QUOTE

"I don't really buy a lot of jewelery and none like that, I go out and get like old Japanese import video games"

- Lupe Fiasco -

Lupe Fiasco Says:

"I like music because... It gives me a chance to escape and reach people I wouldn’t ordinarily be able to reach. And without music the world would be kinda quiet."

I Saw It On TV

I was told to buy a CD - The CD told me - "Buy a TV"
The TV that I bought came with a CD that said:
"Go and buy the DVD"

The DVD that I bought came with a CD
which was the DVD of the makin' of the TV, that I saw

Which told me to go and buy the CD in the first place, wait nah

I put the DVD in the TV, so you can see what I saw
but wait, it's a CD so you can't see me, odd

__________
"What It Do"

My favorite Lupe tracks always change but
this one is in my top 5 all the time.

What's your favorite Lupe Quote?

-Comment/Discuss-

A Genius Lu' Volume 25

I've been listening to Food & Liquor a lot lately,

and after hearing and reciting the Intro hundreds of times,

I finally listened (yes, it took me this long),

and realized it was absolutely genius.

"The well is running dry,

The days of Malcolm and Martin have ended,

Our hope has descended and [I sit aside],

Waiting for the reinstallment of the revolution,

Because we are dying at the cost of our own pollution,

But God has another solution that has evolved from the hood,

I present one who turns the Fiasco to good."

I'm not really sure what Iesha says on the bracket part,

so please correct me if you know.

besides that little mishap, that's one of my favorite parts.

A Genius Lu' Volume 24

click the pic to see the video

This one comes from Lupe's verse from Us Placers;

"All the money in the world don't make it painless, no."

I was going to put his whole verse,

but that last part went straight to the point.

so true these days. so true.

A Genius Lu' Volume 23

I tried to make the verse shorter,
but Lu's flow was too nice to do that on the Superstar Remix...

"You on your fifteenth minute of fame
and on the sixteenth beginneth the lame,
and on seventeen you lose everything,

the twenty-first is the worst, wishin' you was eleven

Poppin' like you were seven with the feelin' when you were seconds,

Reminiscin' when you was just in,

Now you just him, no longer the trend they dress in

Now you wonderin' where all the press went,

You no longer impress them,

Get arrested, paparazzi will press then.

I fail on purpose to stay a freshmen,

I lose, but Lu attend the school for X-Men,

So when I get my cap and gown and put the rappin' down

I'll only know half my powers, but I spent half an hour,

Like a senior citizen havin' a baby shower,

Haters want to budge it, but my fans still love it,

So you can ask them exactly who I are,

Nine weeks at number one, I'm a Superstar..."

as always, please correct me if you think I'm wrong on a certain part.

and on a side note, tomorrow is the BIG day!

make sure you go out and VOTE!

you all know who we'll choose =)

A Genius Lu' Volume 22

Another one from Hurt Me Soul...

"Gangsta rap-based filmings became the building blocks
For children with leaking ceilings catching drippings with pots,
Coupled with compositions from Pac, Nas's "It Was Written"
In the mix with my realities and feelings,
Living conditions, religion, ignorant wisdom and artistic vision
I began to jot, tap the world and listen..."

And because fan art was brought up again,
my friend Tim made a pretty pretty tight wallpaper of NERD...

A Genius Lu' Volume 21

I know I've done this song a couple of times before,

but with the 2008 Presidential Election only one month away,

I thought it was necessary.

The impossible has become possible.

The once possible has now become impossible.

History has been made.

For those of you that are registered to vote in the US,

PLEASE go vote on November 4th.

This is the most important election, ever.

VOTE!

"The more money that they make, the more money that they make,

The better and better they live...

Whatever they wanna take, whatever they wanna take,

Whatever whatever it is...

The more that you wanna learn, the more that you try to learn,

The better and better it gets..."

A Genius Lu' Volume 20

June previously posted this song...Thank you!

This one comes from Twilight Zone.

"My eye's a camera, my ear's a microphone,

and my mind is Pro Tools, my head is a stool,

What's recorded in my dome gets reported when I zone,

My mouth is a speaker, I'm anchoring the misery,

There's no friends, the enemy of my enemy is my enemy..."

I don't know any other way to explain it.

This song is RIDICULOUS.

Lu's mind is truly one of a kind.

A Genius Lu' Volume 19

Sorry for the delay, I'm back!

I'm gonna do two Genius Lu's..
sort of back to back this week since I skipped last weeks..

Due to some personal events,
this part of The Instrumental has been playing
over and over in my mind..

"And you can't tell me just who you are,

You bought new clothes just to hide those scars,

You built that roof just to hide those stars,

Now you can't take it back to the start..."

true. on so many levels.

the next Genius Lu' coming shortly..

=)

A Genius Lu' Volume 18

This week's Genius Lu' comes straight out of

Ghetto Story (Steady Mobbin')...

"Individuals whose feelings is miniscule

Soon become criminals if you're dark-skinned,

And you was raised in a project apartment,

Public Aid made it that your father couldn't stay,

He had to part then, left with only a mother

The family structure suffers,

He will soon cling to hustlers, as his guardians,

He's still a boy, needs to fill a void,

Marchin' up the block up to no good, sellin' in the wrong hood,

He was taken down by a marksmen.

At his wake, 8th grade Graduation picture

Last words: 'Don't let your habitation get ya'..."

so many people can relate to this.

A Genius Lu' Volume 17

This one comes from Failure.

Some of the lyrics in this song can relate to so many situations in life.

it's been stuck in my head all week.

"I remember I ain't have sneakers,

It was welfare,

Coming up for "Airs" like

Whales there,

Fila's

But now I'm well here,

I'm Shamu with twelve pair,

and n*gg*s wanna take me back to zero, like Tare, fair.

Well my scales clear, your "see" world is braille here..."

It was pretty hard picking only one part of this song.

The lyrics are incredible.

and for the people that don't know,

Tare = the weight of an empty container..therefore making it zero.

here's the song, just incase you haven't heard it,
or want to hear it for the millionth time.

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"Not at all nervous as he dug to the surface,

Tarnished gold chain is what he loosened up the earth with,

He used his mouth as a shovel to try and hollow it,

and when he couldn't dirt spit, he swallowed it,
Working like a, hmm...reverse archeologist,

Except, his buried treasure was sunshine..."

Of course, this one comes from The Cool!

one of my absolute favorites.

"his buried treasure was sunshine,"

...Genius.

A Genius Lu' Volume 15

I did the same song 2 entries ago, but I believe the lyrics in it deserve more than 1 post.

"Now the poor Ku Klux man see that we all brothers,

not cuz things the same, but cuz we lack the same color,

and thats green, now thats mean,

can't burn his cross, cuz he can't afford the gasoline..."

and a lil shoutout to the mc of 1000 names who also agrees that the whole song, American Terrorist, is his Genius Lu'.

by the way, what's up with part of The Chi liking Lil' Wayne's lyrics better than Lupe's?

I would have thought different from the best city in the whole wide wide world!

A Genius Lu' Volume 13

I'm back! Sorry I've been absent for a while..
I'm in Minnesota at the moment,
and tomorrow I'm driving down to Chicago
for Lollapalooza this weekend!

But of course, Sean has been doing an AMAZING job
keeping you guys updated with everything FNF!

anyway, this one comes from American Terrorist.

"The books that take you to heaven
and let you meet the Lord there,
Have become misinterpreted reasons for warfare,
We read them with blind eyes,
I guarantee you there's more there..."

Lupe Fiasco - Quote Of The Year

I'd rather have one kid buy my album and it encourages him to be a professor or something than have me sell millions and have the listeners want to be a gangster

from CNN's Black In America

A Genius Lu' Volume 11

One of my favorites on The Cool...Gold Watch

Tattoo:

"The most important parts are the ones that are unseen. The wings don't make you fly and the crown don't make you king."

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#4 on The Cool...The Coolest!

"She would be my queen, I could be her king, together

She would make me cool, and we would both rule, forever

And I would never feel pain

And never be without pleasure, ever, again

And if the rain stops, and everything's dry

She would cry, just so I could drink the tears from her eyes..."

The first time I saw him perform it was back in October...EVERYONE was amazed.

Here's a picture of him performing this exact part...

(I've seen him perform it enough times to know his expressions haha)

That song is one of my absolute favorites live.
It's insane how he gets into his zone.

A Genius Lu' Volume 9

This one comes from Intruder Alert...
one of the slowest songs on The Cool, but also one of the most complex.

"He's checking water

making sure it's safe enough for his daughter to float across in

the boat he built hopefully strong enough to support her,

praying border patrols don't catch her and process and deport her

before she reach the shore of the land of the free

where they feed you,

treat you like equals,

deceive you,

stamp you,

and call you illegal..."