Lupe Fiasco has shared his excitement at having an early-career freestyle mentioned on Jeopardy! — calling the experience “another circle filled.”
On Thursday (March 6), the rapper posted a short clip of the game show’s episode the previous night to Instagram. The answer was: “While Kanye West made ‘Jesus Walks’, Lupe Fiasco remixed the beat to make this 7th century religious figure ‘walks’.”
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The question, guessed correctly by contestant Roger Craig, was “Who is Muhammad?”
“Out of all the things in the world that I never thought would happen or even knew could happen or even knew I wanted…another circle fulled,” Fiasco wrote. “Mission Accomplished. Roger That! RIP Alex Trebek.”
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He hashtagged the post #Jeopardized.
Fiasco’s “Muhammad Walks” was a freestyle released before his debut album, and collected on his mixtape Fahrenheit 1/15: The Truth is Among Us.
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Check out the IG post and, just for fun, the original freestyle below.
Lupe has had other notable successes recently, notably a flurry of new RIAA certifications – including what stands as his biggest one yet.
On February 27, the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) awarded the Chicago rhymer with 10 new platinum and gold certifications. 2010’s “The Show Goes On” is now officially 7x platinum, making for his best-selling record to date.
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Additionally, 2012’s “Battle Scars” featuring Guy Sebastian and 2007’s “Superstar” are now 3x platinum, while 2011’s “Lasers,” 2006’s “Kick Push” and 2006’s “Daydreaming” with Jill Scott are now platinum. And now gold for Lupe is 2011’s “Words I Never Said” with Skylar Grey and “Out Of My Head” with Trey Songz, 2007’s “Hip-Hop Saved My Life” with Nikki Jean and 2013’s “Old School Love” with Ed Sheeran.
In other Lupe Fiasco news, he recently announced an AI-powered radio station he’s dubbed ‘Endless LUP’ that will soon see its way to FM dials.
In a post to Instagram, Lupe revealed that the platform will be rolled out this year.
“Imagine if there was a 24 hour fully AI powered radio station trained on all the intricacies of my Rapping abilities and was carefully refined to produce the highest quality possible Lupe Fiasco songs,” he said. “Now imagine it only played a generated song once and never again endlessly…now imagine that radio station was only available for certain periods of time and only in certain locations and you needed an actual FM radio to hear the songs.
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“Imagine I put a team together at MIT and imagine we actually built it…ENDLESS LUP coming soon.”
