1254: Lupe Fiasco
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/05/30
2011
“Solzhenitsyn put it very quaintly. Basically, there’s a duality in everything — there’s two sides to every story. Sometimes they complement each other, and sometimes they conflict.”
2013
“Limbaugh is a racist, Glenn Beck is a racist,” he raps. “Gaza Strip was getting bombed, Obama didn’t say [expletive]. That’s why I ain’t vote for him, next one either. I’m a part of the problem; my problem is I’m peaceful.”
2013
“I called Obama ‘the biggest terrorist.’ The root cause of terrorism is the stuff that the U.S. government allows to happen … and it’s easy for us because it’s just some oil.”
2013
“I try not to have expectations when I go into a city, or another area or whatever … I tone down my expectations so I don’t get over‑excited.”
2015
“I’m much more mature in my representation in public, in the sense of I’m not as relevant as I was before. It’s that natural irrelevancy that occurs with all artists. I think I had my peak and now I am coming down in relevancy. It’s not a sad thing for me.”
2018
“It’s about a group of slaves on a slave ship on their way to Africa … they didn’t die. They stayed alive under the sea and dedicated their lives to sinking slave ships — so they became this super, underwater force against slavery.”
2018
“I’ve never been destroyed. Also the only issue that the world thinks I have with K. Dot and I actually do is that I think his ‘Control’ verse was wack and super overhyped to be a verse claiming you are the best rapper. It was very weird. I was told it was just bait, but still.”
2020
“Everybody has to die — we’re not going to escape that. It’s not really death that bothers some people. The process of dying is what people kind of get caught up into.”
2020
“Countries don’t want to be like America, where the police are killing people for nothing … where these people won’t even wear a mask. I think America will fall behind the times in a very real way as other countries start to out‑develop or just ignore America to a certain extent.”
2021
“Drill Music in Zion is my ‘Illmatic.’”
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