All Black Everything - Lupe Fiasco

[stillmatic]

There"s hundreds of them. It's actually one of the most overdone concepts in hip hop. It's gotten really repetitive.

But Lupe's is dope, he adds a twist to it. It's one of my favourite songs of his ever.

In recent years, these are some well known ones.

Snoop Dogg ft. Dr. Dre - Imagine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdZaQMocMpU

Jadakiss - What if
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6mKUNs1Y3Y

50 Cent - What If
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8EXpYQzBJo

My favourite all time version of this song is Fredro Starr's version of it. It's probably one of the most popular songs in the NY tunnel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcnrE8ocjZ0

Then of course there is arguably one of the greatest songs ever made in Nas and Lauryn Hill's 'If I ruled'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2vv_lmeP8E

[I'mShady]

one of my fav tracks on the album after the show goes on, brilliantly made song...

It's not easy doing the whole pretend shit, and what if that never happened or that happened diffrently

president bush send condolences from iran

Crips never occurred no Bloods to attack them
Matter of fact no hood to attack in
Somalia is a great place to relax in
Fred Astaire was the first to do a backspin
The Rat Pack was cool group of black men
That inspired five white guys called The Jacksons
Eminem fitted in but then again he inspired a black rapper tryin to mimic him
And that’s what really rose up out of Michigan, the sign of white rapper by the name of 50 Cent, ha!

etc... (all of the song is like that...)


Nas did a song with a backward concept ''Rewind'' and I think this is on close level to that

Eminem did a similiar thing with Airplanes II i guess

Any other rappers with similar type of songs? cause damn they amazing

I'm off to work now...

Why do you have "Free Classthe_King!!!" in your signature??? What happened to him?

[Kevin Paul]

If all else fails-Joe Budden has a similar "what if" concept

[slimsoxshady]

too many of these "black" songs have been made
not really a big fan of this song...probably among my least favorite from the album

[ShadyNarkoticz]

One of my favorite songs by him, top 5 best songs of the year so far. I think down the road it will be remembered as one of the best hip-hop songs.

[Raids-God]

If all else fails-Joe Budden has a similar "what if" concept

Great Outro to MM4

[FreeSpeech]

one of my fav tracks on the album after the show goes on, brilliantly made song...

It's not easy doing the whole pretend shit, and what if that never happened or that happened diffrently

president bush send condolences from iran

Crips never occurred no Bloods to attack them
Matter of fact no hood to attack in
Somalia is a great place to relax in
Fred Astaire was the first to do a backspin
The Rat Pack was cool group of black men
That inspired five white guys called The Jacksons
Eminem fitted in but then again he inspired a black rapper tryin to mimic him
And that’s what really rose up out of Michigan, the sign of white rapper by the name of 50 Cent, ha!

etc... (all of the song is like that...)


Nas did a song with a backward concept ''Rewind'' and I think this is on close level to that
Eminem did a similiar thing with Airplanes II i guess

Any other rappers with similar type of songs? cause damn they amazing

I'm off to work now...

Hell no this is no where close to Rewind. It's dumb, it's just what-ifs and there really wasn't much clever. It's a weak over-done concept. The only dope part was the first part of the hook.

Plus I don't wanna hear about all this "poor us" stuff. Yeah maybe one of my ancestors was a slave, that sucks, but we don't get over racism by continuosly pissing and moaning about it.

[stillmatic]

too many of these "black" songs have been made
not really a big fan of this song...probably among my least favorite from the album

WTF is a black song?