On at least two separate occasions, members of the media have scrutinized Lupe Fiasco’s interactions with fellow Chicagoan, President Obama. In addition to further explaining his quotes about the Middle East on “Words I Never Said,” Lupe told DJ Whoo Kid and Ben Lyons about the over analysis of his decision not to shake the President’s hand during a recent meeting.
“Actions speak louder than words,” Lupe explained. “I always revert back to that Outkast [‘Aquemeni’] when Andre asked, ‘Is every nigga with dreads for the cause / Is every nigga with golds for the fall / Naw /So don’t get caught up in appearance…”
Lupe said that just because President Obama is black, it doesn’t change the fact that he’s President of the United States—“the most corrupt regime on the planet.” His statement echoed similar remarks made by both KRS-One and dead prez. Lupe further added that he didn’t specifically have a problem with President Obama, but rather with the corrupt political system.
“We have a government that’s catered toward the corporate forces,” Lupe added. “You gonna see that over the next two years while [Obama’s] still gonna be in office. There are things going on right now that are going to roll out in the next two years. Services for the people will be eliminated for the sake of kowtowing to some corporate interests, insurance lobbyists and big farms.”
Lupe Fiasco specifically pointed last May’s $938 billion Health Care Bill and the $1.049 trillion legislation set for a House vote later this week which narrowly avoided first federal government shutdown in 15 years. The full interview with DJ Whoo Kid and Ben Lyons is available at RadioPlanet.tv.
HEY, Mr. I got it all figured out. Your stupid, you think the U.S. would be what we love if we didnt have Large Corporations that give us jobs and create income for investment back into our economy. Someone has an idea and starts a business and thats bad? What color is the sky in your world?
You are very miseducated, if that’s your response to this. Some 5th grader shit. Read some more and you will know what this guy is talking about. Least someone is up there calling these people out.
I agree with you, I hate artists who try to label them as smart and better than others, and at the same time they show complete lack of education and reality with their comments… I’m not trying to take his flow away, but this guy is an idiot.
Free-market capitalism is definitely a good thing — the problem is when corporations run the government and write special laws that give them certain privileges and bailouts.
We don’t have a free-market, we have corporatism — huge difference.
Ron Paul 2012
Having a free market and the ability to make as much money as you want is great assuming that theres an endless supply of money to go around. Look at the wealth stats for this country and prepare to be shocked and awed at the fact that 1 percent of the country controls the majority of the money here.
i was talking about lupe
Lupe is right its called the new world order don’t believe ur tv set do some research wells fargo launders mexican drug money http://www.infowars.com don’t be a sheep
Lupe is right its called the new world order don’t believe ur tv set do some research wells fargo launders mexican drug money infowars dot com don’t be a sheep
Lupe is right its called the new world order don’t believe ur tv set do some research wells fargo launders mexican drug money don’t be a sheep read infowars,or prison planet
Lupe fiasco career might be in “fiasco” , currently no big hit on the radio and he’ll struggle to reach 500,000 copies sold.
Its like jay said
“you had a spark when you first started but now you just garbage “
lupe never really had a big hit on the radio so your comment is void
young .. whens your album coming out?
Paul/Ventura 2012
I like his music but can do without his political discussion.
Then you don’t really like his music.
Yeah, Id love to hear about his bank account or how clean his shoes are.
Illuminati is gonna shut this nigga up if he doesnt stop! lol
You know the government’s pissed that Lupe introduced Building 7 to hundreds of thousands of music listeners
Exactly!! and he’s speaking out way too much lately!! Im all for his music but for his sake, he needs to calm down but i love that he is not afraid!!
the government but not the freak-en ‘mason” country club lol
you don’t have to be powerful just to be a mason
you think the gov’t is really worried about that song? as long as lil wayne, kanye west, nicki, jayz, eminem…etc are selling way more records, the gov’t don’t got to be worried about nothing.
Check out “Loose Change 9/11”
illuminati aint gonna do shit but sit back until we killuminati
Besides Immortal Technique, Lupe is the only dude that ain’t scared to open his mouth and talk about real problems. “Words I Never Said” is probably one of his best tracks. The only one that’s a classic on his new Pop album besides “All Black Everything”. Lasers was wak but F&L2 should be a classic album all the way through. Hopefully he touches on nothing but real problems, cause he’s his best when he does (“Hurt Me Sould” “American Terrorist” “Streets On Fire” “Hello/Goodbye”, ect…)
Anyone know anyone else who talks about the kinda shyt ImmortalTech and Lupe talk about?? Cause that’s what I been feeling like listening to lately…..The Truth
nas “untitiled” “sly fox” “america” “were not alone”
Lupe is still signed to Atlantic. What makes you think “Food & Liquor 2”- IF such a record ever comes out- will be any good at all?
please…..nas isn’t exposing shit!!
listen to those songs i listed and then talk faggot.
Ill Bill, Pharaoh Monch, Non Phixion, Saigon, Talib Kweli, Mos Def…Basically anybody hip hop artists that are rarely found on the tv/radio. Also notice how congress/the government were trying their hardest to shutdown hip hop when it was politically minded during the 90’s. They said it was too vulgar and other stuff like that…Now you look at todays music which is even more vulgar and nasty yet the artists only talk about their money, bitches, drugs and nothing political. You dont hear congress or anybody bitching about the music now that its become a mind killer for todays youth.
Nas isn’t exposing “shit”? So clearly you haven’t heard Distant Relatives right?
exactly.
can’t believe the realest group in hip hop is not mention….DEAD PREZ!!!!
joe5286:
Free-market capitalism is definitely a good thing — the problem is when corporations run the government and write special laws that give them certain privileges and bailouts.
We don’t have a free-market, we have corporatism — huge difference.
Ron Paul 2012
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Are You kidding me? Any and all parts of capitalism is a BAD THING….capitalism, by its very nature is a blood sucking system that survives off the labor of the peasants/workers….every problem in society today can be directly linked to the capitalist (imperialist, fascist, neo-colonialist) society……i say Death to capitalism and LIfe to Pan Africanism!!! if you don’t know what it means…..read Kwame Nkrumah! The Greates African!
I was with you until you started talking about pan africanism. Im not trying to live the way they do in Africa at all man.
i don’t think you understand capitalism. read ‘wealth of nations’…
Pan Africanism simply means the quickest fix to African people’s problem is an united and liberated Africa, in the hands of Africans and not the neo colonial puppets with Black faces. It doesn’t necessarily mean we have to go back to Africa (nothing wrong with that though was Africa is free of its resource stealers), but that we Africans around the world will see this equation manifested…Land=Wealth=Power=Liberation=Respect….an example is an Chinese person, can go any where in the world and br respected, without even opening their mouth….its beacuse of your analysis of China as a Power…too bad this concept is flying over so many peoples head, all of our leaders were pan africanist or was heading that way…..Malcolm X, Kwame Nkrumah, WEB Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Paul Robeson, even MLK saw the potential in a liberated Africa, when he acceptred Nkrumahs invitation to attend Ghana’s Independence. Enough science dropping for the night, big up Lupe for even seeing the contradictions in Obama…..who aint done a damn thang!
last time i check this is a hip hop site, get this political garbage out of here
you got a small mind eh bro?
But you would be the type to dance along to songs like “my president is black”. Knowledge is power and people need to know whats really going.
Then why click the article if it obviously said “Federal budget cuts political corruption” you knew that this article was about politics you stupid pig. >->
small mind equals small weiener?
Yea it’s not like the start of hip hop was based of political subject matter…fucking idiot you shouldn’t be on a hip-hop site for that dumb statement
I understand Lupe’s side of it but I feel as though he picked up a pre created philosophy towards life. Lupe:”No matter who is in office I am going to criticize them, Anarchy, Wooo Rebellion, Woo thats whats cool I am a rebel among rebels.”, idk too me I feel he plays devils advocate without being truly knowledgeable about the specifics of politics and how the political system works…just my 2 cents.
check out the documentary ‘inside job’… the financial meltdown is a perfect and recent example of the corruption that goes beyond republicans/democrats.
You sound like the exact person you’re describing. And a majority of America is the same way…People sit back watching reality tv, eating fast food, partying and have no clue what happens outside of this country…Most barely even know what the hell is going on in this country.
i don’t have a small mind , but music and sports are similar in the way that they let you escape the terrible world we live in and politics is a part of the problem in the grand scheme of things and i don’t want it see it on this site ya feel me
No. I do’t feel you. It’s that escapist attitude that has led to these types of problems in our society in the first place. Point blank. Period.
Agree completely with Fail here, that’s a terrible attitude to hold.
Of course there’s a place in music for escapism, but the idea that your consciousness and your entertainment should be so divided is what turned hip hop from a voice for the people into what it is now.
Pan Africanism is not a solution, it is a radical philosophical concept that excludes more than it includes. Its very existence keeps the system running, because it divides the working class, preventing it from ever truly uniting, which would be essential to overhaul the system.
Lupe’s message of anarchy is misguided, but I imagine in person, even he would admit he is not an anarchist, it doesn’t fit with his lyrics. He raps about the “garbage” school districts, Anarchy would not be the solution to this problem. Anarchy in America would mean the lack of a state, meaning the lack of school districts, hospitals etc.
Lupe’s message fits in much more with the words of Debs and socialism, which even though is depicted in the media as a bad word, literally is for the people.
And for every so called Capitalist on this site, I pose the question, What are the chances you will ever actually become rich? Even if you do ‘make it’ there are still people just as deserving as you who didn’t.
I wish we could ban all ism’s and start over with the humanist party…You know, a party that does whats best for humans. Its really pretty simple if people could turn off the news opinionists and see.
honestly, lupe is one of my favorite mcs ever, i think hes got top 10 all time skills.
but sometimes he can just be annoying as fuck. its so cliche just to say “america is bad”, “the most corrupt regime in the planet.” I’m 100% for helping out those that need help, and do agree that there is so much inequality in the US. but, no shit the government has to cater to corporations… thats how the government is able to survive. if it wasnt for that then those lower class people would be worse off
You can do A LOT worse than USA for corruption. I mean that just shows a lack of perspective.
You can but if you put it like that its like saying…That guys a murderer and that guys a rapist, Ill hang out with the rapist guy cause hes not as bad as the murderer. Why not get rid of the rapist and the murderer?
this is what every person who aint in politics whos talkin about politics does this is wrong blahblahblah thats wrong blahblahblah people in politics say well heres what we can fix and this might work..at least some people are actually trying rather then talking. Thinking talking and doing-3 different things only one matters.
What politicians are doing anything to change things? Obamas extended the afghan war, gave more money to banks, let hundreds of schools close, and is trying to cut funding to even more domestic programs in order to keep the governments hunger for oil/money going.
“…blah,blah,blah”? Politicians try to fix things? Just look at the Republican proposal for the federal budget. Slash a bunch of programs for the poor & elderly to preserve tax breaks for the richest 2% who already have 40+% of the wealth in America?? Quote:”Lupe Fiasco specifically pointed to last May’s $938 billion Health Care Bill and the $1.049 trillion legislation set for a House vote later this week which narrowly avoided first federal government shutdown in 15 years.” Least Lupe understands what’s going on in his own nation…
I respect Lupe for once again having rap fans debate political issues rather than bloods/crips, that being said I think a lot of people realize how polarized Mr. Fiasco is on this issue. Of course America has many problems to fix, but to call it the most corrupt regime? The fact that he can call out his President and live to tell the tale is evidence to the contrary. The problem with America right now is obviously the economy, and when people don’t have money they get scared, they get irrational. With the media there to paint every setback as an apocalyptic turn for the worse, I’m happy we aren’t seeign rioting on the streets of washington. It shows that the common American isn’t the one they shown on tv, the common American doesn’t participate in contrived propaganda. The faults lie in the juvenile individuals we’ve chosen to represent the states. Honestly, people need to realize the pundits on TV aren’t there to aid them just because they’re relatable, the pundits and politicians are all apart of the upper class, and they all want to keep it that way. Regardless, to call America the most corrupt regime while France recently passed a blatantly prejudice law (banning of the burqa) is nonsensical. endrant.
I believe the numbers are 10% of taxpayers pay 90% of the taxes. Yet the “rich” need to pay more. Whats wrong with this picture?
Everybody seems to get a hand out and benefit from our country exept for the taxpayers? Some people do need assistance dont get it twisted.