Lupe Fiasco
Considers Quitting Rap
After Beef With Chief Keef:
‘My Heart Is Broken’
When the mean streets of Chicago, spills over on to Twitter…Yesterday, Lupe Fiasco announced via his Twitter page that he may be done with rap after a small spat with fellow hometown rapper Chief Keef. You see, there were more than 152 killings in Chicago between June and the end of August alone this year with 38 of them being teenagers, and unfortunately up and comer Chief Keef (who’s only 17) glorifies that ‘Bang Bang’ lifestyle. If you follow, Chief Keef on Twitter, he tweets with the hashtag “300,” which is a reference to the Chicago Street gang, the Black Disciples. Police started monitoring Chief’s account earlier this week after another 16 year old rapper (by the name of Lil Jojo) was killed in Chicago who had a known beef with the street gang. And to make matters a little worse, Chief Keef sent out an unsympathetic tweet after the rapper was shot to death that read,”‘Its Sad Cuz Dat Ni–a Jojo Wanted To Be Jus Like Us #LMAO.” [As in 'Laughing My Ass Off'.]
But it didn’t stop there. A day after Lil Jojo’s murder, Chief Keef also sent a threat to Lupe Fiasco via Twitter:
“Lupe fiasco a hoe azz ni–a And wen I see him I’ma smack him like da lil b-tch he is #300″.
Chief Keef was more than likely responding to a comment that Lupe made last week during an interview with Baltimore’s 92Q. When Lupe was asked for his opinion on Chief Keef, he responded, “Chief Keef scares me. Not him specifically, but just the culture that he represents–specifically in Chicago…. The hoodlums, the gangsters, and the ones you see killing each other and the murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing and you see who’s doing it and perpetrating it — they all look like Chief Keef.”
Lupe responded to Chief Keef’s threatening tweet by stating he wasn’t interested in indulging in beefs. And although he’s remained positive on records, he hasn’t received anything but malice in return. So he is considering leaving the rap game.
“i love u lil bruh @ChiefKeef…i really really do from the bottom of my f-cking heart. I know that street sh-t like the back of my hand. I’ ve seen it in every way you can possibly imagine and its nothing to be proud of @ChiefKeef it TAKES and TAKES till there is nothing left. I choose not to indulge becuz its lil guys that look up to me so i try and show them a better way @ChiefKeef i aint try to be BE better. I’m trying to DO better @ChiefKeef as we all should. We were born with no expectations to make it. born in the hood, live there die there. I cant go 4 that @ChiefKeef & i cant let the people i love, including you my n-gga, go 4 that either. We kings not f-cking savages and goons”
“My father I have spoken the truth to them yet it has only made my life in this world more troubled. i can bear this no longer… I have spoken peace only 2 receive vitriol and malice in return. My brother seeks destruction my sister seeks attention paths to nothingness. I’d die for them…but they’d probably spit on my grave…i still will die for them…just bury me in a place far from their reach…Amin.
This album will probably be my last. It’s been a pleasure to have all my fans provide so much love an inspiration for me and my family, but my heart is broken and I see no comfort further along this path–only more pain. I cannot participate any longer in this…My first true love was literature so i will return to that…lupe fiasco ends here…peace and much love 2 ya!….”
To gain a little perspective on Lupe Fiasco’s stance (which seems a little bit deeper than a tweet threat), just last month during a filming of MTV’s Rap Fix, Sway played an old clip of Lupe showing him around his old neighborhood on the Westside Chicago. When the clip was finished, Lupe broke down crying and it was very hard for him to finish the interview as he talked about the ghosts of old friends and his reality back in Chicago.
Some of them dudes are dead. Chicago is the murder capitol. The dudes in that video are in prison, a couple of fed cases, and then there’s ghosts. You see people that ain’t there. You just trying to make it better and come up out of it. Nothings changed. Some of them kids aren’t gonna make it out of there. You just feel so helpless. That was six years ago and stuff is the same. You feel hopeless. It’s a terrible thing.
To see myself six years ago surrounding by people who aren’t even here, repping the hood, it’s a sober thing to me. It’s sobering because you know your mother was right. Your father was right. Stick to what you know and get out because if you stay here, you are going to die. You are not going to die for anything heroic or meaningful, you are going to die for something worthless and no one will remember your name. And it hurts. It’s a painful thing.
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This is all so very sad.
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Lupe Fiasco unveils
“American Terrorist Pt 2″,
says F&L2 LP
“will probably be my last”
Lupe fiasco a hoe ass nigga And wen I see him I'ma smack him like da lil bitch he is #300
I cant go 4 that @ChiefKeef & i cant let the people i love, including you my nigga, go 4 that either. We kings not fucking savages and goons
Following Lupe Fiasco‘s comments regarding the much-hyped (zero talent having) teenage rapper Chief Keefa little while ago, the Chicago hailing youngster took to twitter to threaten to smack Lupe like a bitch (see tweets above). After diplomatically responding to Chief Keef, Fiasco took to his twitter to get a few things of his chest,
“my father i have spoken the truth to them yet it has only made my life in this world more troubled. i can bear this no longer.
i have spoken peace only 2 receive vitriol and malice in return. My brother seeks destruction my sister seeks attention paths to nothingness.
i’d die for them…but they’d probably spit on my grave…i still will die for them…just bury me in a place far from their reach…Amin
This album will probably be my last…its been a pleasure to have all my fans provide so much love an inspiration for me and my family. but my heart is broken and i see no comfort further along this path only more pain. I cannot participate any longer in this…My first true love was literature so i will return to that…lupe fiasco ends here.”
But before leaving twitter for the night, Wasulu delivered a gift to his loyal supporters at LupEND Blog in the form of an unfinished version of the much anticipated “American Terrorist Pt 2″, the almost mythical 2nd part of the American Terrorist trilogy that began on Lupe’s debut album Food & Liquor (“American Terrorist III” appeared last year). Press play below.
“It’s getting hard to seperate the saints from the satanic.” – Lupe Fiasco
If Lupe does in fact follow through with ‘retirement’, what will mean for the albums that were set to follow Food & Liquor 2: The Great American Rap Album, Part 1, Food & Liquor 2: The Great American Rap Album, Part 2 andSkulls? Would Atlantic Records go ahead and release them without his direct involvement? Stay locked for developments.
Food & Liquor 2: The Great American Rap Album, Part 1 is out on September 25th, let’s pray it’s not really his last.
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Lupe Fiasco
Threatens to Quit Rap
After Chicago Rapper
is Slain
Tuesday night saw more bloodshed in Chicago as the city clocked two more murders making 2012 one of the deadliest in the city’s recent history. This time one of the victims was an up-and-coming rapper, and his murder may have deep consequences for the music world.
Eighteen-year-old rapper Joseph Coleman, known as Lil’ JoJo, was shot while he rode a bicycle Tuesday night; the teen later died on the street. As his mother dealt with the loss of her son, Coleman’s rap rival, Chief Keef, seemed to make light of his competitor’s demise.
A message posted to Chief Keef’s Twitter account read, “Its Sad Cuz Dat N***a Jojo Wanted To Be Jus Like Us #LMAO.”
According to reports, the two rappers have been engaged in a verbal war for months and police are looking into Keef’s tweets, as well as local gangs both rappers claimed to be affiliated with, to help crack the case.
Billboard details the rappers’ beef:
In April, JoJo released ”3hunna K,” a track that he rapped “ain’t a diss song, this is just a message” but found him riding Chief Keef’s “Everyday” beat while guns appeared in the accompanying video.
The track was a response to Chief Keef affiliate Lil Durk’s earlier rhymes about JoJo’s Bricksquad crew, which JoJo followed up with an additional track on the subject. A shaky YouTube video uploaded on Tuesday pictures JoJo allegedly driving by Lil Reese — another member of the Keef/Durk crew — and engaging in a profanity-laced verbal argument. “I’ma kill you,” the person claimed to be Reese clearly states in the video. According to the Tribune, police were investigating “whether the shooting was sparked by a gang conflict.” (Read Complex Magazine’s timeline detailing the tweets before and after JoJo was killed.)
JoJo was killed shortly after the video hit the web.
Chief Keef, known for his rhymes glorifying guns and violence, later claimed his account had been hacked after many of his 200,000+ followers took him to task for his seeming insensitivity. But the tweet poking fun at JoJo’s death was never erased; it still remains on the rapper’s timeline.
After Keef posted the callous message, Chicago rapper Lupe Fiasco told followers that he was heartbroken over yet another senseless murder in his city.
In an interview with Baltimore’s 92Q last week, Fiasco said Chief Keef, and the culture of violence he represents, scares him.
“Chief Keef scares me. Not him specifically, but just the culture that he represents, specifically in Chicago….The murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing and you see who’s doing it and perpetrating it, they all look like Chief Keef.”
Amid the controversy surrounding JoJo’s death, Chief Keef sent threatening tweets to Lupe, saying he would “smack him like da lil b*tch he is.” Keef and Fiasco exchanged a series of tweets that culminated in Lupe saying he had lost faith in music and may return to his first love, literature.
Losing Lupe Fiasco’s voice would be a serious blow to hip-hop. These days it seems like gang and gun culture is taking over Chicago (and rap as a whole), despite other rappers like Lupe Fiasco, Common, and Rhymefest offering an alternative perspective.
Many have called out Chief Keef for his violent lyrics and rampant gang references in light of his city’s deplorable murder rate, but the upstart rapper continues to win over fans. Keef earned major kudos when fellow Chicago-bred rapper Kanye West jumped on a remix of Keef’s viral hit, “I Don’t Like,” and the 17-year-old just inked a deal with Interscope reportedly worth millions.
Despite the criticisms many have lobbed at Chief Keef, his buzz, unfortunately, continues to grow.
Chicago rapper Rhymefest, who ran unsuccessfully to be an Alderman in the city’s 10th district, summed up the seemingly lack of concern around the violence in Keef’s music and Chicago’s exploding murder rate.
“I warned you all about this Chicago violence in Hip Hop and I was called a Hater,”Rhymefest tweeted, “now someone else is dead.”