Report: Lupe Fiasco @ the Brooklyn Book Festival

The Brooklyn Book Festival went down yesterday and Lupe was part of a panel which was moderated by Touré and also featured Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and the poets Tracie Morris and Matthew Zapruder.

Their discussion of where poetry, rock and hip-hop intersect focused on words. Fiasco -- who resisted fans' efforts to get him to say when his album will be released -- explained that before he worked with music and beats, he filled notebooks with words. "I had a plethora of words," he said.

Photo courtesy of Kate Glicksberg

"See how many pieces I could collect." Zapruder concurred, saying, "I find words that attract me ... and I set myself this task of making something out of them." But Moore saw words as a mutable part of rock and roll, "slurred language," which could be misheard and mis-sung, unintentionally making songs over.

via LATimes