Lupe Fiasco discussed a wide range of topics in an interview billed as one of his last, on the Sway in the Morning broadcast, Thursday (January 22).
During the conversation, Lupe reflected on the crafting of his album, Tetsuo & Youth, his strained relationship with Atlantic Records and his social media spats with Kid Cudi and Azaelia Banks.
Fiasco says that he had a cool relationship with Cudi until about a year ago.
“Fuck him,” he says. “I wanna get to the bottom of what the fuck you talkin’ about. Because it’s me. The same nigga you went in Complex and was like, ‘One of the only niggas who reached out to me genuinely and had love for me was Lupe.’ You the worst type of nigga.”
Fiasco points to the back-and-forth with the Cleveland rapper as the reason why he has left Twitter.
“That’s why I left” he says. “I felt like people just caught the tail end of the conversation and then wanted to speak their piece and just go crazy and felt like I was enabling people to bring out the dumb shit.”
Tetsuo & Youth dropped on Tuesday (January 20) but the rapper had some additional bars for the morning show.
Check out the entire interview and freestyle below:
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he said hes been looking for cudi for 6 months to beat his ass so cudi better reach out
Sway is dope, a real genuine Hip Hop (radio) personality.
“me and fam-lay sharing pictures of each others guns”
This man thugs af!
…imma miss this nigga 🙁
I hope he doesn’t retire all together.
do yourself a favor. Go to youtube and listen to all of his HITS since 2006!! This dude paved the way for a lot of cats. First guy to come out skateboarding and then Lil Wayne wanted to skate board.
ANYWAY, he has hits after hits. I’m BEAMIN
Try again, Pharrell was skateboarding waaaay before those guys.
Try again. Niggas was skateboarding huge blocks to build the pyramid before all yall cats
man i like to hear this guy speak….lupe really is intelligent, and a young’un. all gravy, and his album is awesome!
Tetsuo & Youth was a gorgeous piece of art. Its very unfortunate and sad that it will probably never get the recognition it deserves. So much more artistic, creative and focused than pretty much any hip hop record in the past 2-3 years. It’s concept-driven theme is outstanding and will sadly be overlooked by too many people. For me, to be honest, it was a huge surprise. I never expected it to be as good as it is. I just hope it won’t be his last album.
I hope he doesnt quit either. He said more albums are coming after his freestyle.
why keep dropping records? so you wannabe “fans” can groupie love it on a comment board but don’t buy a thing to support? ^that guy yep talking about “Go to youtube and listen to all of his HITS since 2006!!” and can’t tell you a verse or quote one out of 9 years of music! yall crazy
What you talkin bout fam? Actually shut your dick suckin mouth & dont answer that. You a DUMB NIGGA
Post a transcript, niggas!!
Lupe Fiasco is a real dude. Like he’s not even taking the popular pro-black “appropriation” angle here, he is always talking as an individual, even if those individual opinions don’t mesh with the status quo. Not a lot of rappers like him out there, he’s an important personality to have. Even if he thinks white people came from outer space or whatever the fuck, you need that type of personality in the game.