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What I've learned is not to take anybody's advice. If you rely solely on your fans, it sets you up for the downfall on the industry side and if you rely on what your label is saying, it will disconnect you from your fans.
Lupe Fiasco
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Lupe Fiasco
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: February 16
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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.
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Hip-hop is just something I actually know how to do. But I always had aspirations to participate in other forms of music.
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You know what I had a problem with? The war - the war in Afghanistan.
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I was once that little boy Terrified of the world, now I'm on a world tour
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You would never know if you could ever be, If you never try, you would never see.
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You have educate the masses to exactly what their tax dollars are going to pay for. I think once people educate themselves and open up their minds to understand that on that really basic level, then you'll have some type of change in the way that Americans associate themselves and participate in their own political process.
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Some stuff I don't even put out. I'll just be home, happy, creating something for myself, and then ball it up and throw it in the trash. It's less about trying to prove something or get on somebody's list or make a fan happy or make a hater mad or convert a non-believer. That's not the case for me anymore.
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