Lupe Fiasco Quotes - Page 2

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• Every life is good. This [luxury] doesn't make life. It's a lifestyle. It's a style of life. Style is what you are, but everybody has life. And everybody's life should be good. Some of the happiest people in the world have nothing. Nothing. And they find happiness in being in the world. They wear the world with a smile.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Life Is Good, Luxury, People

  Lupe Fiasco interview with Complex magazine, ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com. August 1, 2008.

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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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• I'm just trying to do the opposite of left, as long as there's the opposite of death, ya know
  Yes, ya test and I just might bring the opposite of life, til' there's no one the opposite of right

  Lupe Fiasco

  Opposites, Long, Trying

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• Some people are the greatest people on Earth with good hearts and will get in the studio and make the most negative music in the world for the sake of success. That's what the music business does to you. That's what capitalism does to you.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Heart, People, Doe

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• A match made in heaven set the fires in hell.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Fire, Heaven, Hell

  Song: The Coolest, 2007

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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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• I don't think that politics are as complex as people like to make them seem or out to be.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Thinking, People, Complexes

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

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• All the big revolutions, whether it's the Industrial Revolution, the Arab Spring, those changes happened by economic and social shifts brought about by the people's voices, and those things weren't voted for. Most of our changes today are brought about through technology, not by voting.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Spring, Technology, Voice

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

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• It feels good, you know. It feels like you're out there, you know, doin' your own thing, know what I'm sayin'? It's like, people can't really compare it to anything, and that kinda feels good. It opens me up to a lot of different arenas, a lot of different type of situations, you know like Tony Hawk will call. You know what I'm sayin'? I can just image if my songs was about shootin' up, and like sellin' cocaine, I doubt Tony Hawk would be callin' you know?

  Lupe Fiasco

  Song, People, Feel Good

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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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• I really embrace my hypocrisy. I embrace that because after I do that, I can move on; I can try and go away from that. You gotta understand what your problem is and know what it is, and then you can change it. You can't just be like, "I'm a hypocrite, and to not be a hypocrite, I'm just going to not do hypocritical things." You can't do that; you don't even understand what a hypocrite is.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Moving, Hypocrite, Hypocrisy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Just listening to Pac, ain't gon' make it stop
  A rebel in your thoughts, ain't gon' make it halt
  If you don't become an actor, you'll never be a factor

  Lupe Fiasco

  Listening, Rebel, Actors

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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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• It's a funny line when you're walking - the creativity, the subjectivity versus the objectivity, creativity versus the business, and recognizing that you are in the music business, so there are certain things that you have to acquiesce to on the business side and certain creative decisions that you have to make for the purposes of serving the business side of it.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Creativity, Objectivity, Creative

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

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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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• I got into skateboarding when I was like a shorty. It was a toy thing.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Skateboarding, Toys

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• There's already been black presidents who've been corrupt, so it doesn't strike me that having a black man in office means he's going to be the Messiah.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Mean, Men, Office

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• The economical policies that are instigated really makes you think that the American government is a bunch of evil bastards. So just because you're black, you're still representing that government, and when Obama came into office he enacted the same policies that we would critique other presidents for.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Thinking, Government, Evil

  "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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• America is not all white people. It's not all black people. It's not all Mexican people. We together, and we all relate on certain levels, so if you actually scaring people away, they can't relate to what you're saying.

  Lupe Fiasco

  People, Mexican, Black

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Barack is at a level where he can't - no matter how much he wants to or how much we want him to - he's not going to come take out our garbage, so to speak. He can't be the garbage man and the president. He can't be the mayor and the alderman. He can't fill all those roles. So I always push for local, local activity on the political scene.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Men, Political, President

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• China is soon to be probably the most powerful nation in the world, but they only making like $10,000 a year, and that's doing it. They're balling on $10,000 a year, and this is the strongest nation? But it's a billion people. The way it breaks down, if you really look at it, it's still built on the poor, on the backs of hundreds of millions of destitute, impoverished farmers that you'll never see. You just see Shanghai and you see Hong Kong.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Powerful, People, World

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Just take me home where the mood is mellow
  And the roses are grown
  M&M's are yellow
  And the light bulbs around my mirror don't flicker
  Everybody gets a nice autograph picture
  One for you and one for your sister
  Who had to work tonight but is an avid listener
  Every song's a favorite song
  And mics don't feed back.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Song, Nice, Home

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• Success is a very dangerous thing and I think we have to be very careful about when we dictate what success is for somebody else. Because you don't know what it's like.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Thinking, Dangerous, Careful

  "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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• 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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• We weren't raised Muslim - we were born Muslim. I didn't go to a Muslim school, but it was just the theme song. It was ambient.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Song, School, Theme

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