10/6/08 Lupe Puts Final Album On Hold To Be CEO

[fearless31666]

It seems like Lupe Fiasco is focussed on the opposite of most artists, that is being not in the spotlight. Lupe has already announced that his next album, LupEND, will be his last, now he is saying that it's on hold. Lupe wants to focus on the artists he has signed to his label 1st & 15th. "Matthew Santos, Sarah Green — I'm actually working on putting their records together, so I won't start working on my album until next year" he told MTV. [watch here]

"I gotta be CEO. It's my company, so I got to step back, because if I start doing my stuff and their stuff, I'd be like, 'Yo, why don't you come do this hook? Why don't you give me that song?' So I'm just trying not to be selfish." Lupe says he helps his artists by giving them experience, "I actually take them out on tour with me, let them perform, let them open up for me," he said. "Everything I do, I bring all my artists to do it. So I don't even give them advice as much as put them in an arena where it works, where it's real time. It's them, and they get a chance to see it in real life, and they take from it what they need." [watch here]

Source: http://www.rapbasement.com/lupe-fiasco/ ... label.html

[mcZu]

Damn why is Lupe not selfish? why...? ..... We need his album to come out quick....
But nice read

[Tash8]

as long as it's as good as the cool, i can wait a long time.

[Robbie G]

Damn why is Lupe not selfish? why...? ..... We need his album to come out quick....
But nice read

If his heart isn't in it then he's better off not.

[Hadez]

first people are striving to get T.I. a gajillion dollars, now Lupe is holding.....


why <enter religious deity here> why!?

[Tash8]

first people are striving to get T.I. a gajillion dollars, now Lupe is holding.....


why <enter religious deity here> why!?

Paper Trail was a good album, dunno why many people hate it, his lyrics aren't complex, but they do have meaning, that's more than i can say about a lot of rappers that are selling as much as he is...

[Hadez]

it wasn't "good". it was "ok".

[Tash8]

ok, maybe it was just ok, but you can't say he doesn't have any good tracks, i mean he's not lyrical but the shit he says make sense...

even tho my head in the clouds im planted on the pavement
how i walk around people starring in amazement
i play alotta game a well-being i aint playing wit it
they so judgemental man but they dont understand
if ya life was in jeopardy everyday,
is you tellin me, you wouldn't need weaponry just because of ya felony's
consider this at least i got everybody sweating me
on the streets theres people who wont rest unless i rest in peace
killed my folk a year ago still in my sleep they threatin me
paranoia stressin me aint nobody protecting me
im dealing wit the pressure from my partner dieing next to me
niggas know i was arrested they coming for me eventually
this was all the things that i was goin thru mentally
this could be the reason i ignored the penitentiary
not mentioning new orlean niggas comin in the city
killin all summer long aint nobody pay attention
now is it that hard to understand if you listen
either die or go to jail thats a hell of decision
but im wrong and i know it my excuses unimportant
im just tryna let you know that i aint think i had a choice

cuz niggas out there plottin to rob me and kill me
500,000 every year spent on security
my future was bright but now its gettin blury
cuz niggas in a hurry to find me and bury me
but surely God'll deliver me up out it
ima fighter till the heart i'll foreva be about it
ima father to my sons as it to my community
look all that i done my good out weigh the negativity
ey mentally i was focused on not lettin history repeat itself
thats why he was kept in a vicinity
yes offically i broke the law but not maliciously
through all the publicity was anyone considering
my position and the logic hidden in my decision
but they caught me wit em now im off to prison, PERIOD

[Hadez]

there were one or two i liked. so like i said, it was ok.

funny how standards for words dropped. good is used to judge ok. classic is used to judge it as "good". and legendary is classic. they all went down a step.

[Tash8]

there were one or two i liked. so like i said, it was ok.

funny how standards for words dropped. good is used to judge ok. classic is used to judge it as "good". and legendary is classic. they all went down a step.

no i still think, good is good, ok is ok, classic is classic, and legendary is legendary.