Oh wow, I've been feeling "I'm Beaming" so much I entirely forgot about "Shining Down". Not to wank the guy off but Lupe is da shizz. Lyrically he has some of the most complex metaphors I have ever heard in hip-hop (which can be a negative or a positive depending on how you look at it). If you look at his earlier mixtape suff, tracks like "Lupe the Killer" and "Failure", he shows the qualities of a great MC. Nice wordplay, deep metaphors, not much of a message though (they are mixtape tracks after all). But yeah, Lupe is nice in my not so humble opinion.
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