Tetsuo & Youth
by Lupe Fiasco
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Lupe Fiasco bestography
Tetsuo & Youth is ranked 2nd best out of 12 albums by Lupe Fiasco on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Lupe Fiasco is Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor which is ranked number 2351 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 687.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Tetsuo & Youth track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Tetsuo & Youth rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | cicadelic | XXL Mag 20 of the Best Albums of 2015 | 20/20 | - |
| 2026 | jdizzle123456 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2015 | 35/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | sunnydhamm | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 1/100 | 20 |
| 2026 | Hyggevinyl | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 62/100 | 8 |
| 2026 |  DommeDamian | Favorite Hip-Hop/Rap records | 31/78 | - |
| 2026 | TroutMaskGreg | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 73/100 | 6 |
| 2026 | Foxforce5 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 87/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | sunnydhamm | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 1/100 | 94 |
| 2026 |  zdwyatt | Top 61 Music Albums of 2015 | 16/61 | 4 |
| 2026 | JeffN999 | Top 100 Rap Albums | 35/100 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 92 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 636 | |||
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Tetsuo & Youth ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/31/2026 23:04 | Mafedere | 801 | 74/100 |
| ! | 07/12/2026 23:50 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,693 | 70/100 |
| ! | 04/07/2026 18:46 | DommeDamian | 7,788 | 48/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.2/100, a mean average of 71.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.9.
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Tetsuo & Youth forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 08/13/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5403): By sunnydhamm
CharlieBarley 03/23/2022 07:02 in What album are you listening to right now?
benpaco 02/16/2016 04:26 in Recommend me Hip-HopTetsuo & Youth comments
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Skinny TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/28/2015 20:41 | #132822 | TOP COMMENT
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An overly earnest, cloyingly produced, self-important RapGenius subscriber's wet dream, with laughable hooks, nonsensical lyrics, and a load of A-level philosophy and quasi-religious rambling stretched out unnecessarily over the best part of an hour and a half. This shit walks a tightrope between goofy and self-righteous, and - as a general rule of thumb - that's a horrible line to tread. Also, just because shit doesn't make complete sense initially, or because there are "layers" (albeit not nearly as subtle layers as Lupe would like to think), it doesn't mean you're automatically Aesop Rock all of a sudden. And seriously, the wannabe-cinematic stylings and tolerance-trying runtime would be enough to make 2010 Kanye blush. And yet... this shit is still better than anything Lupe's done since his debut. Lupe likes to talk in BIG CONCEPTS, and then help the medicine go down with a spoonful of PERSONAL QUIRKS. It's pretty embarrassing, frankly. (Edited)
FlorianJones 03/29/2015 06:16 | #138111 | TOP COMMENT
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I won't rate it, because I honestly couldn't get through the whole thing, very long and in spots its so overproduced it's absolutely cringeworthy. However, "Mural" is insane, one of the best rap songs of the decade. (Edited)
Top Rap 10 album of the last 5 years
Lupe has always been my one of my favourite rappers but I was starting to get a bit disappointed, thinking that he's never going to be able to return to the quality of "the cool" and "food and liquor." but he has easily surpassed those with this album
Hayden TOP 100 COMMENTER 02/13/2015 02:27 | #134840 | TOP COMMENT
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Lupe's best album without a doubt. 'Mural' might be his best song to date too.
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