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.
My greatest enemy at one point was myself, and so now once I got over the fear of myself I don’t fear any man. I never have.
I don’t like to degrade women, but I like pornography.
I think that American presidents, that position in itself, as well as American foreign policy, it has terrorism in it. CIA agents going to overthrow certain governments – they’re using terrorist tactics. They’re not going in there like, ‘Hey, you wanna have some cake?’
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.
I have yet to see someone attack Obama over his report card. A lot of people I talk to from both sides of the fence are like, ‘Well, what about this economy? What about these incidents?’ There are still no answers except time, but time is the answer for everything.
First of all, you are not really that supreme.
True terrorism, you know, weaponized fear. In defense of ourselves, we’re fighting – actively fighting something else. But if you’re going to fight terrorism, to me, you fight the root causes of terrorism.
When I retire, I want to step away on a positive note. What you put out into the world comes back to you. You actually change the world with what you do. I want to put some good in the world.
I saw the dudes who would be the gangsta, big-time guys on the block, but would also be dedicated fathers. It was kind of weird to see that dual story that everybody has.
I know what tablas sound like, because my father played a lot of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.
I got into skateboarding when I was like a shorty. It was a toy thing.
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.
Your child’s future was the first to go with budget cuts.
For me, I never wore my religion on my sleeve, you know what I’m saying? I never put myself out there as Lupe Fiasco, he’s Muslim, he’s from Chicago, he likes to ride a skateboard.
The world brought me to my knees, what have you brung you?
Whats the biggest commercial for aggression, sexuality and materialism? What gets pumped into these kids heads? Taking someone elses girl, which is so laissez-faire in hip-hop, will get you killed in the streets, but it doesnt seem to be an issue when you hear it on the radio.
You would never know if you could ever be, If you never try, you would never see.
You can’t control it once you turn it into the label, so there’s the expectation that it’ll leak a week before the album comes out. That’s the world we live in.
I think you have to ask yourself does voting work on the level that you are trying to effectuate change; that is the conversation you must have.