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For me, I walk a line of fame and infamy. I walk the line of celebrity and non-celebrity.

Lupe Fiasco

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Lupe Fiasco
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: February 16
Businessperson
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Peace Activist
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Wasalu Muhammad Jaco
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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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I grew up in the 'hood around prostitutes, drug dealers, killers, and gangbangers, but I also grew up juxtaposed: On the doorknob outside of our apartment, there was blood from some guy who got shot but inside, there was National Geographic magazines and encyclopedias and a little library bookshelf situation.
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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 can strip down basic principles of certain things and apply it to everything else. And that keeps you interested, changing the art form, making it more avant-garde. Because I can't play any instruments.
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Know the weapons of the weak, kill weakness of the heart and never fall asleep.
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The point of Islam is to promote peace.
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For me, I walk a line of fame and infamy. I walk the line of celebrity and non-celebrity.
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My whole team, it wasn't about putting the album out, it was about getting off the record company and going independent or going to another label. To the point we were like, 'Listen, just take 'Lasers.' You can have whatever percentage off the next ten records I do for the rest of my life. I just do not want to be here anymore.'
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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Everybody has their opinion on what's 'real,' and what's they choose to listen to and their personal preference. Whether they're 2 years old or 200 years old. And people can listen to whatever they want.
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The world brought me to my knees, what have you brung you?
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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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I was once that little boy Terrified of the world, now I'm on a world tour
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