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Black History Month : Lupe Fiasco

Black History Month : Lupe Fiasco. By: Rosie Moya. Lupe Fiasco & his music.

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Black History Month : Lupe Fiasco

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  1. Black History Month : Lupe Fiasco By: Rosie Moya

  2. Lupe Fiasco & his music • Lupe Fiasco, Born Wasalu Muhammad Jaco is one of Chicago’s several hip hop artists highly recognized in the music industry today. Many know him for his Alternative twist of hip hop beats and his chart-topping albums, Food & Liquor and Lasers, his most recent albums. However there are quite a few things about Lupe’s childhood that strongly affected his career in which most people may not be aware of. He is, and has been a devout Muslim and loves jazz music. In fact, before he even started rapping, he used to strongly dislike hip hop and rap music because of its vulgarity.

  3. Lupe’s Childhood • Lupe was born on the west side of Chicago, but when he was 6 years old, he moved to Harvey, Illinois with his father after his parents had divorced the previous year. They lived next door to a crack house with drug dealers, killers and gang-bangers who roamed the neighborhood. However, lupe said that he was well-educated in his home, and his father even taught him how to use guns to defend himself.

  4. About his name • Lupe went through quite a few names – Little Lu, Lu the underdog, Lupe, -- before he settled on his current stage name. he started out with “Lu,” which is the last name of his syllable of his first name, (Wasalu). It was later changed to “Lupe,” which is basically and extension of “Lu,” borrowed from a high school friend. Since then, he was known as Lupe Fiasco.

  5. Facts about him • One of his hit songs, “The instrumental,” is on the soundtrack of Madden 2007. • “Kick Push” is considered his biggest hit, and was featured on the soundtrack of NBA live ‘07. • He started a radio station called FNF Radio, and it gets up to 6,000 listeners per night. • Jay-Z worked with him and had a great impact on his career. • Lupe is culturally well-rounded: his father is an African drummer,engineer and karate teacher and his mother is a gourmet chef. • He is 1 out of 9 siblings. • He writes his songs about politics on how it’s not orientated right, Muslims, his parents and about how his perspective of society is so difficult to handle with everyone being bullied & even himself in the past.

  6. Quotes • You know how rappers always have names like MC Terrorist—like they’re ‘terrorizing’ other rappers? I knew fiasco meant a great disaster or something like that, but I didn’t realize that the person named Fiasco would be the disaster, and that you should be calling other MCs fiascos — not yourself. I was moving real fast at the time, and it kind of humbled me in a sense. It taught me like, ‘Yo, stop rushing, or you’re going to have some fiascos.’ So I just kept it. It’s like a scar, I guess, a reminder to not over think or overrun anything ever again. – Lupe Fiasco • On the doorknob outside of our apartment, there was blood from some guy who got shot. But inside there were National Geographic magazines, encyclopedias, and a little library bookshelf situation. And we don’t have cable, so we didn’t have the luxury of having our brains washed by MTV. We watched public television — cooking shows, stuff like that. – Lupe Fiasco

  7. Works Cited • http://chicagohiphopconnects.com/2011/06/fun-facts-lupe-fiasco/

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