Interesting: Lupe Fiasco Explains Why He Likes Rapper Lil B

Bay area rap artist Lil B has sparked a lot of controversy in the hip-hop community more recently with naming his album "I'm Gay (I'm Happy)". Many hip-hop artists and consumers feel as if the music Lil B makes does not represent real hip-hop and it shows the terrible state that hip-hop is in right now. Political rapper Lupe Fiasco took to his website and wrote a review entitled "Why I Like Lil B".

Check out what Lupe had to say below (Very Long Read):

I have a problem. It's something that I noticed a while ago and I think its something that has to do with my introduction to a wide array of musical genres as a child. My problem is is that it's really really hard for me to dislike music. I have such an appreciation for it in all its forms that I sometimes find myself listening to a schizophrenic range of sounds in the whip or on the iPod. You really have to go out of your way for me to just completely despise what someone creates musically. Now in the midst of this self-awareness I have discovered there is a certain context within music that I gravitate to more than others and that context is something that I have defined for myself as "Liberation Rock". It can be described as music that is subversive, revolutionary, political, challenges the status quo, mostly positive and even militaristic. A few examples of this would be "Know Your Rights" by The Clash, "Politik Kills" by Manu Chao, "Gentleman" by Fela Kuti, "Do It Like A G-O" by The Geto Boys, "Confrontation" by Damian Marley, "Rush Of Blood To The Head" by Coldplay, "Everyman For Himself" by Billy Blue, "In One Ear" by Cage The Elephant, "The Catalyst" by Linkin Park, "Strange Fruit" by Billie Holiday and the list goes on. I guess up against my political and social upbringing songs and artists like these strike a chord with me. Now this affinity for "Liberation Rock" doesn't negate or take away from songs and artists that don't necessarily fall under that personal category for me. Dependent on the environment, I have the uncanny ability to sit and universally enjoy whatever is coming through the speakers at almost any given time. But songs that express the qualities of my very own genre of "Liberation Rock" definitely get more burn in the system by far. And as it happens through their music I develop an interest in the artist him or herself. Sometimes the journey into the world of the artist outside of the music they create can be fruitless and even disheartening. Quite literally your hero's musically can be real assholes or morons in almost every other facet. But in all honesty that is a rare occasion. And even sometimes it's the inverse and the personality and mentality of the artist outweighs the music they create and the person becomes more of an interest than his or her art. In regards to Lil B I must admit I'm somewhere in the middle of those extremes.

New Video: Lupe Fiasco Feat. Trey Songz - "Out Of My Head"

Lupe and Trey Songz brings us the visual for their hit song "Outta My Head"  off Lupe's album Lasers, in stores now.

Watch below:

{Video} Lupe Fiasco Defends His "Obama Is The Biggest Terrorist" Statement On 'The O'Reilly Factor'

Last night Lupe Fiasco faced off with controversial Fox News television host Bill O'Reilly on his show The O'Reilly Factor. The two went head to head about Lupe's statement with Bill O'Reilly telling Lupe he was sending the wrong message to his fans about Obama.

Watch the two face off below:

Lupe Fiasco Defends His "Obama Is The Biggest Terrorist" Remarks

Earlier this month I reported that rapper Lupe Fiasco had stated that "President Obama is the biggest terrorist". The internet went into a frenzy over his remarks wondering what in the world was wrong with Lupe Fiasco. Controversial talk show host Bill O'Reilly didn't even agree with Lupe's remarks and invited him to his show. He claims Lupe declined the offer which warranted Bill to call him a "pinhead". Lupe then  responded and said he would do the show and had never declined. The show was taped yesterday and will air next week on Fox News.


Business and music mogul Russell Simmons took his website, Global Grind to give Lupe a platform to elaborate further on his thoughts about Obama and why he made the remarks that he did.

Read what he had to say below and I warn you it's a very LONG read:

Lupe: America was based on a hypocrisy and what we had done is basically an extension of that hypocrisy. I think that the Constitution was a hypocrisy in the sense that the same way you look at somebody like Glenn Beck as a hypocrite. On one level I agree with a lot of stuff that Glenn Beck says — this is to give you context for me and where my statements come from — I agree with the ideals that he speaks about when he talks about family values and when he talks about taking care of your own community. He talks a really good wholesome kind of game. The problem is, he’s not talking to anybody but white people. It’s really just the intention and the context of it. So there’s a certain level of hypocrisy that exists in America. And it started back from the Constitution and all the people who wrote the Constitution and everything that they put in there it was good game, but all those people had slaves. The majority of the people had slaves or were sympathetic to slaveholders or were direct recipients of money from slavery and things like that and had businesses that dealt with plantations and people that had slaves. There’s a certain level of hypocrisy that existed from the inception of this country all the way up until today and we’re really just facing the remnants.

My issue and what I try and do is expose that hypocrisy but expand the conversation to make it honest. To make the conversation honest so it speaks to everyone so people become educated to those things. So for me it boils down to everything that America does. It’s foreign policy is very hypocritical, it’s very backwards. We don’t count the other bodies, for us the war is one-way. And they’re not even wars of attrition, not even honest wars. They're not wars that were like wars that were fought 200 years ago or wars that were fought a hundred years ago. These are wars that are based on business. These are wars that are based on “let’s build these drones and we gotta try this technology but we need to make sure it works so we need to at least kill X amount of people so we can prove the value of this particular project that we spent 40 billion dollars on,” so to speak. And you multiply times how many things are going through the Pentagon military industrial complex.

Lupe Fiasco On Obama: "The Biggest Terrorist Is Obama"

“Limbaugh is a racist, Glenn Beck is a racist, Gaza Strip was getting burned, Obama didn’t say shit/ That’s why I ain’t vote for him, next one either.”- Lupe Fiasco in "Words I Never Said"

Last night in an interview with CBS' What's Trending, rapper Lupe Fiasco shared his thoughts on Obama and voting. Lupe says:

"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.”

Watch Lupe's Interview below:

Photos: Nicki Minaj, Trey Songz, Lupe Fiasco & More Hit The MTV Movie Awards Red Carpet

Last night the 2011 MTV Movie Awards were held in Universal City, California. Although most of music's hottest acts were in New York for Hot 97's Summer Jam Concert, Nicki Minaj, Trey Songz and Lupe Fiasco were holdin'it down at the Movie Awards.

Lupe Fiasco and Trey Songz performed together

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Video: Lupe Fiasco & Trey Songz Perform " Out Of My Head" @ MTV Movie Awards

Tonight at the MTV Movie Awards held in Universal City, California, Lupe and Trey Songz performed their hit single "Out Of My Head" for the first time off Lupe's album LASERS.  Lupe also performs his single "The Show Goes On". The awards have aired already on the east coast and are set to air at 9pm on the west coast on MTV and VH1.

Watch their performance below:

Lupe Fiasco - " The Television Will Not Be Revolutionized": A Tribute To Gil Scott- Heron

Last Friday the world and more specifically the black community suffered a great loss when poet, musician, and author Gil Scott- Heron passed away at the age of 62. Lupe pays tribute to Gil and Gil's most famous piece "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised", with "The Television Will Not Be Revolutionized".

Check out  the powerful piece below:

The Television Will Not Be Revolutionized

Idiot boxes of the world unite! To fight off the effects of intelligence, replace smart quotes with fart jokes, substitute sense with scenes from Martin, let the baby's bathe in that glow and learn all manner of things they don't really need to know!

The Television Will Not Be Revolutionized!

Channel the content of some rambling nonsense deep into the annals of yo' subconscious, deprogram and depress chasing some televised success, be them, that, they and those be everything but in control,

Another Track Jacked From Lupe Fiasco: Diggy Simmons Feat Bruno Mars- "Click Clack Away"

According to Rap Radar , this song was initially titled "Make My Day" and was originally intended for Lupe Fiasco. This adds to the list of songs that were originally intended for Lupe and given to someone else. Earlier this month I reported that Lupe had originally recorded B.O.B's "Airplanes" and at one point he was suicidal over B.O.B's success of "Nothing On You", which he too had originally recorded. Lupe is featured on one of Diggy's tracks "Oh Yeah" where in the beginning of the song Lupe acknowledges himself as Diggy's "big brother" so it's evident the two have a close relationship. With all this swapping of tracks it kind of makes you think.... what's really going on?

Listen to the track below:

New Video: Lupe Fiasco Feat. Skylar Grey- "Words I Never Said"

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One of my favorite cuts of Lupe's current album Lasers, in stores now.



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A Must Watch: Bun B & Lupe Fiasco Speak On Rappers Being Labeled As Role Models

It doesn't get any more real than this.

Listen: Lupe Fiasco Originally Recorded B.O.B's "Airplanes"

It's hard finding pictures of these two together...hmmmm I wonder why

Last month news broke that at one point Rapper Lupe Fiasco was suicidal over the success of B.o.B's track "Nothing on You", which Lupe had originally recorded. Lupe also expressed just before his latest album, LASERS release his dislike for LASERS(which happens to be a pretty good album by Lupe). To make matters even worse a new leak has surfaced of yet another track given to B.O.B also originally recorded by Lupe, "Airplanes" featuring Hayley Williams. Airplanes was another highly successful track for B.O.B and earned a rare feature by Eminem.


I want to know who is leaking all these songs. Are there anymore tracks that were ripped away from Lupe and given to B.O.B??  Hell was B.O.B's whole album at one point Lupe's?? I'm pretty sure these are the questions that come to everyone's mind. Maybe one day we'll find out the answers but until then check out Lupe's version of both tracks below.

Listen to "Airplanes"
 

Listen To "Nothing On You"

New Music: Lupe Fiasco & B.o.B.- "Who Are You Now"

Lupe Fiasco on Success of B.O.B's 'Nothing On You': " I Was Lightly Suicidal"

Rapper & Atlantic Records recording artist Lupe Fiasco has been busy during promo for his third album "Lasers" . He recently sat down with The Guardian and revealed that he had contemplated suicide over labelmate B.O.B's success of "Nothing On You" which was originally Lupe's song. The label wasn't feeling Lupe's version so there it went to B.O.B. Peep what Lupe had to say and listen to Lupe's verses. Check out what Lupe had to say and listen to his version of "Nothing On You" below.

"That was the tipping point. It was less about the bruised ego but more the audacity of it. It was mentally destructive. I say it with a certain laissez-faire now because I’m past it, but back then, hearin’ that s**t, it f**ked me up. I was super-depressed, lightly suicidal, at moments medium suicidal – and if not suicidal, willing to just walk away from it all completely.”