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My problem is I’m peaceful, and I believe in the people.

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Lupe Fiasco
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: February 16
Businessperson
Composer
Dressmaker
Peace Activist
Rapper
Record Producer
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Chicago
Illinois
Wasalu Muhammad Jaco
Double J
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The point of Islam is to promote peace.
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When I write, it's intimate. I write in the car, and I don't even hear, like, ambulances driving past me because I'm in my car, listening to the music, writing. I record in an attic with no booth. It's not like I'm in the dark with candles, but it's like a house, a home, and I record like that. I think that plays into the music.
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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.
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The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record it was stuff that was happening to me.
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I have people who want to pull me into specific projects in the community based on my music and on the mixtapes. It's like, it's the truth but I'm not trying to preach to you. Because who am I to say what's really right or wrong, or whether what I say is going to change anything? I don't take it too seriously it's really whimsical.
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I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence
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I want to make music as good as Radiohead, as good as Coldplay. I can make hip-hop as good as anybody.
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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?'
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America is not all white people. It's not all black people. It's not all Mexican people. We together, and we all relate on certain levels, so if you actually scaring people away, they can't relate to what you're saying.
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This nation was founded by rebels and revolutionaries, and its flags were carried across the battlefields by people who were very, very against the status quo and who questioned and criticized.
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I think there's a lot of the hip-hop crowd behind Barack Obama because he's a black man. Honestly, I'm rooting for Hillary because race is only going to go so far. All the presidents are men at the end of the day.
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World is not designed for you to win it's designed to be played. It's designed for you to play your position until a certain point, when you get a chance to actually do some good, make a statement, get on your soapbox and say something.
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Chief Keef scares me... not him specifically, but just the culture that he represents.
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Obama came in and gave $700 billion to the bankers off the top as opposed to giving $700 billion to the poor.
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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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When I started making my own music, I was more about recreating what I was hearing. I noticed that I had some control over what I was saying, and the effects that it's going to have on people. I wanted to focus more on the positive side of things, which are more in tune with my morals and ethics.
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You need to think about the system that you live in and the comforts that you have. But the comforts that you have that are causing the discomforts of a massive amount of people around the world.
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You always wrestle with depression, you always wrestle with those things, because the events and the experiences are still there, and the things that take place are still happening.
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Barack is at a level where he can't - no matter how much he wants to or how much we want him to - he's not going to come take out our garbage, so to speak. He can't be the garbage man and the president. He can't be the mayor and the alderman. He can't fill all those roles. So I always push for local, local activity on the political scene.
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The biggest terrorist is Obama.
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