In a recent interview with NBC San Diego, Lupe Fiasco revealed that we will be taking his “Steppin Laser Tour” overseas.

“It actually started in Australia,” said Lupe of the tour. “The US was the second leg, so there’s like a third and fourth and fifth leg…to complete the world tour.”

Lupe expressed hopes that his upcoming album, Lasers, would be out soon, though he wasn’t sure when it would be released. He did say, however, that he turned the album in months ago.

Below is a video of the brief interview:

In honor of his apperance in the documentary Pimps Up, Ho’s Down, NPR.org invited Ice-T to play a quiz game called “Pimps Up, Pantyhose Down,” which tested the rapper’s knowledge regarding differend kinds of pantyhose.

But prior to the quiz, during which Ice-T was able to answer two of three pantyhose-related questions, the rap veteran detailed the days when he was just starting out.

“Well, you know, I mean we started hardcore Hip Hop back – you know, I started rapping in 1982. You know, it scared the hell out of America,” said the rapper of his influential music. “I mean, we went on to do a lot of different other things that really shook up America. I mean I was – how many people in your audience will ever have the honor of having the president of the United States say their name in anger?”

Ice-T also spoke on his early days of crime. “You know, I was out on the streets doing everything. I mean, I robbed banks. I did all kinds of things. And, you know, the music business, the rap music business was just starting. And I would go to clubs and yet, after I would go out and do whatever I was doing. I would go in the clubs and I would rhyme just to get attention. And I started to kind of mix in some of the facts of the life that I was living with the music and we created a genre which they called gangster rap.”

Other topics broached in the interview included his role on Law and Order, as well as Vanilla Ice, whom Ice-T described as “actually a really cool dude.”