In a new interview with VIBE, Lupe Fiasco says that though his Obama feedback earned him some shunning within the music business, they finally helped him “degree up” by opening new doorways.
The Drogas Wave rapper notes his newest environmental endeavor as a door opened. He began working with Zero Mass, an organization that makes use of photo voltaic panel expertise to create drinkable water, via the Aspen Institute, a possibility that got here solely after he expressed his views.
“When me and Obama had our state of affairs, folks stopped choosing up the cellphone and type stepped again,” he says. “That door closes, however the door that opens up is one thing just like the Aspen Institute or the CEO Heineken, and now these are my associates.”
These new associates are those Lupe is making music for. His final album, Drogas Wave, centered across the idea Longchains, who’re former slaves that stay beneath the ocean and sink slave ships. Whereas it peaked at solely #60 on the Billboard 200 and made HipHopDX’s Most Disappointing Rap Albums 2018, Lupe says the album was his means defining himself.
“It doesn’t matter if I promote one million information, I’m cool promoting 5 information. However I’m going to promote 5 information to the 5 strongest folks on the planet after which we’re gonna exit and companion and alter issues,” he says.
Lupe Fiasco is at the moment engaged on his subsequent, and presumably final, album, Skulls. Though he’s sitting on music, he says he’s not “dashing” to get again into the sport and desires to take care of deal with his environmental efforts.