(check), white T(check), Kush w/any designer jean(check)......Yup, Im reaDy 4 yOu Hos n0w
Mark Waldo Ward's picture

How come people get on Rawse

How come people get on Rawse for being a fake drug dealer, but no one calls this cat out for being a fake ass skater

WELLLLLLLL..........

Mark Waldo Ward wrote:
How come people get on Rawse for being a fake drug dealer, but no one calls this cat out for being a fake ass skater
To be brutally honest my nigga because most people who listen to hip hop dont care about skating and these are the words of a NYC nigga living in Atlanta
Mark Waldo Ward's picture

To be brutally honest most

To be brutally honest most people who listen to hip-hop don't care about cocaine kingpins either. Check my man Pimps interview on your Atlanta station I forgot the call#, but I do see your point!

Your joking right.

You do know his manager and business partner got 44 years for selling drugs. Lupe has more street cred than Ross with us in the know. It was a miracle he wasn't indicted. If he was running around talking shit like Ross he would be doing 44 himself. You better read up on Lupe. He has stated he used to skate. What he did was realize an untapped market. The skateboarders don't have a rap theme song. That's takes a genius.******** These types of moves take a Boss. "While Patton was found guilty of the heroin possession, prosecutors failed to establish a direct link between the drug trade and his involvement with his record label." ************When does this ever happen. Especially after this. ****" Prosecutors claimed Patton had become one of the biggest drug lords in the Chicago, Illinois, underworld, and used the money he earned from record deals to buy and sell heroin. Fiasco - real name Wasalu Jaco - was called on by the defense to testify at the city's Cook County Court last week, after investigators obtained telephone recordings of Patton talking to the hip-hop star about what they believed to be the preparation of heroin. Fiasco denied the discussion had anything to do with drugs and was actually in reference to the mixing of music tracks. " ***** Like I said. If Lupe was running around telling on himself he would be doing 44 right now. You better recognize game when you see it and a genius when it comes to this music shit. ****************Assistant Attorney Patrick Coughlin says, "There is a large amount of money that he received from the sales of heroin. And he was able to start up a record company."**********http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/06/05/lupe_fiasco_s_business_partner_sentenced
HRFinest's picture

LLLLSSS!!! He took yall to

LLLLSSS!!! He took yall to church on that 1. LOL
rIChsmONeys's picture

the truth

blackrome is absolutly true. and if 'the general' patton was tried in a smaller court, lupe WOULD HAVE gone down with him. lupe got "lucky" that a drug prosecutor was trying the case and they go for big time, not no one year and shit like that. and all this talk about lupe not being a skater is bullshit. ive seen it... lupes a real dude. smokes and kicks it with all of us hometown dudes. no need to g-check, hes got his pass. big ups big homie for bringing the truth in this bitch. and bigs up to lupe for being one of the few real niggas in the music game
corndog's picture

About time.

Finally, someone on here posted something with the slightest effort to reference.-R.I.P. Guru (Gang Starr)-

T. Kennedy did call him out on being a fake skater

the one problem is, I've heard all Lupe's songs and he never claimed to be a skater! He claims to be a dope MC, and that he is. I think w/ "kick,push" he was trying to pay homage to a culture he loves. Ross is a good Rapper but If he sells as many bricks as he says, he's a great multi-tasker, because that dosen't leave much tme for rap. Plus talking about it will get a Fed case.
BlazeN's picture

^^^dammm^^^

for those up top consider yo self schooled lol.......
Mark Waldo Ward's picture

I'm not talking bout street

I'm not talking bout street cred, I'm talking about how he got on w/ his lil skater image and went mainstream off that(Kick Push). Then he abandoned it and those in the know said he couldn't skate good either. Therefore he's a fake ass skater, like Officer Rawse is a fake hustler. So consider me unschooled, most do anyway.
Mark Waldo Ward's picture

Also skaters have had theme

Also skaters have had theme songs for years, there's a little group out of Long Island named Public Enemy that had a charming lil ditty called Fight The Power that the skate set was particularly fond of.I won't even mention the Beasties.
Flint_Seraphim's picture

Think of it a different way

Claiming to be a drug kingpin and claiming to be a skater are two sides of a drastically different coin. One does not have to skate WELL in order to be a skater. At least he has done it (unlike ross). He may not have been good, but I'm sure he probably has friends who do it all the time.
"Kick Push" was just a story. Why isn't this man allowed to tell a story? He never said the boy in the story was him. Ross perpetrates a lifestyle that was never his own, parades it around, and tells it's tale like a first hand account. That is not storytelling, not when you can't admit it's something that isn't your own. Lupe just told a story. He even said that it isn't him.
So, now, what you're saying is someone can't be a fan of something and write a song about it? That doesn't sound right, so what's the real reason you don't like him? I'm sure he respects the craft.
-For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
Mark Waldo Ward's picture

I like Lupe , Im just saying

I like Lupe , Im just saying how come only street cred ever gets called out for faking, why not every thing that's fake. Like your validity is only an issue as far as hustling and killing. Your points are good though,I feel you on not having to do something well, I didn't think of it like that.
151's picture

yo I never comment on

yo I never comment on anything even though i read everybodies ish but i just wanted to say that its was good to read a discussion rather then an auguement. goodjob people lupe is the shit though.
rIChsmONeys's picture

no need for g-checking

lupes street cred is OK. he does skate. hes not that good lol, but he does skate. IVE SEEN HIM pick up a skate board and bust his ass trying to pull something off lol then he joined rotation and busted a freestyle haha hes a real nigga bro STOP hating
hiphopchild's picture

Fuck TK

TK a skater tryna rap and has no talent at it. he needs to stick to skating and quit tryna be a gangsta. His brothers were the G's of the family. If anything that nigga is false bangin. TK a snake too. and who cares if lupe skate's or not...it was something to put him on the map. TK and all his skateboard goons would never come to chicago talkin that mess. Its petty. and Noticed that was the first time he stepped into the music scene. Snake...and the latest is his fuck Curren$y campaign...dude a lame and is fuggin up the rap game with his petty BS.
allworldkal's picture

????? Praise Lupe

Lupe did what Tony Hawk and all the skateboard companies could not do,INTRODUCE SKATE CULTURE TO AN URBAN AUDIENCE. Millions have been spent in vain until Lupe's song came along. SO THANK HIM BTW it's only 1 skate classic song besides his which is Suicidal Tendencies "Possesed to Skate" WTF are YOU talking about?!?!?! Not Impressed Wack ass,Jack ass smoke a dime of crack ass booty MC,can kiss my black ass!!
feROSHUSs's picture

auto DL

//In Brooklyn we don't give a fuck about rubber band stacks Niggas will rob you for your money and give you your rubber bands back//
PussyAssNiggaLetTheWindowDown's picture

Lupe dat nigga !

Lupe dat nigga !

Alot of people sleep on lupe

Alot of people sleep on lupe I think dudes got talent. Niggas realer than most these fake ass's.

THE TAPES GOOOD

@Mark Waldo Ward CUZZ YOU CAN GET LIFE 4 DRUG DEALING,AND SKATERS THEY ONLY GET THERE BOARDS TAKEN AWAY LOL...."I RISK MY LIFE JUST TO TALK LIKE THIS AND THIS THE MUTHA FUCKIN THANKS I GET">>JEEZY
Willard14's picture

Good Tape

For all those looking for a little better lyrical content this tape is for you. Not every track does it for me but definetely worth the download. It's dam refreshing to see people speaking to one another with some respect also. Big ups for not arguing like the rest of these children.

agreed

I'd have to agree with the others about the discussion. Normally I read through comments and nothing but shit talking. It's really nice to see respect being thrown out there. Can't wait to listen to the mixtape should be nice. Really waiting for that lazers though.
hiphopchild's picture

if you hatin on lupe...

you really don't know what hip hop is...if you really think wayne is hip hop, then you have no right to comment on this mixtape. If you think lupe is fraudulent, then you need do sum research. Lupe was a gangsta rapper, like most MC's from the Chi, but because of the difficulty of getting put on and getting music put out a lot of them changed their styles. Mikkey Halsted...he still isn't on like other cats from the chi but he the same way as lupe...(Free Bump) but trust chicago isn't going to put out no fake MC's...you wouldn't survive talkin shit. L.E.P. gets love in Chicago because these niggas truly live what they rap. Bump J...not no fucking Plies but a real goon. My nigga was signed to Shady aftermath. Got a million cash and hit the streets...this nigga started Goon Squad in chicago...Right now he is doing a bid for a bank robbery. Not just any nigga can make into the rap game in Chicago. The streets really have to back you. Why you think so many Rappers get robbed in chicago. BUT Lupe is a real nigga, I can't speak on ross and other niggas who talk the dope game or the gangsta life, but In Chicago you have to be authentic.
bole420's picture

nice tape

this a nice lyrical tape for the ones that claim they love real hip hop, check out lupe is ok street cred ok also.....
Mark Waldo Ward's picture

When did I or anyone else

When did I or anyone else say anything about Wayne.
hiphopchild's picture

who said I was talkin bout you?

you seem insecure homie?
dninc's picture

Hatin on Hobbies?

Im just now readin this shit and it's hilarious! LMBAO!! WTF!! How the fuck y'all gone hate on a niggas hobby? fuck what a nigga like to do on his free time, how can that dictate your talent level or your street cred level? Somebody please explain that to me and try not sound ignorant because imma call yo ass out..
Nigga's are now restricted from doing what they personally consider fun because white boys traditionally did it first? MAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Lets see, hmm, White boys sported Gucci first, White Boys Sported Expensive cars first, White boys dated white girls first, White boys made Cocaine Popular first, White boys started the modified rides... There's a lot of shit white boys have or have done first that "So called "G's" and street nigga'z consider their own code now.. that shit just get done different..
Thank them White boys for making the computer ya'll Gangsta's are all on and the Ipods and Zunes ya'll all sportin and rides ya'll love so much and the Plasma/LCD's we all love..
Or just shut the fuck up and live ya life and let them nigga's live theirs the way they want, ol'e highschool mentality, easily influenced, weak minded ass nigga'z.. (he ain't actin like this so he not Screet humph! ) lol
      Reppin that *504 and 813*
* I Bleed Black and Gold, (20-10 Saints gone make noise again) *
hiphopchild's picture

I feel you

this whole "street cred" makes you a good MC is stupid. I personally think Rick Ross is a decent Rapper, and can careless about his situation. Talent beats credibility in my book. People stopped fuggin with charles hamilton after he got slapped, getting slapped didn't make his lyrical content and delivery any worse...waka and gucci have street cred but lack on the skills. Niggas need to get off that street cred BS.
patcol's picture

btw blacks started

btw blacks started rock-n-roll and hockey
dninc's picture

hmm

I dunno about Ice hockey being started by blacks but definitely Rock n Roll was, which is strange why when you hear certain black folks (like myself) listening to Guitar solos, or some Post rock, etc you get strange looks and people say some of the most stupidest shit like (oh you a sell out now huh?), or why you listenin to that white boy music?, for years i heard that as a youth on up to my early 20's then all of a sudden all it took was for a big time Rap artist or BET to start puttin that shit on and Bam, everybody all of sudden "BEEN" listenin to rock even though they can name only less than a hand full of Genre's or bands out there, o'le follow the leader ass zombie brain nigga'z nowadays..
      Reppin that *504 and 813*
* I Bleed Black and Gold, (20-10 Saints gone make noise again) *
patcol's picture

the early slaves who escaped

the early slaves who escaped north formed the coloured hockey league in Nova Scotia in 1894 you can read the book the black ice; yea the guitar solos go hard, i knew alot of niggas that listened to it on the sneak tip but you can't deny good music reguardless of where it came from
openmike's picture

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patcol wrote:
the early slaves who escaped north formed the coloured hockey league in Nova Scotia in 1894 you can read the book the black ice
Will do.
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chop76's picture

Man two of the best guitar

Man two of the best guitar players ever to of lived are black guys, Jimi Hendrix and B.B. King, now if you pulled up bumpin Blink 182 Id think that was kinda weird, and a whole lot gay
patcol's picture

you aint never lied

you aint never lied
chop76's picture

Jimi Hendrix song "Remember"

Jimi Hendrix song "Remember" and B.B. King song "Hummingbird", if yall dont know what Im talkin bout then you have no idea about music and need to take notes
hiphopchild's picture

Don't forget

George Benson...another great Black guitarist. Who fuggs Kurt Cobain? OR how about red hot chili peppers-Californication or under a bridge (bruh I could ride around all day smokin sum good banging under a bridge) ...Weezer- Beverly Hills, or some led zepplin...I personally fugg with godsmack before football games...I'm not gon stunt rock is some good weed music, good pump up music.
openmike's picture

Trend Setter

Yeah, I feel you man. I use to take heat for that shit as well man. Shit's crazy. People be superficial and they don't even realize it.
That and because of something as stupid as how I talk. (Who gives a fuck about how I talk, write, etc. Judge me by my actions.) The people who I grew up wit accepted me for me, but the people who don't know me say I'm an "Uncle Tom" (rofl and it's like how? Because of how I talk? gtfoh.). My moms just stressed the importance of pronunciation because she didn't want me to have a hardass carolina accent (like most of my relatives).
Fuck that shit. People need to define their sense of self instead of letting others define it for them.
As for rock music lol, who do you listen to? Just curious.
336 ~Rum and Cheerwine~ 704
patcol's picture

since my dad was a guitar

since my dad was a guitar player i was always into the guitar, rather its bass or electric so thats my guilty pleasure. If you ask me intelligence doesn't have a color on it but people say that your actin white or that a white person is actin black, its about your enviornment not skin color.
Acecito1's picture

4sho homie i fell that when

4sho homie i fell that when u a product ov yo envoirment u aint got 2much ov a choice on how u act unless u doin sum differen 2change yo situation!! n our people smarter den they think, they stupid as jus stuck on how peep view dem n wanna stand up 2da hood n street look dat dont fit dem nstead ov actin like they got since when they kno how 2act!!
dninc's picture

Well my situation is a lil different mane..

I kinda just stepped outta the box, i was into music, im a keyboardist and i real good on the track board be it Digital or hardware, so i wanted experiment a long time ago with other sounds when MIDI's were the big thing on the internet (yea showin my age there lol).. but i was one of those people that had a shit load of MIDI's in circulation all over the net.. While doing that i decided to start listening in on Rock, Metal, Post Rock, punk, nintendo core etc.
but i didn't grow up in the suburbs.. i grew up right off of Airline hwy in Bunch Village.. Any Nigga from Orleans Parish, River Parish or Jefferson Parish know where that's at lol.. it's the HOOD, thats where all the murders and shit mostly happen lmao, but when every other person in that area is your relative or a friend of a relative you aint really got shit to worry about, i can go out there now with all that crime going on and feel comfortable walking up and down each street today lol!! But when i was younger i let it be known from the jump to everybody what i listen to so i get that shit outta the way, yea i got made fun of, i got chewed out, i got called all types of shit but i feel i opened my mind up and broke outta a mold everybody wanted to weld every nigga into i managed to turn about 20 of my homeboyz on to a few of what was known as "Cross over genre's" Back then.. Nowadays it's pretty normal for black folks to be into some form of Rock... I thought back and im like.. Damn i was way ahead of my time back then! i must be some type of prophet lol.
My Skills in music production has improved a bit but i've been less motivated lately and been just tryin to make money, but yea If ya'll blaze, ya'll would not believe what your missing out on with some of the shit that be coming out..
      Reppin that *504 and 813*
* I Bleed Black and Gold, (20-10 Saints gone make noise again) *
openmike's picture

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openmike's picture

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Anyway, I asked who you listen to because I didn't know what "Post Rock" was lol. LMAO And I have absolutely no clue as to what "MIDI" stands for. Had to enlighten myself via Google.
336 ~Rum and Cheerwine~ 704
openmike's picture

No doubt.

I have the same opinion on "intelligence". I'm just sayin that's how I was raised, I never noticed it til like the age of 10, when I had to stay wit my Uncle for a bit in Charlotte, but people got use to it as they got to know me. Anyway, havin an accent or how u talk doesn't mean shit. But for some reason, that's how a lot of people think, and I'm able to bank on that. (LMAO I'm not racist, but it's like what Dave Chappelle use to say, "Oh, so you feel comfortable now whitey?") Especially in regards to school, work, etc. That's how I see it.
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IHatePosers's picture

what up charlotte

openmike wrote:
I have the same opinion on "intelligence". I'm just sayin that's how I was raised, I never noticed it til like the age of 10, when I had to stay wit my Uncle for a bit in Charlotte, but people got use to it as they got to know me. Anyway, havin an accent or how u talk doesn't mean shit. But for some reason, that's how a lot of people think, and I'm able to bank on that. (LMAO I'm not racist, but it's like what Dave Chappelle use to say, "Oh, so you feel comfortable now whitey?") Especially in regards to school, work, etc. That's how I see it.
336 ~Rum and Cheerwine~ 704
east charlotte in here where u from. -hating thats what you do best-
openmike's picture

Was good?

North QC by way of Greensboro. Ol Villa Heights.
Btw, nice sig.
336 ~Rum and Cheerwine~ 704
openmike's picture

"but people say that your

"but people say that your actin white or that a white person is actin black, its about your enviornment not skin color"
Yeah man. I thought about that for the longest and I get it now. When, I lived in Charlotte, I was surrounded by other people in the same situation...low-income and when I stayed in Greensboro on two occasions...we weren't making that much (about 20K a year), but I went to a majority white school (with the majority of students coming from high-income families). I didn't really think about that having an effect on me or w/e, but I think you're right. I still prefer to enunciate when I talk and use an allegedly "big vocab" JUST BECAUSE (that's what I'm gonna fuckin do) and because it grants me a lot of freedoms. People feel comfortable with a person who acts allegedly "white" lol, so they wouldn't suspect anything out of the ordinary. Fuck it tho, I'm not trying to "act white" (w/e the fuck that is), I'm just being myself.
336 ~Rum and Cheerwine~ 704
IHatePosers's picture

after this paragraph

dninc wrote:
Im just now readin this shit and it's hilarious! LMBAO!! WTF!! How the fuck y'all gone hate on a niggas hobby? fuck what a nigga like to do on his free time, how can that dictate your talent level or your street cred level? Somebody please explain that to me and try not sound ignorant because imma call yo ass out..
Nigga's are now restricted from doing what they personally consider fun because white boys traditionally did it first? MAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Lets see, hmm, White boys sported Gucci first, White Boys Sported Expensive cars first, White boys dated white girls first, White boys made Cocaine Popular first, White boys started the modified rides... There's a lot of shit white boys have or have done first that "So called "G's" and street nigga'z consider their own code now.. that shit just get done different..
Thank them White boys for making the computer ya'll Gangsta's are all on and the Ipods and Zunes ya'll all sportin and rides ya'll love so much and the Plasma/LCD's we all love..
Or just shut the fuck up and live ya life and let them nigga's live theirs the way they want, ol'e highschool mentality, easily influenced, weak minded ass nigga'z.. (he ain't actin like this so he not Screet humph! ) lol
      Reppin that *504 and 813*
* I Bleed Black and Gold, (20-10 Saints gone make noise again) *
i would like to thank the japanese for inventing playstation ...real talk. -hating thats what you do best-