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His debut studio album *Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor* (2006) was met with critical success, noted for his cerebral and socially conscious lyricism. This was followed by *Lupe Fiasco's The Cool* (2007), a concept album centered around street and gang violence, loss of loved ones, and reflections around all things associated with "cool." While he experienced difficulties with his record label, Atlantic, his third album *Lasers* (2011) finally dropped after a fan petition and a protest outside of the label's NYC office. Despite *Lasers* generating negative or mixed critic reviews, it became his first number one album on the US *Billboard* 200, propelled by the charted singles "The Show Goes On" and "Words I Never Said." His next album, *Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1* (2012), delved into the sociopolitical landscape with topics of colonialism, racism, and issues in America; fans saw *Tetsuo & Youth* (2015) as a comeback with more positive response according to music critic consensus. While *Drogas Light* (2017) was supposed to be his first project's departure from Atlantic, it was heavily critiqued and compared to the commercialized *Lasers*. *Drogas Wave* (2018) met the bar for another high concept album, about a group of slaves who jumped overboard the ship. Rather than dying, they lived underwater and made it their mission to drown any slave ships. Reviews for this were generally positive, and the record revolved around the manilla—currency that was used during the Atlantic slave trade. Four years later, *Drill Music in Zion* (2022) was released, which he considered to be his *Illmatic*, otherwise known as his magnum opus.
Throughout the span of his career, Lupe has been nominated for twelve Grammys, won the USA's Character Approved Awards in 2007, and was honored the Chicagoness Award in 2017 for his musical and philanthropic efforts. He is part of the groups Child Rebel Soldier, Japanese Cartoon, and SNDCLSH, where the latter two depart from hip hop and experiment in rock and EDM, respectively. Through his music, you may learn about gentrification, child soldiers, the Audubon Ballroom, settler colonialism, Black civil rights leader and activist Dick Gregory, names of slave ships, names of Black lives to be remembered, and conspicuous consumption. You may also, after several listens, catch his use of analogies, wordplay, double entendres, and personification. Additionally, he has ventured into entrepreneurship, being co-founder of the record label 1st & 15th with Charles "Chilly" Patton, entertainment studio Studio SV with Bonnie Chan Woo, and launched the fashion line Trilly & Truly. He has appeared in several documentaries, including *The People Speak* (2009), *Summit on the Summit* (2010), *Monochrome* (2021), and *Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World* (2023).

* He considers himself to be a student of Jay-Z, whom he has studied lyrically and respects. Jay-Z had stated to Cornel West in 2010: "I thought [Lupe] was an extraordinary writer […] If you sit down and really listen to some of the things that this young man has said, it's like you can't believe it."
* Along with being a rapper, entrepreneur, lecturer at MIT, and painter, Fiasco has published stories. His short story "This City Is a Robot" was written for *Chicago Sun-Times*. "Reflections of a Window Washer" appeared in the print edition of *BLAG* magazine. He is also in the process of writing *Wave*, the accompanying graphic novel to his seventh studio album.
* He participated in Nike's 2009 Basketball MVP comedy commercials, where he voiced the reindeer, Blitzen, who sings a diss track aimed at Santa Clause (voiced by KRS-One).
* He is part of the educational guild, Society of Spoken Art, for rappers "looking to expand what it means to be a rapper through the academic study of language sciences, computation [and] cognitive science." Their motto is *Firmitas, Utilitas, Venustas* (Solid, Useful, Beautiful). He presented the institution at the 2019 Para Site International Conference in Hong Kong, China.
* He wrote an open letter on white supremacy in 2015, where he denounced it and concluded, like everyone else, is "regularity."
* Along with his love of video games, Japanese culture, jazz music, and game of ur, he is passionate about cars.
* He made a cameo on the American drama television series, *One Tree Hill* (S4, E4), where he performed his songs "Kick, Push" and "I Gotcha" live. Another cameo was on the American musical drama television series, *Empire* (S4, E12), where he purchases an apartment.
* In collaboration with Google, they created the artificial intelligence (AI) tool, TextFX, to assist rappers, writers, and wordsmiths. It launched to the public on August 2, 2023, where Fiasco created the song "Glass of Water" as an example.

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**Lupe Fiasco Responds to Joe Budden Trolling His Freestyle Over André 3000 Track, Compares Spotify Listener Averages - Complex - - 2023/11/29 08:00**

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