Lupe Fiasco’s time on Clubhouse, the popular audio-only social media app, has yielded pretty fascinating moments such as his thoughts on vaccines, Roc-A-Fella history and more. On Friday (December 4), the Food & Liquor architect shared his writing process inside of the app’s Rhymen Shop room before freestyling over Beanie Sigel’s 2001 Kanye West-produced single “Nothing Like It.”
Although screen recording is generally frowned up in the Clubhouse, Lupe decided to repeat the freestyle for his fans and title it “Mobb Deep” and then share the full freestyle on his social media accounts.
“Bars feel like Wittier Blvd full of cars/You just focus on getting to the paint, I’ll focus on the lobs,” Lu raps on the track. “We call that there doing our jobs, alley on purpose/Never off odds, jumping out the gym/Landing on the stars/Shout out to the Mobb.”
Lu’s desire to return to normalcy in 2021 following the COVID-19 pandemic has been well documented. More recently, he made a bold declaration, telling fans he’d only allow them to see him perform if they had a COVID-19 vaccine.
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Last week, he shared an Instagram post featuring a CNET article with the headline “Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine will go into use in the UK next week” with the caption, “Let’s Get Get Get It!!!! You will be required to be vaccinated to come to my concerts.”
GOAT lyricist
Wow, for someone who used to seem to really know what was going (songs like Hurt Me Soul and Things I Never Said) what a complete idiot he’s become. Vaccinated to go to his concert? No thanks. I went to his concert in October 2018 at Sony Hall in NYC. It was trash, him just rapping over his songs on a small as stage, didn’t even seem into it. No showmanship. I wouldn’t pay to see him again let alone get a vaccine. And I was a Lupe fan from when he first started. Now he’s just another leftist shill. No one cares about him or his freestyle.
It wasn’t a freestyle. He didn’t repeat it later. He wrote the verse in real-time step by step, including research and recording. He did so in order to teach his audience about his process. It was a 3 hour discussion, much like when a producer creates a beat live and hosts a Q&A.
He also created the room Rhymen Shop. It’s not a room provided by the clubhouse app.