On the heels of his departure from Twitter, Lupe Fiasco opened up about his lack of desire to be relevant today in an article posted by Billboard yesterday (January 15).
“I don’t want to be relevant today,” Lupe Fiasco says in the interview. “I don’t want to be the go-to guy for the club song or to speak on all the dumb shit that’s going around. I’m happy being that somewhat sophisticated, overly deep weird guy making powerful music – but just two or three degrees away from the center of attention. There is a new generation speaking to a new generation, so you have a Kendrick Lamar and a J. Cole and the other people who are the new Lupes. I don’t have the same lingo. I don’t sip lean or smoke weed. I can’t compete with a Wiz Khalifa for the attention of a 12-year old.”
Lupe’s new album, Tetsuo & Youth, is slated to drop January 20, and the artist said it is not a great starting place for new fans.
“I’m much more mature in my representation in public, in the sense of I’m not as relevant as I was before,” Lupe Fiasco says in the interview. “ It’s kind of that natural irrelevancy that occurs with all artists. I think I had my peak and now I am coming down in relevancy. It’s not a sad thing for me.”
Lupe Fiasco spoke about his recent decision to quit Twitter, which came after he engaged in Twitter exchange with Kid Cudi and Azealia Banks after coming to the defense of Iggy Azalea.
“You realize, ‘Oh, this is a game. Let’s play this controversy-sells game. Let me just engage this fan and have people watch this conversation,’ which is what happened,” Lupe Fiasco says. “My tweet was literally, ‘Iggy Azalea has her place in Hip Hop,’ which is so open-ended. Half the people are coming at her throat, the other half are supporting, and I’m more in the middle – it’s like, I don’t even care.”
Today HipHopDX posted a Stray Shots farewell to Lupe Fiasco’s Twitter presence.
For additional Lupe Fiasco coverage, watch the following DX Daily:
Amen to that….
co-sign
been telling y’aLL it’s over. plenty of retirement albums are coming & by end of 2016 HipHop will be in a form called contemporary rap music. this mainstream rap will be pushed on some other demographic and even y’aLL gonna be left out because y’aLL didn’t support it while you had the chance. think I’m lying? they’ve been spreading across the news some “viral” video of a 8-10 white girl rapping. video is professional, not homemade. dema went from black hood to white folk to 8-14 yr old kids. and believe when I say kendrick & cole are CONTEMPORARY, not mainstream. now y’aLL sit back and watch because it’s already in play.
Wouldn’t it mean Stat Quo gonna have the last laugh and all. He be out there working without riding label dick independent like…. we willing to let this happen?
lol
cry more you little bitch
good to know hesn ot gonna sell his soul for shit.
not to many ppl like him now adays
Lupe, your new album is the fucking SHIT! Damn, son… that production, those lyrics…
so j cole and kendrick are the new lupes? NAH LETS GET THIS CLEAR LUPE YOU WERE NEVER LIKE J COLE OR KENDRICK NEVER HAD AN ALBUM THAT WAS INCREDIBLE FROM FRONT TO BACK NEVER HAD THE RECEPTION FROM THE FANS THAT THEY DO AND YOU NEVER HAD MULTIPLE SINGLES THAT PPL ACTUALLY FUCKED W THE ONLY TWO WERE KICK PUSH AND THE SHOWS OVER SO DONT TRY TO SAY SOME DEMEANING SHIT TO MAKE YOURSELF FEEL LIKE YOU WERE EVER ON THAT LEVEL CAUSE YOU NEVER WERE!!! keep daydreamin no pun intended….
and you cant compete w wiz khalifa for the attention of a 12 yr old? wiz gotta lotta a fans 21 and over so wtf is this hating ass washed up nigga lupe talkin bout your just a fuckin hater the only thing that azalia bitch said that was the truth was u aint shit w/o kanye and u been sour ever since
Kanye? Ugh, gay man with fake kid.
FACT: All of lupe’s album have been grammy nominated, which is unheard of for a rapper.
Lupe is a better rapper than Kendrick and J Cole and all his albums are better. The only reason his album was never considered incredible is because there was other good shit dropping when he came out. In this era there is no good music, so anyone can drop a decent album and it will be hyped up and called a “classic”. If Kendrick and J Cole had dropped when Lupe dropped, they would be where Lupe is now.
yet his album has nothing but the relevant artist of today featured on it pshh lupe your dying to be relevant again you would even come out of pocket in both senses of the saying just to do so…your a fucking joke a kids prime example of how trying too hard makes you look like a fuckin dumbass
Damn lupe its like u never learn… didnt chief keef threaten to smack the shit out of you for mentioning his name? you even apologized the very next day even tho the kid threatened you LMAO…you not built for this especially the dumb shit u talkin u pussy always have been…
In the world of grown ups, being a tough guy doesn’t count for anything. The civilized people that you consider ‘pussies’ are the ones carrying losers like you while you sit around looking tough. Grow up son.
LUPE’s #TETSUO & YOUTH is going to be an album of the year contender….I AM glad LUPE realised he paved the way for the 2 huge current ICONS K DOT & J COLE……LUPE has done a whole decade of great work…..he always was in my TOP 3..and NOW he is better than KANYE WEST….and LUPE’s big break was TOUCH THE SKY…it was be4 DRAKE’s FIND YOUR LOVE with YEEZY…MUCH LOVE TO LUPE!
It’s ok you’re not
I know right, I am so happy for him. he actually won at losing. It’s all about which goals you set for yourself, he is so deep!
He should fall back from all that tweeting and shit. The problem is, he really does want that attention. With that said, all you stupid motherfuckers that have some kind of deep seeded hatred for this guy for some reason, acting like jilted lovers and shit, you’re missing out on one of the only GREAT MCs Hip-Hop still has to offer. Dude is swift as shit on the mic, if you can’t acknowledge his skills then you’re too immature to give credit where it’s due. Peace.
Spoken proper. Social media is his achilles heel. I just listened to Tetsuo & Youth, we might be talking about a miracle album.
people throw rocks at things that shine…
hip hop is so watered down right now that is a shame that artist that speak about the truth are considered washed up or Irrelevent and the ones that spit thot ones he nonsense and talk about nothing important are the ones the new generation need to wake up and take some notes from the so called old heads cause what yall doing right now bin done before and better the difference is theres no balance or knowledge in the music anymore just bullshit.