Lupe Fiasco isn’t worried about sales or any publication’s list of who the top rappers of all time are – he just wants to come with the bars.
On Tuesday (May 3), a fan tweeted that the Chicago native is the best lyricist out right now. Retweeting the post, Lupe wrote how he only cares about that plus his gig at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and The Society Of Spoken Art – which, per their bio, is an educational group whose goal is to introduce Rappers to the fields of Linguistics & Semiotics in an environment of their peers.
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“As a rapper in this stage of my life all I really care about is lyrics, SOSA & MIT,” Lupe wrote. “I don’t care about sales, lists, radio stations, podcasts, playlists, beats, choruses, hooks, features, videos, contracts, advances, awards, views, follower counts, battles or interviews. Joy.”
Check out the post below.
In addition to being a visiting professor at MIT since 2022, Lupe Fiasco was named a Saybrook Fellow at Yale University in March.
The announcement was shared on Twitter by the Chicago native, who referred to Yale as his “other favorite school” outside of MIT.
“Proud to announce I’ve been chosen to be a Saybrook Fellow at my OTHER favorite school in the whole wide world outside of MIT…@Yale,” Lupe tweeted. “Shout to Tom Near for nominating me to a place where against all odds two Chicagoans found a home in the Ivy League.”
In a separate tweet responding to the dean of Yale’s Saybrook College Head Thomas J. Near welcoming him to the Saybrook family, he added: “All kinds of honored!”
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While it’s still unclear what the fellowship will specifically entail, Saybrook College’s website reads: “The Fellowship is intended to provide students and Fellows with opportunities for discussion in an atmosphere less formal than the classroom.
“They represent a considerable potential for informal discussions of your interests, academic or otherwise, but you must seek them out and make your interests known. You will find that they are eager to meet you.”
