Top 80 Lupe Fiasco Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I’m not in competition with nobody. I want to make good music for my fans who want it, who enjoy it, who learn something from it. And that’s what it is.”

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52. “All the big revolutions, whether it’s the Industrial Revolution, the Arab Spring, those changes happened by economic and social shifts brought about by the people’s voices, and those things weren’t voted for. Most of our changes today are brought about through technology, not by voting.”

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53. “You know what I had a problem with? The war – the war in Afghanistan.”

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54. “The story of ‘Lasers’ is my story. I didn’t have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.”

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55. “For me, I never wore my religion on my sleeve, you know what I’m saying? I never put myself out there as Lupe Fiasco, he’s Muslim, he’s from Chicago, he likes to ride a skateboard.”

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56. “If you’re going to fight terrorism, to me, you fight the root causes of terrorism.”

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57. “The murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing and you see who’s doing it and perpetrating it, they all look like Chief Keef.”

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58. “Sometimes I wish I never found the Internet. Sometimes I regret getting a laptop and Wi-Fi for logging into the Internet because it is such a distraction. If you have any addictive personality, the Internet will magnify it.”

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59. “You can’t control it once you turn it into the label, so there’s the expectation that it’ll leak a week before the album comes out. That’s the world we live in.”

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60. “First of all, you are not really that supreme.”

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61. “I have a lot of fans in the Tea Party, and they disagree with me vehemently. But they’re fans, so we meet and connect and talk, so I’m open to everything.”

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62. “Success is a very dangerous thing and I think we have to be very careful about when we dictate what success is for somebody else. Because you don’t know what it’s like.”

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63. “I saw the dudes who would be the gangsta, big-time guys on the block, but would also be dedicated fathers. It was kind of weird to see that dual story that everybody has.”

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64. “I find it somewhat liberating to jump, to dive into things that are the opposite of me.”

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65. “I have yet to see someone attack Obama over his report card. A lot of people I talk to from both sides of the fence are like, ‘Well, what about this economy? What about these incidents?’ There are still no answers except time, but time is the answer for everything.”

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66. “The biggest terrorist is Obama.”

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67. “There is no line of demarcation between the amateurs and the pros; everyone is using the same tactics and playing in the same arenas. The only thing that separates them is radio, but the artist doesn’t control who goes to radio and who doesn’t.”

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68. “I think you have to ask yourself does voting work on the level that you are trying to effectuate change; that is the conversation you must have.”

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69. “I don’t think that politics are as complex as people like to make them seem or out to be.”

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70. “I don’t really care about the GOPs or the Democratic Party. My point is the people, giving the people truth.”

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71. “I always preach that you have to be active as a citizen no matter what, and some people just voting as an excuse not to do anything.”

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72. “The rewards we get by being those weird guys going against the grain to me are way more massive than selling a million billion records. I like climbing mountains or going on undersea dives for whales and stuff like that.”

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73. “Obama came in and gave $700 billion to the bankers off the top as opposed to giving $700 billion to the poor.”

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74. “The only person who really impressed me with making new music is Cudi. Everyone else seems to be jumping on the same music, the producer-made stuff, but the one person that’s made new music to me is Cudi.”

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75. “Hip-hop is just something I actually know how to do. But I always had aspirations to participate in other forms of music.”

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76. “I got into skateboarding when I was like a shorty. It was a toy thing.”

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77. “There’s already been black presidents who’ve been corrupt, so it doesn’t strike me that having a black man in office means he’s going to be the Messiah.”

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78. “I think that American presidents, that position in itself, as well as American foreign policy, it has terrorism in it. CIA agents going to overthrow certain governments – they’re using terrorist tactics. They’re not going in there like, ‘Hey, you wanna have some cake?’”

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79. “Faced with the way the system does you in the ’hood sometimes, if you don’t literally get out, your chances are slim. You’ll definitely die mentally. You’ll pretty much die physically.”

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80. “For me, I walk a line of fame and infamy. I walk the line of celebrity and non-celebrity.”

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81. “When I started making my own music, I was more about recreating what I was hearing. I noticed that I had some control over what I was saying, and the effects that it’s going to have on people. I wanted to focus more on the positive side of things, which are more in tune with my morals and ethics.”

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82. “You need to think about the system that you live in and the comforts that you have. But the comforts that you have that are causing the discomforts of a massive amount of people around the world.”

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83. “In my fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama, and the United States of America.”

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