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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
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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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You would never know if you could ever be, If you never try, you would never see.
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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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The world brought me to my knees, what have you brung you?
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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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The economical policies that are instigated really makes you think that the American government is a bunch of evil bastards. So just because you're black, you're still representing that government, and when Obama came into office he enacted the same policies that we would critique other presidents for.
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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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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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That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity my index of success is happiness.
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I don't really care about the GOPs or the Democratic Party. My point is the people, giving the people truth.
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A match made in heaven set the fires in hell.
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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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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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Most things that are politically right are morally wrong
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Sometimes I wish I never found the Internet. Sometimes I regret getting a laptop and Wi-Fi for logging into the Internet because it is such a distraction. If you have any addictive personality, the Internet will magnify it.
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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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If you're informed, you make an informed choice. You understand the quality of certain things and you understand the history of certain things.
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The stuff that I make and the things that I talk about, you have to listen, so if the beat is doing too much, it's going to take you away. If the hook is too distracting, it's going to take you away. The hook just needs to be enough to get you from one verse to the next.
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