Tape Tape (video)

"Tape Tape" (stylized in all caps) is a YouTube video by American rapper Lupe Fiasco, streamed to his channel on October 2, 2020. He gave news of his latest project with Soundtrakk, Tape Tape, released the same day.
== Transcript ==
Lupe Fiasco	Yo, yo. Yo, yo, yo, s'up, s'up YouTube land? Bam, bam. Let y'all sneak up in here, you feel me?
Lupe Fiasco	Yo, what up, y'all. Coronavirus is still a thing, make sure you practicing physical distancing. Make sure you wear a mask that covers the mouth and the nose. Condolences to the folks who passed during this time, prayers are with you and your family. If you're sick, hope you on the road to recovery and getting better.
Lupe Fiasco	Uh, Tape Tape. Tape Tape is out right now. Tape Tape is myself, Lupe Fiasco and Soundtrakk. You know Soundtrakk from joints like "Kick, Push," "Hip-Hop Saved My Life," and "Paris, Tokyo," and "Superstar," et. cetera, et. cetera, et. cetera. So just want to come in here real quick let y'all know that the the new piece is out.
Lupe Fiasco	People may be a little confused about what it is. Tape Tape is kind of like an ongoing little project that me and Soundtrakk kind of started. We work on a lot of different kinds of music, got a lot of different kind of projects and different things that's in different lanes. One of the lanes was trap music. Soundtrakk had a bunch of trap beats kind of sitting. I normally stick to kind of doing the real like lyrical, conceptual stuff over to more like dense, kind of jazzy blues beats, soul beats, that's like my forte but I can do all the other stuff as well. And kind of Trakk had all these beats just sitting so I was like, oh, let's just play with those and see what happens.
Lupe Fiasco	So the plan is to kind of just treat Tape Tape almost as a playlist, which may eventually kind of accumulate into a EP or kind of like something maybe a little longer but it all depends on y'all, you know what I'm saying? We dropped these first two just kind of like as a taste to see if people like really rock with it, see if people like it, see if it catch. And if people catch, if it catch on and people like it, we got more in the clip, more in the tank, to put out more. And the idea is to just kind of release a couple joints every so often and just kind of add it to kind of the Tape Tape. Add it to kind of the Tape Tape, kind of playlist like I said, and just kind of accumulates into one piece. So right now we got the joint "Oh Yes" and the joints "Apologetic" out right now. They're available on the big kind of streaming platform so you can get it on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Pandora Music. And like I said, you know, this is a little bit more of kind of the stuff that we would normally kind of do on mixtapes. Kind of play with little beats. Kind of current little trap music, play with different styles and stuff like that. Only difference is, we're just kind of making like real songs out of it so it's more in the vein of like Drogas Light or maybe some older, mixtape loosie kind of stuff we did but taking a little bit more serious putting a little more energy coming from a different way.
Lupe Fiasco	With that said, if you're a fan and you expect just the super lyrical acrobatics and stuff like that, maybe Tape Tapes not your your forte. Again, it's not really for the lyrical super Lupe lyrical fans like that. It's more for a different audience. Of course I got different kinds of people that the music caters to, so the music on Tape Tape you might not mess with, but I suggest maybe you get House. House EP is available right now that's myself and Kaelin Ellis featuring Virgil Abloh, Crystal Torres. Maybe stick to that. We do have more kind of the traditional kind of Lupe music on the way in the clip but that's a little bit later in the year. We wanted to kind of focus on just hitting you with these Tape Tapes type vibes. Real melodic, kind of upbeat, more trappy, real basic kind of simple approaches. Two things as opposed to getting like super duper, uber complex, because the next record after this one is a little bit more conceptual a little bit more complex so kind of want to give people a break. Take off your thinking caps a little bit prior to dropping that and just kind of have a little bit more fun. Play with a little bit more music. So there won't be a Tape Tape 2, it'll stay Tape Tape. We'll just add more records as it goes along over the course of maybe the next month, two months, something like that as we feel like it. And depending on how y'all rocking with the joints. If the response is y'all don't really fuck with this, we'll just kind of put Tape Tape to the side, go back to focus on the more traditional things. But at the same time too, just remember Tape Tapes not really for the super Lupe, lyrical, conceptual, political situations. It's not for that at all. I'm telling you that from my own mouth, like you ain't got to wait to hear from a blog or some review or for yourself, I'm telling you that right now. And I'm not upset if you don't if you don't like it if you don't you want to move on to something else. Like that's cool. Again, it's not for everyone, it may not be for you. But there's definitely other Lupe fans who really enjoy when we do music like this and kind of mess around and put out stuff that's a little bit more current. So again, if you if you feel like you know this ain't your forte we appreciate you checking in on it. You can just kind of either go back to House EP. I'm thinking maybe I got this other little project that I was thinking maybe I'll do in the interim while we putting out Tape Tape something for the more super lyrical heads to kind of fuck around with but it's a little bit more intensive, it takes a little bit more work but it depends you know unless we see like a real backlash people not really fucking with it, we gonna kind of keep moving on where we at. And that's that. So that's the Tape Tape piece, again to kind of reiterate. Think of it more like a playlist as of right now and we'll just kind of sporadically add music to the playlist over time. It'll all be titled Tape Tape. There won't be a Tape Tape 2, a Tape Tape 3, just to keep things consistent. It'll stay the same name, Lupe Fiasco and Soundtrakk. Me and Soundtrakk on the beats, me on the raps, it'll still be kind of in this lane of kind of like this upbeat trap kind of situation and we'll just kind of continuously over the next month or two months or whatever depending on how people vibe with it, depending on the response that we get back. If people fucking with that vibe then we'll keep going down that lane, and then eventually you'll just over time get something that's about the length of a EP or maybe even a LP.
Lupe Fiasco	So, that's the piece on it. It is what it is. Again, we got another the plan is to have like another record out hopefully by the end of the year. Like a full just kind of Lupe project but in between now and then, we're gonna just kind of pepper up the audience who fuck with this Tape Tape shit. So that's it, man. I appreciate it. Thank you all for who have tuned in. Wanted to kind of drop this here to kind of give people a certain clarity on what it's going to be and just vibe with the music. If you really rock with it let me know. Hit me on the 'Gram, hit me on the Twitter page, wherever. Go to LupeFiasco.com. You can get the links and everything to Tape Tape but again, it's available on Amazon Music—well I don't know if it's, I think it's available on Amazon Music. But definitely available on iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, Tidal. So you can just check it out just type in 'Tape Tape' and it should it should come up and right now it's just two joints but again, we just kind of wanted to test the water. Not beat you up over the head with a bunch of joints, even though we got a bunch of joints kind of in the clip just waiting to see how y'all rock with it and vibe with it. If y'all fuck with it, vibe with it, we're gonna keep it going but if not we're probably gonna pull back and move to something else. Cool? So man, appreciate y'all. Any questions?
Lupe Fiasco	We're not taking. Uh, the homie uh Dapner Productions asks you know we're not really taking beats you know I got enough beats. Me and Trakk just gonna kind of ride out the rest of the season just me and him banging out joints. Maybe a couple from the other homies, shout-out to Wiz and The Buchannans. But other than that, we're probably just going to keep it straight to just me and Trakk vibing. So appreciate you wanting to send us beats over, but we good.
Lupe Fiasco	Nah, we don't need ideas, we're good on ideas, we straight, trust me. We good on music, good on ideas, hooks, choruses, we good. But again, I appreciate you for reaching out.
Lupe Fiasco	Will you ever do rock genre again? Uh, me and Graham kind of got some Japanese Cartoon stuff. Some real like just basic stuff, but we actually trying to figure out how we might re-release the first album In the Jaws of the Lords of Death. So if you was a fan of Japanese Cartoon and you always wanted kind of an official release, we thinking of how we maybe maybe we re-release that music. Make some vinyl or something like that. So we're in conversations with that but it's not like a big, big rush but we might do that. But yeah, it would just be the first Japanese Cartoon album. It won't be a new album just so y'all know, so when we talk about re-releasing it would be that. But are we we kind of got some ideas for maybe new Japanese Cartoon music but that's like so far down the line. But we just kind of look peeking at it, see if it makes sense. If it don't make sense then we move on to something else.
Lupe Fiasco	Are you ever going to release "Barbeque Chicken Thighs" officially? probably not, "Barbeque Chicken Thighs" is more just kind of like a little loosie, little free situation mostly because we don't want to have to worry about clearing the sample so we just kind of put that out for y'all to vibe with. So it probably won't be released officially, it was never really meant for that.
Lupe Fiasco	Any features on Tape Tape? As of right now, no, there's no features on Tape Tape it's just me and Trakk. But you know, we'll see, maybe some remixes or something. Again, it all depends on how people rocking with people rocking with it then we'll move on but you know if not, then I dunno.
Lupe Fiasco	Is there any other chance of a virtual show? We've been doing virtual shows on the low, but they mostly been private so we've done a couple more. I think one of them might you might see, some virtual concerts but I think that one was like short but you will see. But we've been doing them. Like I said, we just did two but one of them was for a private event so it wasn't meant for the public. But the other one potentially, yeah, you might see it.
Lupe Fiasco	Can we get a song title for the—what Mickey Factz keeps talking about. Um, you probably won't see that, to be honest. It's not really meant for like the public like that. So, I mean, it's there. It's more personal for me and for my peers. It's not really meant for the public, so you may not see it. It may depends on how I feel, if I feel like putting it out, if I can get it together maybe but right now it's more for me to vibe with and to kind of play for the homies. I don't want to give y'all sometimes give people too much you know you kind of get lost in the sauce so we kind of kind of want to keep things controlled and confined, focus on the projects that make sense. As opposed to just trying to like put out stuff to just prove something.
Lupe Fiasco	Is Tape Tape just trap-influenced songs? Yes, all the Tape Tape would just be trap music you know so it won't be no. If you're expecting like some super lyrical Lupe—I don't know if y'all can see the questions, but people ask me questions in the comments. If you're looking for the super lyrical Lupe or that Lupe that you're used to, I suggest you kind of check out House or you just wait 'til we put out the next project after Tape Tape. But yeah, any more music that we add to Tape Tape will all kind of be in the same vein that you're listening to right now with "Oh Yes" and "Apologetic." For those that are kind of just tuning in, we talking about Tape Tape the new ep it's available right now on Apple Music, iTunes, Tidal, Spotify, for stream or for download or whatever. So y'all can check that. But yeah, it's me and Soundtrakk all kind of like the trappy the trappy vibes when we get in our trappy zone you know because it ain't all just like jazz samples and chops and super conceptual records. We kind of play wherever the music feels good for the moment, that's kind of what we do. Again, most of times release stuff like that on like either mixtape so we did some pieces of it on like Drogas Light so it's not like it's a new, new thing. But we never kind of just put full focus on it so now we're going to kind of put full focus on to see how y'all fuck with it.
Lupe Fiasco	We don't talk, we talk about on the YouTube live we try and keep it just to the music so we have a nice separation between this and what we talk about on the IG—
Lupe Fiasco	Yo, oh alright. I don't know why I just froze like that, but I got a call and it froze. So anyway. The—what was I saying? Yeah, so on the YouTube lives you're trying to keep it separate just kind of focus on music here. We'll probably pop in back over to IG to see what's going on, I think it's some issues with the streaming or whatever, but we're trying to keep the whatever the current events over on there and just kind of use the YouTube for music for people who come over here for the music side of things.
Lupe Fiasco	Yeah, man. So that feels good. Hope you all are cool and vibing. Again, Tape Tape is out right now. Again, it's like a playlist. We'll add more songs to it as y'all vibe with it, if y'all want more songs we'll kind of go with that as we work on this other project. House EP, House is myself and Kaelin Ellis featuring Virgil Abloh, Crystal Torres and Graham Burris. So y'all can pick that up as well or choose between whichever one you want to rock with and what's the other one? Yeah, man. I'll see y'all on the IGTV. Coronavirus is still a thing make sure you practice any social distancing. Blah, blah, blah. Coronavirus is still a thing. Make sure you practice in physical distancing, make sure you wear a mask that covers the mouth and the nose. Condolences to the folks who passed during this time, prayers are with you and your family. If you're sick, hope you're on the road to recovery and getting better. Tape, Tape, Tape, Tape, Tape, go get that, you know what I'm saying? Shout-out to Soundtrakk, shout-out to everybody who tuned in. Hope y'all enjoy the music and I will see y'all next time. Peace, much love to you.
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