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Wasalu Muhammad Jaco , better known by his stage name Lupe Fiasco , is an American rapper, record producer, entrepreneur, and activist. He rose to fame in 2006 following the success of his debut album, Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor. He also performs as the frontman of rock band Japanese Cartoon under his real name. As an entrepreneur, Fiasco is the chief executive officer of 1st and 15th Entertainment.

Raised in Chicago, Jaco developed an interest in hip hop after initially disliking the genre for its use of vulgarity and misogyny. After adopting the name Lupe Fiasco and recording songs in his father's basement, 19-year-old Fiasco joined a group called Da Pak. The group disbanded shortly after its inception, and Fiasco soon met rapper Jay-Z who helped him sign a record deal with Atlantic Records. In September 2006, Fiasco released his debut album Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor on the label, which received three Grammy nominations. He released his second album, Lupe Fiasco's The Cool, in December 2007. The lead single "Superstar" became his first top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. After a two-year delay, Lasers was released in March 2011 to mixed reviews; however, it became his first album to debut at number one on the Billboard 200. His latest album, Drogas Wave, was released in September 2018.

In addition to music, Fiasco has pursued other business ventures, including fashion. He runs two clothing lines, Righteous Kung-Fu and Trilly & Truly; he has designed sneakers for Reebok. He has been involved with charitable activities, including the Summit on the Summit expedition, and in 2010 he recorded a benefit single for victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Fiasco is also noted for his anti-establishment views, which he has expressed in both interviews and his music. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. February 1982
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Famous Lupe Fiasco Quotes

“Knowledge alone is not power, knowledge plus action equals power. Knowledge is useless without action and vice versa.”

Lupe Fiasco

Rules 2 Rule

“Try not to measure your success by the success of others. Success should be defined by one person…Yourself.”

Lupe Fiasco

Rules 2 Rule

“Your child's future was the first to go with budget cuts,
if you think that hurts then wait here comes the upper-cut,
the school was garbage in the first place that's on the up and up.”

Lupe Fiasco

Albums, Lasers (2011)

“Made me a ripper, deliver like a river, content a little more thicker, slicker…and they said
oil and water don't mix, now they all down at the beach washing off the fish.”

Lupe Fiasco

"Pressure"
Albums, Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor (2006)

“My teacher's like, "Mr. Jaco?" "Yes?" "With all that knowledge, You aint trying to go to college? Be a lawyer or a doctor, Get a whole lotta dollars? Rather degrade women and glorify violence?" "Well the work that works for me might not work for you No homework, I got work to do."”

Lupe Fiasco

"Be Somebody"
Features/Unreleased/Others

“The truth.. is limitless in its range, If you drop a 'T' and look at it in reverse it could hurt”

Lupe Fiasco

"Glory"
Mixtapes, Fahrenheit 1/15 Part II: Revenge of the Nerds (2006)

Lupe Fiasco Quotes about love

“Choose respect over fame every time. Fame is just attention. Respect is an attribute of love.”

Lupe Fiasco

Rules 2 Rule

“I love my city really hope that God bless it, have my mind moving faster than that Hog in the Hedges”

Lupe Fiasco

"I Gotcha"
Albums, Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor (2006)

“Some will love you. Some will hate you. Most won't care about you either way. This world is all Good vs. Evil. And I fight evil.”

Lupe Fiasco

Rules 2 Rule

Lupe Fiasco Quotes about God

“Life ain't meant to come around twice, that's why I gotta get it right. They said I gotta
get it honest, now I gotta give them light, but sleep on it, that's why God gave you night”

Lupe Fiasco

"Real"
Albums, Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor (2006)

“I only fear God, know the weapons of the weak, the weakness of the heart, and never fall asleep…”

Lupe Fiasco

"Emperor's Soundtrack"
Albums, Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor (2006)

“For we all are sinners. Bless us to be amongst the winners when it ends. But until then please strengthen the mission within our hearts. All praise is due to God”

Lupe Fiasco

"Muhammad Walks"
Mixtapes, Fahrenheit 1/15 Part I: The Truth Is Among Us (2006)

Lupe Fiasco Quotes

“Before I start, like to make sure I'm smart. Gather my composure, rather my swagger
and my couture. Pivot my fitted, then begin to rivet, with a change of lyric. In other
words, I reposition how I sit it. Then make you feel it, like I mispronounced “filet.””

Lupe Fiasco

"The Pen and the Needlez"
Mixtapes, Fahrenheit 1/15 Part I: The Truth Is Among Us (2006)

“I used to hate hip-hop, because the women degraded. But Too Short made me laugh,
like a hypocrite I played it; a hypocrite I stated, though I only recited half
omitting the word b*tch, cursing I wouldn't say it. Me and dog couldn't relate, until a b*tch I dated.”

Lupe Fiasco

Albums, Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor (2006)

“Gangsta rap-based filmings became the buildin blocks
For children with leakin ceilings catchin drippins with pots
Coupled with compositions from Pac, Nas's "It Was Written"
In the mix with my realities and feelings
Living conditions, religion, ignorant wisdom and artistic vision
I began to jot, tap the world and listen,”

Lupe Fiasco

Albums, Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor (2006)

“Consider power as NOT getting people to obey you, but getting people to work in harmony with you with the goal being mutual benefit.”

Lupe Fiasco

Rules 2 Rule

“I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence, Fear is such a weak emotion that's why I despise it.”

Lupe Fiasco

"Words I Never Said"
Albums, Lasers (2011)

“My most coveted thing is a high self-esteem, and a low tolerance for them telling me how to lean,
see the most important parts are the ones that are unseen, cause the wings don't make you fly
and the crown don't make you king”

Lupe Fiasco

"Gold Watch"
Albums, Lupe Fiasco's The Cool (2007)

“And so it seems that I'm, sewing jeans. And, 1st and 15 is just a sewing machine. So I,
cut the pattern and I, sew in seams. And, button in this hustling then publically, I'm
Buddy Lee. There's no bustin' them and cuffin' them is like. Ushering in the regime, they want
me to make Prince pants. But I withstand, I ain't gotten into that. A little big (B. I. G.) in the
waist, two-pocket (Tupac-it) on the back. Call them Lu-vi's, O. G.'s covered in blue dye”

Lupe Fiasco

Albums, Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor (2006)

“We all KNOW better, but do we actually DO better?”

Lupe Fiasco

Rules 2 Rule

“In darkness is where we truly find ourselves, in light we only find others and in others you cannot find yourself.”

Lupe Fiasco

Rules 2 Rule

“We all trying to get to where the suffering ends. In front of the Most High, being judged for our sins. Can't front for the Most High.”

Lupe Fiasco

Mixtapes, Fahrenheit 1/15 Part I: The Truth Is Among Us (2006)

“To gain a better understanding, I'm just trying to make it real/reel. Like a fisherman,
Pon De River fam. I Pon My Bank, deposit my thoughts. Till my mind draws a blank
and I withdraw from checking. I'll leave that with ya'll for a second…”

Lupe Fiasco

"Run Down"
Mixtapes, Fahrenheit 1/15 Part I: The Truth Is Among Us (2006)

“The fear that rules us comes NOT from the outside but from within. Mastering self-control also means stripping the rulers of a prized weapon.”

Lupe Fiasco

Rules 2 Rule

“Jay gave me a co-sign like I was RocaWear, but be clear I'm not the air/heir
I'm the water, fire and the earth
That means I'm doing dirt, spitting flames and quenching thirst”

Lupe Fiasco

"Popular Demand"
Mixtapes, Enemy of the State: A Love Story (2009)

“Flowers she would pick like guitar strings, for a real good whiff of how how life behind par seems.”

Lupe Fiasco

"Life, Death, And Love in San Fransisco"
Mixtapes, Friend of the People: I Fight Evil (2011)

“Rap records pressured to laugh, at a life not fast.”

Lupe Fiasco

"The Coolest"
Albums, Lupe Fiasco's The Cool (2007)

“Separate wealth from value. All living things have value. We impart this value upon lifeless things to give them worth not vice versa.”

Lupe Fiasco

Rules 2 Rule

“Heavy problems genocide desensitized environments
Sometimes make it hard to sympathize, pardon”

Lupe Fiasco

"Steady Mobbin' "
Mixtapes, Fahrenheit 1/15 Part II: Revenge of the Nerds (2006)

“A match made in Heaven, set the fires in Hell”

Lupe Fiasco

Albums, Lupe Fiasco's The Cool (2007)

“Never apologize for being real…ever. Reality is the enemy of fakes, frauds, liars and protectors of ignorance. It scares them.”

Lupe Fiasco

Rules 2 Rule

“Come across as very calm, mental state is Zen like. Always had a lot of heart, never been the tin type”

Lupe Fiasco

"Go To Sleep"
Albums, Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album (2012)

“Fear and Sex are the two most effective weapons that are used against the people. Tempering desire motivates liberation.”

Lupe Fiasco

Rules 2 Rule

“Greed redefined and corrupted what true power is. Domination is for the weak, Harmony is the true sign of strength.”

Lupe Fiasco

Rules 2 Rule

“A definition of ignorance is not KNOWING what we DO & improvement is handicapped when we don't DO what we KNOW.”

Lupe Fiasco

Rules 2 Rule

“Didn't have a clue that the rapper was helping the rapers, raiders of the villages, the
pillagers of the school…. shooters of the innocents, tortures of the witnesses, burners
of the businesses.. and my bracelet was the fuel.”

Lupe Fiasco

"Conflict Diamonds"
Mixtapes, Fahrenheit 1/15 Part II: Revenge of the Nerds (2006)

“The future's cloudy and it's rainin on the poor class.
Road to peace is closed, heavy traffic on the war paths”

Lupe Fiasco

"State Run Radio"
Albums, Lasers (2011)

“If you open up your eyes and imagine. Expand your horizon with rhyming and rapping.
Quit rapping and rhyming bout cocaine supplying. And clapping is anyone out there or are yall all absent?”

Lupe Fiasco

"Make Sure U Getta Shirt"
Mixtapes, Fahrenheit 1/15 Part III: A Rhyming Ape (2006)

“I'm not a prophet but Fahrenheit 1/15 is being quoted by preachers. Far from being a leader but I'm still being invited by teachers.”

Lupe Fiasco

"Dear Fall"
Features/Unreleased/Others

“Hennessy and Hypnotic swallowin, hydroponic coughin and
All the world's ills, sittin' on chrome 24-inch wheels”

Lupe Fiasco

"Hurt Me Soul"
Albums, Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor (2006)

“But don't forget the blessing is in the struggle. The Most Forgiving will forgive it if you stay repentant and hustle.”

Lupe Fiasco

Mixtapes, Fahrenheit 1/15 Part I: The Truth Is Among Us (2006)

“So tell my enemies that they can’t injure me, I know that irritates, you have my sympathies.”

Lupe Fiasco

Albums, Lasers (2011)

“If you feel comfortable, and you feel happy, and successful at your job, then that’s success. You define that as success, then that’s success. Success is not a general thing. It’s a personal thing. It’s a personal attribute.”

Lupe Fiasco

Rules 2 Rule

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