1 ON 1HOOD with Lupe Fiasco 

I love Lupe Fiasco.

I remember watching Kick, Push on 103 & Park. It was around my birthday at the time and I loved the song so much (even tho I wasn’t a skater) that I asked for his debut CD. Best decision I ever made I fell in love with him afterwards. Once I started searching his mixtape shit, that cemented his status as the greatest lyricist ever for me. I love this man, he’s the only celebrity I would be star struck if I ever met. I would ask him a million questions afterwards 😂

I hate that it took a drug case for the content to be pure but it puts him up with KRSOne and J-Live. Lupe, especially proved to my kids that you can stick to your values in hip hop, and be a great success

The eye hook metaphor on the mountains was elite! Dope shout out to the Free Solo movie

Lupe always has something interesting and unique to say. Love watching his interviews. Like the way he thinks a lot

Host:...Drill Music from Zion.... Lupe:....strike 1 Host:...Soundwav Lupe:...strike 10... Self activates 10% Lupe to get by for the night...

Glad he spoke on being blackballed and the way Real politics work in America.

Here are my takeaways from this interview… 1. When you’re inexperienced with interviewing, it shows with the constant interruptions, trying to make the convo about yourself, and overall poor pacing of the interview. Lu could have dropped gems but interview homie just had to try and keep up with the man instead of listen. 2. Lu is so slept on that the name of Lu’s producer and the name of his most recent album was butchered. I get that Lu is hella enigmatic but even Brendan Dunne of Sole Collector/Full Size Run did his research and made Lu more comfortable with the mixtape references and all. Lu really showed homie grace when Soundtrakk and Drill Music In Zion was slighted like that. 3. Active listening is a skill. Listening to respond is not active listening, rather the interviewer should listen to understand. Cause dude was interrupting so much that when Lu spoke, we couldn’t get the whole picture he was trying to paint.

I studied and worked at Harvard. Lupe is so true. Kids up there try to be something they aren’t when they need to be them. Luoe ia my favorite rapper besides pac and big L. 🐐

"Don't worry about that, he owe me favors"

Alan forever is such a beautiful song he gave a whole life to that child

Thanks for sharing this interview! Some really interesting bits of Lupe history, and knowledge about the music industry and politics in America.

This is wonderful. Lupe’s insight in the second half of the interview. Amazing

My GOAT. Got a fist pound at his first show after Samurai. Not the official tour. A little show at a bicycle festival North of Seattle. Anyways. "Adjunct Professor" is the technical term for his relationship with MIT.

First and !!!! Lupe is the goat 🐐!

Lupe ❤❤❤

I wonder if lupe looked at him like that because he said drill music From Zion(which is not the title) instead of drill music In Zion (correct title) 🤣🤣. Like how you gonna get the album title wrong???

Thank you 🙏🏾

Lupe will go down as the greatest

There’s something inherently bothersome about inexperienced interviewers, and this dude is no exception.

Damn! Seattle is my favorite song on that album. I'm from there and the refence to Korean food and alcohol caught me off guard cuz I have very close contact this Washingtonian Korean diasporas. Fucking COOL.

Long Live Lupe Fiasco

This interviewer should have just had this conversation privately with him..

Nike STILLLL hasn't made Lupe SB Dunks !!???

on the east coast skate boarding always been in hiphop. Atleast for as long as I can remember.

ask clearer concise questions thats aren't so drawn out.

I love the song Imagine on drogas wave. Two futures Lu that wanna be both of me too.

I think the mountain analogy is good, like yes someone does need to go actually drill the holes so you can put into the hook carabiner and go to next one. That's why there is like names for routes, because they become a route for you not really being able to go another path without a drill or free-solo the thing (or do your own holes while at it). So yes I get it like as an analogy for getting inspirations and blueprints from people before you, yes it would abide to Lupe with the first records as it would to anyone. Also yes he have left a marks (hole) for others which is pretty rare even when rapping and being a big name. Still like after Lu's first 3 records it is kinda Aesop Rock type of exactly free-soloing 😂 Like dude, you just talked about making an album in 3 days and it's way more insightfull than most of the rap. That's pushing the boundaries what can be done at certain point with a certain mind (everyone have some boundary they can push if not able to do that). It is still interesting way of saying it, of seeing the big beautifull mountain from a far, but the tiny holes count so much more for the sport (rap) being where it is (the beautifull mountain). Unfortunatelly you have labels that aren't as interested in art as they are at money. Like yes you need profits to keep making art but it's ridiculous to the point of not releasing songs for it pissing off say plastic indrusty. Since all of this is interconnected in USA. Like they want the kids to go and spit the gun bars and some go and live the lifestyle because "it's cool". It must work because since 90's, from the conception of privatized prison systems they have been in on it, the prisons get more money from goverment per inmate and then overhouse and make profit by not keeping the standards up. Label owners having stakes in them. This being verified by Ice Cube and Bone Thugs so it's not even speculation. Then as said in here, the music business is super crooked in US. Like it was led by mafia in Sinatra times and it's not like methods have changed to better. Offing people ain't of the menu. Drogas Light needed to be released by hacker group because Atlantic wouldn't do it, even if it was ready and people making petitions to release it... Lupe's last album with label. I guess they have been now more open to Cole and Kendrick type of rappers since they know they have the youth already. Kendrick is anyway from Aftermath that is first the rapping and then other business. Cole I don't think have been seen such a force to make any game impacting moves to change it, even tho just now recently started to be taken as The Guy from these times. Also labels have noticed long ago that since attention spans have shortened, young people will Always from now on put first some "fun" gangbang and bang records before anything that needs even remotely actually listening. Rap is also merging with being an internet personality and gimmicks over.. rap. Like they for no reasons didn't use millions on marketing the last Lil Uzi Vert horrible bs album. Even the fans cannot barely excuse the album but it doesn't matter, since it is way more about the idolitary than the music itself. Never before have a musician could put out That big pile of garpo with such a marketing (when these days marketing is barely done thru adds but this was) and the artist not get toppled way down for the embarrashment. Still the guys out sales tours to the maximum cabacity. It's a joke and not a funny one.

That hoody and jacket nasty.. like the color my daughter plans on attending there

Lupe for the W

My favorite rapper ever

Free Chilly!!!!

dope

This interviewer interrupting Lu and making this about himself.

Dude how do you join SOSA and why didn't this exist when I was 12

5:20 we caught that Lu

Tough being in the interviewers position because Lupe is a teacher and can speak technically while volunteering open discussion at his own pace...

Dope!

Strongly disliked how he started this interview lol

This guy is a horrible interviewer but Lu was great

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49:30-58:35 💡

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Repeatedly emphasizing how avant-garde a person is does not constitute an interview. Coulda wrote it in a card bruh lmao. Provoked some interesting responses from Lu though.

Free the big bro chill

Soundwave…..?

53:39

This interviewer is kinda bad…like really bad lol

This is nutssss .. I'm never voting again.. I wonder who Lupe was talking about.. don't worry about it, Obama owes me favors. You didn't know it but you opened doors that you couldn't see..

Interviewer 😢

Ain’t he suppose to be grading papers?

Very frustrating Interview…..

BECAUSE YE AINT FRIM CHICAGO

wasted lu's time

This dude interviewer is a mess

This interview is horrible

Most unfunny dude alive

Lupe is the best emcee this century.