Lupe Fiasco Quotes - Page 4

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• We on the internet. That's such a small community. We think we're so huge. If you went up to people on the street and asked them about it, they'd probably be like, "You had a album coming out?" Let alone it leaked.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Thinking, People, Community

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Looks, Stories, Records

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• You always wrestle with depression, you always wrestle with those things, because the events and the experiences are still there, and the things that take place are still happening.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Events, Stills, Happenings

  "Hip-hop artist Lupe Fiasco". “The Tavis Smiley Show”, www.pbs.org. March 9, 2011.

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• Faced with the way the system does you in the 'hood sometimes, if you don't literally get out, your chances are slim. You'll definitely die mentally. You'll pretty much die physically.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Doe, Slim, Way

  "From Pine Ridge to preacher pedophilia, Lupe Fiasco album aims to incite". Interview with Eliott C. McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. August 7, 2012.

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• With Australian audiences, there's a certain level of education - as far as how much access and exposure they have to music from various genres. So when you do 'Big Day Out' and there are all these different musical acts, you see the same people in your crowd that were there for a completely different artist.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Artist, People, Musical

  MTV Interview, www.mtv.com.au. March 4, 2011.

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• Sand camouflage army men
  CCF sponsorin, world conquerin, telephone monitorin
  Louis Vuitton modelin, pornographic actress honorin
  String theory ponderin, bullimic vomitin
  Catholic priest fondlin, pre-emptive bombin and Osama and no bombin them
  They breakin in my car again, deforestation and overloggin and
  Hennessy and Hypnotic swallowin, hydroponic coughin and
  All the world's ills, sittin on chrome 24-inch wheels, like that

  Lupe Fiasco

  Army, Men, Car

  Song: Hurts Me Soul

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• There is no line of demarcation between the amateurs and the pros; everyone is using the same tactics and playing in the same arenas. The only thing that separates them is radio, but the artist doesn't control who goes to radio and who doesn't.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Artist, Tactics, Lines

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• The stuff that I make and the things that I talk about, you have to listen, so if the beat is doing too much, it's going to take you away. If the hook is too distracting, it's going to take you away. The hook just needs to be enough to get you from one verse to the next.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Hook, Enough, Verses

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I love her (Lucifer), with all my heart. She said that she would give me greatness, status, placement above the others. A match made in heaven, set the fires in hell. The devil on me. Game got my soul. Momma said beware of what the devil do. Tell'em that your soul's not for sale. Every dream is designed and broadcasted from the masters to the masses.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Dream, Heart, Greatness

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• When you look out into the world and you turn on the news and it's just so dark, it's still there. But it's the battle, it's the struggle with that, and at the same time to recognize that happiness and love and all those things exist as well.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Struggle, Dark, Happiness And Love

  "Hip-hop artist Lupe Fiasco". “The Tavis Smiley Show”, www.pbs.org. March 9, 2011.

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• The biggest terrorist is Obama.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Rapper, Terrorist

  "Bill O'Reilly Confronts Rapper Lupe Fiasco Over Calling Obama a 'Terrorist'". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. June 20, 2011.

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• I saw the dudes who would be the gangsta, big-time guys on the block, but would also be dedicated fathers. It was kind of weird to see that dual story that everybody has.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Father, Block, Gangsta

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• Before my father would open up a karate school in a particular neighborhood, he'd clean up the block - kick all the drug dealers and gang bangers off the block. My father was very clear: 'I've got guns too, and I'll kill you just as much as a rival gang would.' And he meant it. He was a man of many facets and complexities.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Father, Block, School

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• It's really about taking something inherently negative, and starting with the word loser, starting with something that's negative, and changing it into something that's positive, redefining it, but doing it in a certain way, how - like I would say when I look out at the world and you see it's dark and it's just overbearing and every day is depressed, depressed, depressed. What it took was to change my perspective a little bit. Not to change the world, to change my perspective.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Dark, Perspective, Negative

  "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. March 9, 2011.

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• They say the streets is a demon in a dress,
  Wit dollar signs in her eyes and semen on her breath

  Lupe Fiasco

  Eye, Hip Hop, Dresses

  Song: Real Recognize Real

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• In my fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama in the United States of America. For me, I'm trying to fight the terrorism that's actually causing the other forms of terrorism. The root cause of the terrorism is the stuff that you as a government allow to happen and the foreign policies that we have in place in different countries that inspire people to become terrorists. And it's easy for us because it's really just some oil, which we can really get on our own.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Country, Fighting, Government

  "Lupe Fiasco calls President Obama 'Biggest Terrorist'" by Alvin Blanco, www.mtv.com. June 8, 2011.

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• The biggest budget is the military budget. For what? We're fighting two wars in very small countries that have no nuclear weapons, that have no capabilities to destroy anything. They probably couldn't even get to America.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Country, Military, War

  "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. March 9, 2011.

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• I want to make music as good as Radiohead, as good as Coldplay. I can make hip-hop as good as anybody.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Hip Hop, Want, Hips

  "Lupe Fiasco Talks "Lasers" Delay, Japanese Cartoon, and "Food & Liquor II"". Interview with Insanul "Incilin" Ahmed, www.complex.com. September 11, 2010.

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• The point of Islam is to promote peace.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Islam

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• I have people who want to pull me into specific projects in the community based on my music and on the mixtapes. It's like, it's the truth but I'm not trying to preach to you. Because who am I to say what's really right or wrong, or whether what I say is going to change anything? I don't take it too seriously; it's really whimsical.

  Lupe Fiasco

  People, Community, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• To me, you can't win. You can't win. There's a war in Iraq; there's no way that they're ending that. The war in Afghanistan is still going on. There's no way that's going to end anytime soon. You can complain about it, you can throw rocks at it, but you really have to come to the conclusion that this is a really twisted place sometimes and some stuff you're not going to win.

  Lupe Fiasco

  War, Winning, Complaining

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I write, it's intimate. I write in the car, and I don't even hear, like, ambulances driving past me because I'm in my car, listening to the music, writing. I record in an attic with no booth. It's not like I'm in the dark with candles, but it's like a house, a home, and I record like that. I think that plays into the music.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Home, Writing, Dark

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I love jazz. So to me, there are two main types of jazz. There's dancing jazz, and then there's listening jazz. Listening jazz is like Thelonius Monk or John Coltrane, where it's a listening experience. So that's what I like; I like to make stuff that you listen to. It's not really meant to get you up; it's meant to get your mind focused. That's why you sit and listen to jazz. You dance to big band or whatever, but for the most part, you sit and listen to jazz. I think it comes from that aesthetic, trying to take that jazz listening experience and put it on hip-hop.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Thinking, Dancing, Listening

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• People see your reviews sometimes, and it's so good that they think I wrote it. And I'm like, "OK, yeah, I wrote it. And I own the company that put it out."

  Lupe Fiasco

  Thinking, People, Sometimes

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There are still songs that I'm writing. I like to write. I like to take a long time to do my songs, not even the actual writing process, but conceptualizing, getting into the songs. That's why I stopped doing mixtapes.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Song, Writing, Long

  Source: pitchfork.com

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