Lupe Fiasco is a fraud
"I push rocks, dawg" --Lupe Fiasco, circa 2003
Revelation of the day: Before Lupe Fiasco was a skateboard-riding, anime-watching, bedazzled sweatshirt-wearing psuedo-intellectual PSA rapper, he was your typical gat-toting drug dealer.
In 2003, he signed to the now-defunct Arista Records and recorded a song called "Pop Pop," which is all about dealing drugs and shooting people. Having listened to it a couple of times now, nothing about it suggests to me that it might be some sort of crack rap parody a la Jeru the Damaja's "The Bullshit."
[Jeru the Damaja > Lupe Fiasco]
Which makes you wonder if this was before or after Lupe "used to hate hip-hop." Since Lu's lyrics on Food and Liquor are obviously so personal, you think he would've referenced his crack-dealing days at one point or another. Could it be that he's trying to hide something?
Stream "Pop Pop" and peep Noz's take on the issue at XXL.
