Lupe Fiasco says he won’t be releasing his Roy LP as one of his final projects and has named DROGAS, DROGAS light* and SKULLS as his final three albums.
The Chicago rapper sent out a series of tweets today (April 14) about the proposed projects, labeling Drogas “The Story Of An Album.”
“SKULLS will be my last album,” he writes. “There will be no more albums after the 2016 release of SKULLS.”
Lupe’s tweets are as follows:
(The original post in this thread was published January 8, 2016. It is as follows.)
Lupe Fiasco plans to retire after Roy, according to a tweet from the rapper today (January 8).
“”Roy” will be my last album. LUPend,” Lupe Fiasco wrote on twitter.
In December, Lupe announced the titles of his next three releases, which he said would all be released in 2016. Roy was one of the projects named.
The Chicago rapper has talked about retiring for several years.
In 2008, Lupe Fiasco said he would be retiring soon. “It was 96% about a week ago,” he said in January 2008 after performing in Las Vegas. “I just get tired you know? I get tired. It’s a tiring pace that I keep. You see that [show I just did]? I gotta do that again tomorrow. With this [hoarse] voice I gotta find a way to do it again. Then get on a bus for 16 hours, get up and do it all over again for the next two weeks.”
On September 5, 2012, Lupe Fiasco said he would retire after the release of Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album, which was arrived in stores September 25, 2012. “my heart is broken and i see no comfort further along this path only more pain. I cannot participate any longer in this,” he tweeted at the time.
Lupe Fiasco’s tweet from today is as follows:
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What about The Cool 2?
Your last album should’ve been 2 albums ago. Ain’t no one checking for your weird ass. Foh. Roy? Like Brandon… retire early. At least I miss Brandon Roy, you? NA… foh.
He’s referencing the character “Roy” from “Blade Runner” but yep I even remember after he released his debut album he said that he was only going to release 3 albums in total. That backfired? I’ll take new music but enough with the attention seeking. Either make it your last album or not
He dropped an amazing album last year called Tetsuo and Youth. A ton of people still love his music. You can get the fuck outta here.
Thank god for Lupe fiasco
ain’t this nigga been retiring his whole career?
Wtf is this hate on here? Jayz was supposed to retire with the Black album and he made this.huge retirement promo just to sell his bs music to the zombies. I didn’t see yall criticizing jayz, matter of fact yall kissed his ass even more.
You can hate Lupe all you want, but Jayz immediately said he was going to co-produce his.debut album after first hearing him…and he did!
I def criticized Jay for that, straight marketing gimmick
Cant blame Lupe. Hip Hop is dead
BEST NEWS ALL DAY! : )
Trust me,
He’s going to drop 3 classics and leave. After these albums hip hop will die.
In this world where only garbage trap music gets any attention I don’t blame him.
Why announce your retirement which is in 1 year + three more albums later and consider yourself to still be great? Your thirsty Lupe, what happened to you ?
baby teeth ass nigga
WTF he promised us “The Cool” 2 in 2017!! He released cover art for christs sake
Lupe is a fucking dope mc easily one the best in the last 10 years really like lot of his music but some the statements he says piss me off cause he just sounds like a whinney bitch emo kid talking bout how he is tired and its so hard to go perform a show for thousands of $$ and then sleep on a nice tour bus to the next show try working in a factory or selling drugs cause you got no other options
Come get in this ass sexy boys
Don’t confuse my actual skill level with your personal opinion. ~ Lupe Fiasco
If yu are gonna retired fo eal, then go o hell!! You never really appreciate our tru fans!
Tetsuo & Youth was an outstanding album…I don’t blame him for hanging it up, he’s getting older and hiphop is just a slight variation of pop music anyway. Katy Perry has harder beats than most of these “hot” rappers. Lupe is one of those rappers that can balance commercial sound and great lyricism. Unfortunately hiphop doesn’t want that, we want the same old bullshit rhymes about the same old bullshit every other rapper is talking about…hiphop is just an advertisment for high end luxuries that its fanbase has to sacrafice actual necessities for. But hey, when you step out into those pissy project hallways, you do it in style with some J’s and a Louis belt.
Dude was always weird as fuck, and not in a good way, but he was a good lyricist and brought something new to the table. T&Y is overrated as fuck in my opinion, production just doesn’t cut it, and even tho i was never a big fan of Lupe nor i bumped his music twice a year and i could care less if he retires, but i will be happy if he actually releases all three of these albums (which i doubt), and whatever the fuck happened to Cool 2, i dont give a shit anymore, tired of all these rappers’ always-bitchin ass.
bump twice a year but got the nerve to say t&y was overrated ok….
^ lmao . Exactly
lupe fiasco saying he’s retiring is like dmx getting’ arrested
So LupEnd is scrap? I would he put one of the slaughterhouse group in one these album or bring in gemstone or whatever he’s calling his self these days.
What about The Cool 2??? Was that some type of cruel, sick joke??
Can’t wait……thank god for anything from lupe
NIGGAS BEEN RETIRING SINCE BEFORE HIS DEBUT.
The day after the release of SKULLS: “UPDATE: my stage name from now on is Roy. Debut album called ‘Early Retirement’ coming soon!”
LOLOLOL exactly!!
never trust a lupe fiasco announcement. he said he’d quit after “the great american rap album” too, which ended up being F&L 2. he retires right before every album.