As if waiting an extra month for the rappers highly anticipated second album wasn’t enough, fans of the MC aren’t going to be happy with his future plans.
It seems like the industry has taken its toll on Lupe, who recently told Bill Board that he’s done with making mixtapes and might exit the Hip Hop game altogether.
“I’m just wearing down,” he admits. “I’m never doing mixtapes again, not even Internet ones. My whole energy for making hip-hop music is slowing down. I’ve been doing it for seven years. I still don’t think I’m famous.
I’ll do what I have to do to promote my next album, but I’m not enthused about doing seven albums. I’ll do my three, and then I am going to keep moving to the next phase of life and maybe grow trees.”
COMMENTS
Pam from Martin Has a FAT ASS!!!!...lolol
Lupe 1 of the best mc's in tha game damn
ooo.... k? n how does it have 2 do wit dis?
hip hop gonna loose sumthin good....................
square biz
I hear that -- food and liquor is one of the nest LPs i bought in a while -- and "Real" is one of the flyest songs i've heard all year
sad lupe got that talent man he actually cares about music. Im lisisting i hear u man and I go get the cool as well so dont worry homie. Support HIP-HOP
Has anyone ever really quit..stop talking about it unless ur really going to do it.
Talentwise, he blows away 95% of rappers. Hes a lyrical mastermind and stays true in his beliefs. And its pathetic that more people not very knowledgable in hiphop are more familiar with the "shop boyz" or "unk" and their garbage music. His songs are all radio friendly because of the fact he doesnt curse excessively. I dont get why he never blew up.....if he had had the right marketing and the right people backing him i guarantee he would have been in the discussion of greatest rapper alive.......damn the rap game is gonna miss homie
co-sign homie..DAMN thats fucked up!
its because people are busy listening to boosie and webbie saying wipe me down
mane.............i had ta hip my lil brother to who big l was........we live inna day where niggas think lil wayne is better then biggie...........so like dude said somewhere on here lupe jus need ta man up.........but fuck i hope he aint quit
rongata c'mon ni nigga wats the problem wit u and the trill fam dem niggas make good albums but u wanna hate cuz niggaz so real that they ain't gotta be muggin and tryna be hard on every song, that's what hip hop started wit remember dem pioneers of hip hop started havin fun to remember dem niggaz was on dat break dance shit, but ni it's bad to have fun.
^^^havin fun but they kicked lyrics wit it too to make it funky, so u can listen to it in da club and Home..I don care what u do if ur kickin creative lyrics den ur worth listenin to
CO-SIGN!!! DAT NIGGA LUPE IS SO SICK, i WOULD HATE TO SEE EM LEAVE DA GAME... IF NIGGAS STOP BUMPING SOULJA BOY, SHOP BOYS AND 20 OTHER WACK ASS RAPPERS WHO'S NAME I COULD CARE LESS TO MENTION, AND LISTEN TO REAL TALENT DA GAME WOULD'NT B SO FUCKED UP
damn lupe
hip hop is wack
His spot could have been someone's who actually has HIPHOP as their first love.....honestly if you love the game and love mc'ing than you wouldnt leave...and it seems like he done this for fame now that he said that....
"honestly if you love the game and love mc'ing than you wouldnt leave...and it seems like he done this for fame now that he said that...."
cosign homie...I know Lupe is a lyricist but I didnt like how he said he feels he aint famous cos true lovers of hiphop won't even care about the fame shit!
YOU'D CARE IF NIGGAS IS GETTING FAMOUS AND U KNEW U WROTE SOME SHIT IN 4TH GRADE THAT WAS BETTER DEN ANYTHING THEY EVER WROTE, DAT SHIT CAN BECOME DISCOURAGING
danm lupe dont quit whats next eminem is going to retire? soon the rap game will be full with non rappers like soulja boy(no disrespest 2 soulja boy cuz he makes some nice club bangas)and mims
at least hes going to go do something else productive with his life after "I’ll do my three, and then I am going to keep moving to the next phase of life and maybe grow trees."..lol
smh hip hop is truly dead
NO OFFENCE BUT LUPE HAS TO STOP BITCHIN. HE ISN'T THE NICEST OUT BY A LONG SHOT SO COMPLAINING ABOUT NOT BEING FAMOUS IS JUST SOMETHING OF A PERSONAL PROBLEM. SECONDLY HE IS KIND OF HARD TO FOLLOW ON SOME TRACKS EVEN THOUGH SOME FELLOW DEFSOUNDER'S DID POINT ME INTO THE DIRECTION OF SOME OF HIS BETTER SHIT. I HOPE HE DOESN'T QUIT OR NUTHIN BUT HE HAS TO MAN UP. IT'S THE GAME. LOOK AT HIS FELLOW CHICAGO-IAN COMMON
i couldnt have said it better, and lupe couldnt ever do anything like Finding Forever
DID U HEAR FOOD AND LIQUOR?, THE INSTRUMENTAL, HE SAY SHE SAY, HE JUST MIGHT BE OKAY,THE COOL, AMERICAN TERRORISTS?.. LUPE IS EASILY TOP 5 LYRICISTS, NOT SAYING COMMON IS'NT BUT LUPE STANDING NEXT TO THE TOP SPOT IN LYRICS IF HE NOT SITTING IN THE CHAIR
Wat da fuk are yall snap muzik lovers talkin about how da fuk is lupe not all that nice he a fukin beast listen to a fukin mixtape do some research listen to lupe the killer and penz and needles. he a better lyracist than wayne. maybe its the lack in cocain talk that got u niggas lost
man rage against the machine quit and i stopped listing to rock music. if lupe quits, i dont know what ill do. he is one of the few real MC's left. i might have to start listening to country or some shit. cause i refuse to listen to all this down south bullshit they flooding the market with.
go listen to IT or Celph titled underground will always be around
MAN,...LUPE IS THE SHIT.
ONE OF THE BIGGEST SLEPT ON ARTIST I'VE EVER HEARD. HIS METAPHORS ARE WAY TO ADVANCE FOR YOUR AVERAGE LISTENER. I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE SECOND ALBUM BECAUSE THE FIRST WAS DOPE BUT THE LEAKED VERSION OF "FOOD & LIQUOR" WAS A CLASSIC...TRUST ME. I HOPE HE CHANGES HIS MIND AND STAYS TRUE TO HIP HOP, BUT IF HE DIPS OUT THEN I CAN'T BLAME HIM. IN THIS WORLD OF D4L, CHINGY, JIM JONES (HOW THE FUCK IS HE A HOT RAPPER....SOMEBODY TELL ME!!!), BOW WOW, AND THE REST OF THOSE WANNABE RAP DICKS.
BY THE WAY I MISSED OUT ALOT OF SHIT RAPPERS BUT MOST PEOPLE KNOW THAT IF HIP HOP AIN'T DEAD THEN THIS WATERED DOWN POPPIN LOCKIN FAKE GANGSTA SHIT IS SLOWLY KILLING IT......DAMN......REMEMBER WHEN PEOPLE IN HIP HOP HAD DIFFERENT STYLES....MAN I MISS THEM DAYS.....OH YEAH...WHAT UP JOKESTA!!!
I hate when people whine about how today's shit aint "true hip hop"....
So now I just say, fuck it, I don't listen to "hip hop", I listen to rap.
den u'd sound stupid...Rapping/Emceeing is a component of the culture HIP HOP...so is graffittin so is DJing so his break dancing..GET IT!..It's a sad day wen we dont even know what is what
i feel u but in 10-20 years from now hiphop will have sub genres: Rap/Crunk/Snap/hip pop dont belive me wait until the future.... u may think hip hop is dying but i think its just getting started!!! SO SIT BACK WATCH IT EVOLVE!
THATS A HORRIBLE LOST FOR MY CITY..HE GET SO MUCH LOVE OUT HERE I JUST HOPE SOMEONE COULD TALK HIM OUT OF IT..HE NEEDS TO JUST LIVE IT UP AND THE RHYMES AND LOVE WOULD COME RIGHT BACK AND DA REASON WHY JIM JONES WAS NUMBER 10 ON MTV HOTTEST M.C. LIST (RIGHT NOW)WAS BECAUSE FAM DID ABOUT 10 REMIXES..WHATS FUCKIN WITH THAT IN 07' ON THE REMIX TIP OF THINGS
BlackWall you my nigga
How can the people give Chamillonaire "rookie of the year" with lupe in the category? Lupe Fiasco- MOST UNDERRATED RAPPER EVER...and if Lupe's done AND Game's done after his next album
i think Hip Hop might be dead
Lupe's one of the dude that i thought was the future of the game,lyrically he spits fire.....he should do another album,i think it'd go platinum.
And he's tripping when he says he still don;t think he's famous,cos i gurantee a few million hip hop fans know who he is.........
yeah cuz if we dont have lupe and game there sure isn't any albums left to look for..?????
LOX, Dr. DRE, EMINEMEM, NAS, HOVA, TALIB, MOS DEF, SHYNE, OUTKAST.....
WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT
look i know there's alot of bubble gum shit out there( i'm not hationg on anyone get yo money)
lupe and the game are definetley big in the game... but hip will NOT stop because of the loss of those two their music will still be around to inspire....we got to stop with this hip hop is dead shit....
you can speak certain things into exsitence
mos def and talib are the only niggas on that list that make albums on the regular. and dre aint ever going to drop his album. i gave up on that idea 2 or 3 years ago.
He needs to get signed to a good label he would fit in perfectly at ROCAFELLA i always wanted him to get signed there. Lupe a real MC wit real talent hate to see him go.
Fuck Lupe!!! Dat nigga is quitin on me and erybody dat loves wat he do.... U gotta be hungry son it aint about just talent no more
Weezy and Kanye gotta hold shit down now!!! o yea Andre 3000 a beast too!
Carter 3 commin out a week b4 Christmas bitch!!!
Wat? Weezy gotta hold it down? when reel mcs die weezy sells 3 more albums. truly sad day 4 hip-hop
^ he waying weezy and kanye gotta hold it down. cause they dedicated... they in for the long haul.
He Just Aint Got The Ambition...Some People Dont No What To Do And He One Of Him. Just Rappin Aint The Industry Unless U Makin That Wack Ass Snap/Dance Music
Exactly. He sound like Jin with this shit. So hiphop is dead because one artist didn't blow like he wanted? You can tell by the article he was hoping to blow up and be a Kanye or even a Common. He's not seeing the recognition or the paper so now he wants to quit. If he was "Real hiphop" as some people claim to be, he'd be doing it for the love of it.
He signed a 7 album deal???? wow. thats not even funny. 7 ALBUMS!!!! god damn. i thought for sure the way the industry's going now, that those big labels would only be signing 1 or 2 album deals. Why the hell would he pull a Nas, and sign his career away like that. He's nice, but he wouldn't really be missed like Jay-z, Nas,Common or Talib.
Sad news non the less.
LUPE IS FUCKIN SICK WIT HIS SHIT.
BUT DONT RETIRE ON US
Yea nobody spittin like Weezy man....but dont hate on my opinion cause dats just an opinion......listen to what he says and how he says it and give credit where credit is due,
Lupe dont be a bitch....... hiphop needs creativity
reel talk i feel 4 Lupe. But it sorta of his own fault he didnt sell albums. he loved hip-hop 2 much. He kept feedin us mixtape afta mixtape 1 song off his album here 1 song der next thing u knew his album was all ova da internet. then u got ppl dat dont like havin 2 hear a song twice 2 get da meanin of a song so dey didnt give Lupe his props. I understand where Lupe comin from when u 1 of da best n da game + no 1 tells u. dat shit will make u mad. Peace Lupe u was 2 fly 4 90% of listners
Lupe's nicer then common, without question. Common is nice don't get me wrong but he has kanye producing 90% of his work and will.i.am or J dilla doing the rest. Lupe meanwhile is getting like 1 track from pharell or ye here or there, Lupe I don't blame ya
THATS THE DUMBEST SHIT IVE HEARD IN A MINUTE. LUPE'S NICER THAN COMMON? YOU SAY SHIT JUST TO SPITE ME BITCH BOY
He OK Sometime I Feel Like HE Be Tryin Too Hard To Make Up Somthin Creative
Lupe is genius. I hate this news. That said, I do kinda see where he's coming from. It's gotta be so damn frustrating seeing the type off garbage that gets played and makes money these days. Hurricane Chris... DJ Unk...
yeah he is real hip hop to me he sounds like nas and kanye west put together... but i do admit for some reason i never thought about buying his cd until recently and it is good it was just never really promoted i dont think he ever had a radio single or anythin
fuck nigga is my favorite rapper mane fa real
south dallas rep. mane
U see YA'LL like cop'in the wack two step snap,crackle, pop, super thug shit to much. now hip hop is go'in to lost a REAL MICROPHONE CONTROLER. I got lupes' ablum the shit was fire real deep shit SUPPORT REAL HIP HOP. don't limit your culture to just hit'em up and lets dance that aint really real.
NIGGAS SHOULD PUT THERE AGE UP ON THIS SHIT SO WE CAN WORK OUT WHEN THEY FIRST WAS ON THIS HIP HOP. ANY FOOL THAT TELLS ME THAT HIP HOP IS THE SAME OR BETTER THAN THE 80'S OR 90'S SHOULD GET THE FUCK OFF THIS SITE AND BUY THAT PUSSYCAT DOLLS CD THAT WE KNOW YOU WANT.....DUMB SMART NIGGAS!!!!
lmao...
LUPE IS LIKE THE SMARTEST RAPPER MAN.........FOREAL GOING ON MIXTAPES DRYS UR FLOW OUT FOR EXAMPLE JUST LIKE LLOYD BANKS ALL HIS GREATEST RHYMES ARE FROM MIXTAPES IF HE WAS SMART AND WAIT FOR HIS ALBUM HE WOULD STILL BE THE BEST ....BUT MIXTAPE IS GOOD CUZ U GET STREET CRED FROM IT AND ETC
Without having to explain the whole lupe is a beast thing over...cause we all know... i think the reason he didn't sell or w/e he wanted cause he was trying to stay too close to hip hop...i don't mean his songs....there great everytime...but i mean business wise...he needed to go on more radio stations....do more show appearences...everyone that listened to his album knows it fire...but not enough ppl listened to it because business wise he didn't promote well n thats why he's not mainstream famous....but i respect him n if he works hard business wise on this album he will get way more recognition...n to WayBackWhen i hope u don't think thats what MC stands for...Master of Ceremonies...
ACEDEUCE213 IS SPOT ON....LISTEN TO THAT BROTHERS POST ABOVE ME....
lupe and chamillionaire should do a track together.
grow trees?????
Lupe Is MAd Lyrical!!! maybe if this albumn sells good, which leads to a couple features, he might regain that fiya, he needs to get signed wit GOOD Music!!!...
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The SOUTH Making Niggas QUIT HAHAHAHAHAHA Damn Lupe
geez16 — 3 days ago
i mean its aight. i see what he was tryna do. sounds like he was tryna do a LOST ONES sort style but its not catchy enough. i dunno the bitches could like it tho
N.O. Cartel — 3 days ago
LOL ^^^^^
"The BITCHES COULD LIKE IT"? But you like it too, you said "It's Aight"!!!!
A DAY LATER ON AONTHER THREAD
N.O. Cartel — 2 days ago
50s version of "LOST ONES" smh at this dude.....Then swagga jacked Cassidy. wow
u just pissed on any respect i had for the no. i always thought u were wack but this proves it to me fuckboy
and u say im on your dick???? faggot ass bitch
jackin swag typical nigga from da no
Ha!! That was a knee-slapper N.O. Cartel!!!! Most, if not all of the south would be buried alive w/ Lupes lyrics. He's too clever w/ his rhymes. It takes about 3 or 4 listens for people to actually get it
That man keeps gettin over looked in da game he puts out the truth and people want white girl all that bullshit was being recognized. and he gave truth and got passed up for crack rap. thats why he was like negativity is his new thing cuz negativity seems to sell and get recognition. fukin poison.
Hip Hop is fukin dyin er thang sound the fukin same er body sells crack. nobody is creative any more. and creativity aint gettin recognized thats how bad it is. people are listening to crack sellin bullshit and just disregaurd real shit and lupe is hot so i dont fukin get it hip hop realy is dyin thats why i just stay listenin to pac cuz im sick off the same shit ova and ova.
not lupe!
why not boosie?
LMAOOOOO HELL YEH THEY NEED TO HAVE A RAPPER LAY-OFF, bOOSIE AND DAT NIGGA KIA SHINE(i REALLY DISLIKE DAT NIGGA) HOW IS KRISPY CONSIDERED HOTT? O YEH AND DAT NIGGA WHO MADE CUPID SHUFFLE R WHATEVA DA FUCK DAT IS NEEDS TO GET ASSANAITED FOR HIP HOP TREASON!!!!!!!
FUCK THAT NIGGA!!!
yo the guys gotta hustle n i respect da emceee hes one of da most hype round but he needa stop bein a bitch if he like makin music fo himself then he gon keep it up,if is jus a hustle then he ain real to begin wit n straight upppp why not boosie hahaha
LMAO!!!...Whoever said why not Boosie(I heard he was the new Flava Flav) Lupe is a monster and his style is complex to a fault. His lyrics are above the heads of the average 106 and Park or radio listeners. lol...His songs don't come with instructions and dances. He is by far the best rapper to come out in years..Joell Ortiz is up there too....(No I'm not hating on the south stop being so damn emotional) I live in Atlanta.
lupes style,,,i meen the way he putting words together iz simple as fuck,,,thesame as kaneys and jays,,,thats why i don't understand why u people like them so much,, yeah maybe his lyrics is perfect but they style IZ boring,,it's just my opinion,so don't start shitting on me,coz anyway u can't tell me nothin'!!!:$
"IM STILL THROWING MY ZONE UP, DOING IT BOUT AS FLY AS A MAGGOT GROWN UP" AND DATS A LIGHT FREESTYLE BAR AND ITS BETTER DEN ALOT OF SHIT UR PRECIOUS WEEZY EVER SPIT, "IM ON LIKE THE TELEVISION"... REAL DEEP
^^^^^^^^^^i feel wat u sayin man i dnt understand why dickryding 4 him is goin on,i mean we have much better mc's who have been in the game 4 a while and never got 2 where they wna b in this game.you dont see them giving up do u ,in the hip hop game u have to pay yr dues and i am sorry but he hasnt!he is nice and all that but they are way better mc's.
Man if you call hip hop your first love then how you sick of it i know he should make a song about it like neyo fuck planting them tree dawg you better smoke what this fool gone do stop raping to sell drugs come own dawg you just talkin cause if every artist was to do the same the game will only have a hand fall of artist well it all ready is oh yeah to da kidd am on like television may mean he's hot, current and or he's never off
Here we go again. This article is about Lupe wanting to quit. How in the hell is the south brought into this with all these comments.
If Lupe wanna quit, then quit! I don't remember him being on any major tours in majors cities, especially down here in the south cause that "kick push" shit was hot so I would've seen dude, but if you not promoting and touring and just being out right hungry for it then leave.
Ain't no point in making music if you not giving it 100% when you go in the booth!
damn it sucks to hear lupe may leave hip-hop becuz he is one of the artists who actually have lyrics worth listening to...
Ey, that is old news, he annonced to a danish magazine he was gonna do 3 albums and then leave the rap game, but damn, lupe is one good MC, hip hop is gonna loose something god
DAMN CATS BE HATIN LYRACIST. GET OFF THAT BANGEM UP SHIT. I DONT BLAME LUPE THO.