Last night in New York City, Lupe Fiasco performed at his first annual “Outstanding Fan Awards” sponsored by the Samsung Galaxy S3. Before performing for some of his biggest fans, he gave them awards ranging from “Best Food” to “Outstanding Cover” which included a platinum plaque and a gift bag from Samsung. After handing out […]
Lupe Fiasco’s highly anticipated album, Food & Liquor 2: The Great American Rap Album Part 1, is two weeks away from hitting stores. With some of the footage from this taken from Lupe Fiasco’s Rap Genius break down of “B***h Bad,” the Chicago rapper says that his album is a “challenge in psychological warfare,” and “to challenge your […]
Hip-Hop has had a dark cloud over it for the last 20 or so years: its use of the word “b-tch” in reference to women. Whenever anyone wants to lob criticism at Hip-Hop, its degradation of women always comes first. The word is the safety net for people that want to disregard any good the […]
Lupe Fiasco deconstructs the power of the word “b***h” in the new video for his latest single, “B***h Bad.” Splitting the video into three acts and verses, Wasulu talks most importantly about the power that the word has over youth and especially young women. Lupe trades in his rebel gear for a sharp suit in […]
As part of 2-Cent‘s lecture series at Xavier University, the always candid Lupe Fiasco sits down with legendary New Orleans producer, Mannie Fresh and talked about plenty of subjects in front of a capacity crowd of students. The dreadlocked MC talked to the conductor of the original Cash Money sound about industry politics that he had to […]
