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I'm not in competition with nobody. I want to make good music for my fans who want it, who enjoy it, who learn something from it. And that's what it is.

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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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My problem is I’m peaceful, and I believe in the people.
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Your child’s future was the first to go with budget cuts.
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The rewards we get by being those weird guys going against the grain to me are way more massive than selling a million billion records. I like climbing mountains or going on undersea dives for whales and stuff like that.
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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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Why kill you when I can just not teach you and get the same results?
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People don't understand that where I come from, everyone is either a convict, been in jail, been in a gang, is a hooligan of some sorts, but those are my brothers, my family and the people that I travel with. Those are the people that I roll with.
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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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Da Pak was a group out of Chicago. It was a put-together group. We actually met for the first time at this showcase. They were like 'Yo, you should do a song together.' So we did. It just so happened that the name of the song was 'Wolf Pak.' They said, 'Y'all should be a group called Da Pak, and here's a record deal.'
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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.
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The murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing and you see who's doing it and perpetrating it, they all look like Chief Keef.
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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.
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You ain't got to change the whole world. You just alter it a little bit and you redefine it into something beautiful.
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I always preach that you have to be active as a citizen no matter what, and some people just voting as an excuse not to do anything.
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The point of Islam is to promote peace.
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I look at people like Picasso and Da Vinci and Escher and Miles Davis, and they'll write or paint that one definitive masterpiece of maybe 50 that they have that's really trying to go outside the box, trying to do something that's tough. And then when you accomplish it, you look back and go, 'Yeeaaaah - masterpiece.'
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The world brought me to my knees, what have you brung you?
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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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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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They say the streets is a demon in a dress, Wit dollar signs in her eyes and semen on her breath
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In my fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama, and the United States of America.
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