Fiasco Quotes

• With 'Hip-Hop Saved My Life,' I attempted to make 'Kick, Push,' but for rappers. To give a real basic play-by-play of the life of a rapper before he makes it - if he ever makes it, because you can get stuck in that and be trying to make it for the rest of your life.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Real, Rapper, Play

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• Fear is such a weak emotion that’s why I despise it

  Lupe Fiasco

  Emotion, Weak, Despise

  Song: Words I Never Said, Album: Lasers, 2011

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• Reggae, oh man. It's the ultimate music. The positivity. The musicality. The whole cultural expressionism of it. The danceability. Just the cool factor. The melody factor. Some of it comes from a religious place. If there were a competition of who makes the best religious music, it would definitely be the Rastafarian reggae.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Religious, Positivity, Men

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• If they burn a book, have no worries. The book will feel NO pain so neither should you! True destruction of the Qur'an cannot be done with fire; it is destroyed when we fail to remember & practice its lessons in our daily lives. If this occurs, then it is ANOTHER fire that you should truly be concerned about!

  Lupe Fiasco

  Pain, Book, Fire

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• I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence

  Lupe Fiasco

  Thinking, Silence, Violence

  Song: Words I Never Said, Album: Lasers, 2011

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• Obama came in and gave $700 billion to the bankers off the top as opposed to giving $700 billion to the poor.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Giving, Bankers, Poor

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• Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It's a lot of things. It's something you can't be afraid of, because you'll stop growing. The next step beyond failure could be your biggest success in life.

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  Inspirational, Success, Failure

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• Sometimes I wish I never found the Internet. Sometimes I regret getting a laptop and Wi-Fi for logging into the Internet because it is such a distraction. If you have any addictive personality, the Internet will magnify it.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Regret, Personality, Wish

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• My whole team, it wasn't about putting the album out, it was about getting off the record company and going independent or going to another label. To the point we were like, 'Listen, just take 'Lasers.' You can have whatever percentage off the next ten records I do for the rest of my life. I just do not want to be here anymore.'

  Lupe Fiasco

  Team, Independent, Lasers

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• Takes a long time to happen so fast...
  To realize that your future is somebody else's past

  Lupe Fiasco

  Rap, Past, Long

  Song: Old School Love

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• The only person who really impressed me with making new music is Cudi. Everyone else seems to be jumping on the same music, the producer-made stuff, but the one person that's made new music to me is Cudi.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Jumping, Stuff, Made

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• I love Obama, and I love the fact that it's a black president of the United States of America, but he's not the first black president. Robert Mugabe is a black president ,too, so let's not get to talking about precedents being set.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Talking, America, Black

  "Lupe Fiasco supports Barack Obama but says he's not first black president" by Alvin Blanco, www.mtv.com. March 9, 2011.

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• I always preach that you have to be active as a citizen no matter what, and some people just voting as an excuse not to do anything.

  Lupe Fiasco

  People, Voting, Matter

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• I was literally told for 'The Show Goes On' that I shouldn't rap too deep. I shouldn't be too lyrical. It just needs to be something easy on the eyes. Like a record company telling Picasso that we don't need these abstract interpretations of life, where people have to sit down and look at it and break it down.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Rap, Eye, People

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• The murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing and you see who's doing it and perpetrating it, they all look like Chief Keef.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Oakland, Chicago, Looks

  "Lupe Fiasco Retires? Rapper Says He’s Done After Chief Keef Attacks Him On Twitter" By Kia Makarechi, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• If you're going to fight terrorism, to me, you fight the root causes of terrorism.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Fighting, Roots, Causes

  "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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• The truth is limitless in its range, if you drop the T and look at it in reverse it could hurt.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Hurt, Looks, Limitless

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• I think there's a lot of the hip-hop crowd behind Barack Obama because he's a black man. Honestly, I'm rooting for Hillary because race is only going to go so far. All the presidents are men at the end of the day.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Men, Thinking, Race

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• We have to make the physical music a little more valuable instead of just having a download link and a bunch of songs you downloaded from some torrent site. People try to make the music value-less, and I don't think we're going to stop that train, but the one thing that they can't devalue are things that are in the outside world.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Song, Thinking, People

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• I look at people like Picasso and Da Vinci and Escher and Miles Davis, and they'll write or paint that one definitive masterpiece of maybe 50 that they have that's really trying to go outside the box, trying to do something that's tough. And then when you accomplish it, you look back and go, 'Yeeaaaah - masterpiece.'

  Lupe Fiasco

  Writing, People, Trying

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• It's a massive undertaking putting an album together... It's not light weight at all.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Light, Together, Weight

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• I find it somewhat liberating to jump, to dive into things that are the opposite of me.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Opposites, Liberating

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• In my fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama, and the United States of America.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Fighting, America, United States

  "Lupe Fiasco: Obama ‘The Biggest Terrorist’ (VIDEO)", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 8, 2011.

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• I think you have to ask yourself does voting work on the level that you are trying to effectuate change; that is the conversation you must have.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Thinking, Voting, Trying

  "Lupe Fiasco on Freedom". Interview with Lisa Bonner, www.ebony.com. June 28, 2012.

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• Everybody has their opinion on what's 'real,' and what's they choose to listen to and their personal preference. Whether they're 2 years old or 200 years old. And people can listen to whatever they want.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Real, Years, People

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