Groundbreaking Video Productions

Groundbreaking Video Productions is a video company from Salisbury, North Carolina. They interviewed American rapper Lupe Fiasco, the video uploaded to their YouTube channel on November 22, 2010. Contrary to the title, Fiasco does not talk about Chief Keef or Barack Obama.
== Interview ==
Title 	Date 	Video
"Lupe Fiasco Explains Problem with Chief Keef and Obama" 	November 22, 2010 	
Lupe Fiasco discusses his new album "Lasers", his supergroups, B.O.B., his choice to make positive music, etc.	Lupe Fiasco discusses his new album "Lasers", his supergroups, B.O.B., his choice to make positive music, etc.	Lupe Fiasco discusses his new album "Lasers", his supergroups, B.O.B., his choice to make positive music, etc.
Lupe Fiasco 	What up, what up, this is Lupe Fiasco. And you're checking out Groundbreaking Video Productions, you heard? 	
"Solar Midnite" plays.	"Solar Midnite" plays. 	"Solar Midnite" plays.
GVP 	Lasers 	
Lupe Fiasco 	Lasers stands for Love Always Shines Everytime, Remember to Smile. Um, and it's really about, just, you know, raising awareness. Shining the light in the face of the darkness, you know what I'm saying? Um, getting people to kind of activate and stand up, you know, for what's right in the world. It was more demanded by the fans than we thought it was actually going to be, you know. Um, but it's-it's that it's-it's more of a popular record than any of my other albums, um. It's a little bit more controversial, you know, than my other albums. And it's a little bit more accessible, you know what I'm saying? That my other albums you don't have to be a hardcore Lupe Fiasco fan to get it and rock with it and like it, you know? So it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a good thing.
The hold up on Lasers was was basically just kind of a mis—uh, not necessarily a misunderstanding, but more so just kind of like a. That classic battle between artists and label, you know what I'm saying? Doing the songs and making the music and making moves that I want to make, um, and them wanting me to do the music and make the moves that they wanted me to make, um. And, you know, shout out to Julie Greenwald who's president of Atlantic Records, who kind of came in and was able to kind of articulate what the label wanted, you know, respectfully, for me to get it. And at the same time, too, she talked back to the label to articulate, respectfully, what I wanted, you know. So it's kind of like that-that cooperative spirit, but everything's good right now.
When the fans petitioned for me and then went on to do a protest, you know, it made me feel good, you know. It made me feel like I had an actual backing out there. Which I actually do in a hardcore fanbase, but I never expected them to come out like that. The world didn't expect them to come out like that, um. So, you know, made me feel good.	
GVP 	Child Rebel Soldier 	
Lupe Fiasco 	Me and Pharrell and Kanye got a group called Child Rebel Soldiers. Um, you know, and it's kind of more like a side project, you know. Just to do for not-not really like a real serious thing that we're putting everything into, but you know. It exists, we do records, you know. We might put out an album soon, we'll see. 	
GVP 	All City Chess Club 	
Lupe Fiasco 	All City Chess Club is a um, like a super group, um. But not like not like a, not like a group and like you would think of like Wu-Tang. It's more like, just kind of like a union almost, like just kind of showing, you know, solidarity-solidarity between all the newer vanguard of rappers, you know what I'm saying? Like the new, the new groups like Asher Roth, B.o.B is in it, uh, J. Cole's in it, Wale's in it, Mickey Factz is in it, Diggy's in it, um. Cool Kids in it, Dosage in the Sky, Zoo is in it, Blu is in it, and it's more. It's really a, is and it's going to be more than that, you know, the way it's looking. So, you know. All City Chess Club is just kind of like, you know. It's hard to get fourteen dudes on one song, so it's more about just kind of like making sure we all just staying in contact with each other in a way or whatever it got going on, so.
All City Chess Club was an idea between, uh. Myself, uh, 3H. Shout-out to 3H, um. Charles Hamilton, and The Cool Kids. We was all in, and all just happened to be in L.A. and just was like, "yo, while we here let's do a song" and um, then it just went to "yo, let's put, let's put Ash on it, you know, let's put Blu on it, let's put—" You know, just kind of blew into its own little thing. 	
GVP 	"Nothin' on You" 	
Lupe Fiasco 	I had "Nothin' on You," um, you know. And it's just B.o.B. had a, B.o.B made it a better record, you know. So it's like give it to B.o.B, you know, let him go do it, and he-he achieved a lot of success off that, so. 	
GVP 	B.o.B 	
Lupe Fiasco 	I don't look at B.o.B as being similar to me other than, than we look alike because B.o.B actually know how to play music you know he plays the guitar he sings um. I think he's less of a rapper, and more of a musician, you know what I'm saying? Than anything else, um. But nah, that's my man, so I rock with B.o.B.
There's a-a ton of like Mos Def, Talib Kweli. We all come from that same vein, OutKast, and different people. You could definitely see it in B.o.B. We come from kind of the same soil, you know what I'm saying? Share some of the same influences, so that kind of carries over into us and what we do you know and we-we are like. And like you said, we are like in-in that way, because we come from some of the same places, you know. 	
GVP 	Music 	
Lupe Fiasco 	Um, well for me I try and keep my music, I always try and keep my music positive, you know. I always look at what everybody else isn't doing, you know what I'm saying? And do that. I look at my music as just kind of being a balance, you know what I'm saying? Right now, it's just a lot of negativity in the commercial space, you know. So for me, I just feel it's my obligation, artistically. But at the same time too, almost-almost like a business decision, you know what I'm saying? Then kind of take care of and handle the-the-the-the people the customers that they missing, you know what I'm saying, because it's the majority of people don't really want to hear the negativity, you know. Um, every day like that, you know. They want other type of music that. They can vibe wouldn't sit down with and as you can see a lot of them negative music don't really sell like that you know what I'm saying? They ain't like going going platinum in a week kind of situation. They got to work just as hard as the, as the conscious and the positive rappers at the same time. So, for me it's just kind of like a-a-a choice. I feel better about knowing that I put out positive music at the end of the day when I look back at my career, as opposed to putting on negative music, you know. 	
GVP 	Islam and Faith 	
Lupe Fiasco 	I'm a Muslim, I was born Muslim. Islam is always a misunderstood thing. Any religion is misunderstood, you know what I'm saying? Religion is about faith, and it's kind of hard to explain faith to people because faith isn't something that you can measure, or something that you can kind of, kind of. Two plus two equals four kind of situation, you know what I'm saying? It's like a two plus two equals five kind of thing, um, so with any faith there's always, you know, misunderstandings and misconceptions about it. Um, Islam I just think is-is because it's been put in the public eye so in such a crazy way via movies and-and just the way the press. There's like such an ignorance about it, you know, that anytime anything happens it's kind of like scared, you know? Everybody kind of like jump into conclusions about it. But at the same time too, a large part of the public, you know, understands it. Um, you know, and there's a lot of kind of interfaith work that goes on in different communities around the country that I'm aware of, and a part of that kind of. The main, the main purpose is to kind of educate people on Islam but at the same time to educate Muslims about other faiths, you know? Because it's a, it's a you know it's a two-way thing. 	
GVP 	Howard Zinn 	
Lupe Fiasco 	Well I had the opportunity of uh, last year. Excuse me, last year, um, to actually get introduced to Howard Zinn, um. Howard Zinn as a, as a, as a professor. He passed away, but he's a professor who actually wrote a book called The People's History United States of America. And The People's History of the United States of America was kind of like the the history of America written by the people. Not by the generals, not by the politicians, um, not by the rich people. It was written by the poor people, and it was the experiences of like the slaves and experiences of the abolitionists and the union workers and just kind of the everyday activist and person, um. I actually got a chance to do—they actually did a documentary about it, um. They had like, uh, people such as myself, and celebrities. Danny Glover, uh, and a ton of other people. Music—John Legend—artists and musicians and actors come out and actually read pieces from the book. And it was called the, uh, The People Speak. Um, and I got a chance to meet Howard and-and you know, uh, got got really involved with the project in the book, um. And it's a good thing, you know. I think it's something everybody should read, you know. It's a big book but I think it's something everybody should at least try and get into. For one thing, it made me really see America in a different light.	
GVP 	First Record Deal 	
Lupe Fiasco 	My first record deal, I got when I was around 18, 19 years old, I was signed to Raw Dope, Epic Records, um. And it was really in a, in a group called Da Pak, and it was really kind of my first experience in the, in the music business, you know. So I was real naive, um, you know. But it was my, it was my kind of, you know, my-my-my crucible, you know. I learned the hard way, you know, fast. It was like you this-this is something my education about the music business came from. It wasn't the best experience, you know what I'm saying? I-I-I went through all the ups and downs and all the negative parts that people talk about in the music business, from publishing to, you know, fake promoters and all type of other craziness, you know. But I don't regret it, I'll go through it again, um, you know, to get the learning experience and the things that I know now. 	
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