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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.

Lupe Fiasco

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Lupe Fiasco
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: February 16
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You know what I had a problem with? The war - the war in Afghanistan.
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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 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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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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For me, I walk a line of fame and infamy. I walk the line of celebrity and non-celebrity.
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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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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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Just listening to Pac, ain't gon' make it stop A rebel in your thoughts, ain't gon' make it halt If you don't become an actor, you'll never be a factor
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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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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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Why kill you when I can just not teach you and get the same results?
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We have to make the physical music a little more valuable instead of just having a download link and a bunch of songs you downloaded from some torrent site. People try to make the music value-less, and I don't think we're going to stop that train, but the one thing that they can't devalue are things that are in the outside world.
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Fear is such a weak emotion that’s why I despise it
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I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence
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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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I hope that God forgive us, all of us sinners turn us back into beginners, put us up where the winners go, Holy apartments in the gardens in which the rivers flow, thank you for all your blessings and all of your miracles.
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