History Trivia / LupeFiasco

** Three albums were planned for 2017 known as ''DROGAS'', ''DROGAS Light'', and ''Skulls''. After the backlash regarding the single "N.E.R.D.", Lupe cancelled the three albums and ''even announced he was '''going to retire''''' due to the backlash being [[InsaneTrollLogic "a message from God"]]. He later on {{Uncancelled}} ''DROGAS Light'', and even later than that announced ''DROGAS'' under the new name ''DROGAS Wave'', but it's unknown if he's going to release ''Skulls'' next and if he really is going to retire.
** ''Testuo & Youth'' originated as ''Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 2'', a follow-up to ''Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1'' before it was reworked as a separate album.

** Three albums were planned for 2017 known as ''DROGAS'', ''DROGAS Light'', and ''Skulls''. After the InternetBackdraft regarding the single "N.E.R.D.", Lupe cancelled the three albums and ''even announced he was '''going to retire''''' due to the backlash being [[InsaneTrollLogic "a message from God"]]. He later on {{Uncancelled}} ''DROGAS Light'', and even later than that announced ''DROGAS'' under the new name ''DROGAS Wave'', but it's unknown if he's going to release ''Skulls'' next and if he really is going to retire.

** Three albums were planned for 2017 known as ''DROGAS'', ''DROGAS Light'', and ''Skull''. After the InternetBackdraft regarding the single "N.E.R.D.", Lupe cancelled the three albums and ''even announced he was '''going to retire''''' due to the backlash being [[InsaneTrollLogic "a message from God"]]. He later on {{Uncancelled}} ''DROGAS Light'', and even later than that announced ''DROGAS'' under the new name ''DROGAS Wave'', but it's unknown if he's going to release ''Skulls'' next and if he really is going to retire.

* OneOfUs: "Lupe steals like Franchise/LupinIII"? Yeah.
** From the same song "I'm trying to stop lying/Lion like I'm [[WesternAnimation/{{ThunderCats|1985}} Mum-Ra]]"
** "I love my city, really hope that God bless it/Got my mind moving faster than that [[Franchise/SonictheHedgehog hog in the hedges.]]
** "With the habit of a hobbit makes it kinda hard to drop it"
** "I like Franchise/StreetFighter too, I just really hate Zangief, only Ken and Ryu, I find it hard to beat Blanka..."
*** Lupe is an avid fighting game fan, who occasionally tells his followers on twitter about his tenure in Street Fighter (mostly [[VideoGame/StreetFighterIII Street Fighter III 3rd Strike]], so much so that an exhibition match against Japan's very own [[UsefulNotes/FGCAces Daigo Umehara]] at [[UsefulNotes/FightingGameCommunity EVO 2016]] [[https://twitter.com/MarkMan23/status/692400356853190657 has been teased]], [[https://twitter.com/LupeFiasco/status/692414818486226944 and he seems to be down with it and willing to play!]] [[http://www.polygon.com/2016/2/16/11014866/rapper-lupe-fiasco-beat-the-worlds-best-street-fighter-pro He eventually did take on Daigo, and won.]]
** His part in Fort Minor's "Spray Paint and Ink Pens". While [[Music/WuTangClan Ghostface]] raps about street life, and [[Music/LinkinPark Mike Shinoda's]] verse is about a man committing suicide over the death of his wife, Lupe's is an epic sci-fi space drama about "the final saga in the Seven Planet Wars" that almost feels like an ode to the various Franchise/{{Gundam}} animes.
** His verse in Music/KanyeWest's "Don't Look Down" is all about the departure of Phoenix/Jean Grey from the ComicBook/XMen.
** He also loves ''Literature/HarryPotter''.
** [[http://streetknowledge.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/lupe-darth-vader.jpg Lupe as]] [[StarWars Darth Vader]].
** He's a fan of [[Franchise/MetalGear Metal Gear Solid]]. His song "In" from Pharaoh Heights samples "Elegia" by Music/NewOrder, which was previously the E3 2015 trailer for [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain Metal Gear Solid V]]'s music, and the same song mentions Outer Heaven.

** Three albums were planned for 2017 known as ''DROGAS'', ''DROGAS Light'', and ''Skull''. After the InternetBackdraft regarding the single "N.E.R.D.", Lupe cancelled the three albums and ''even announced he was'' '''''going to retire'''''' due to the backlash being [[InsaneTrollLogic "a message from God"]]. He later on {{Uncancelled}} ''DROGAS Light'', but it's unknown if he's going to release the other two albums and if he really is going to retire.

** From the same song "I'm trying to stop lying/Lion like I'm [[{{Thundercats}} Mum-Ra]]"
** "I love my city, really hope that God bless it/Got my mind moving faster than that [[SonictheHedgehog hog in the hedges.]]

** "I like StreetFighter too, I just really hate Zangief, only Ken and Ryu, I find it hard to beat Blanka..."
*** Lupe is an avid fighting game fan, who ocassionally tells his followers on twitter about his tenure in Street Fighter (mostly [[VideoGame/StreetFighterIII Street Fighter III 3rd Strike]], so much so that an exhibition match against Japan's very own [[FGCAces Daigo Umehara]] at [[UsefulNotes/FightingGameCommunity EVO 2016]] [[https://twitter.com/MarkMan23/status/692400356853190657 has been teased]], [[https://twitter.com/LupeFiasco/status/692414818486226944 and he seems to be down with it and willing to play!]] [[http://www.polygon.com/2016/2/16/11014866/rapper-lupe-fiasco-beat-the-worlds-best-street-fighter-pro He eventually did take on Daigo, and won.]]

** He also loves HarryPotter.

*** Lupe is an avid fighting game fan, who ocassionally tells his followers on twitter about his tenure in Street Fighter (mostly [[StreetFighterIII Street Fighter III 3rd Strike]], so much so that an exhibition match against Japan's very own [[FGCAces Daigo Umehara]] at [[UsefulNotes/FightingGameCommunity EVO 2016]] [[https://twitter.com/MarkMan23/status/692400356853190657 has been teased]], [[https://twitter.com/LupeFiasco/status/692414818486226944 and he seems to be down with it and willing to play!]] [[http://www.polygon.com/2016/2/16/11014866/rapper-lupe-fiasco-beat-the-worlds-best-street-fighter-pro He eventually did take on Daigo, and won.]]

** His verse in Music/KanyeWest's "Don't Look Down" is all about the departure of Phoenix/Jean Grey from the ComicBook/{{X-Men}}.

** He's a fan of [[Franchise/MetalGear Metal Gear Solid]]. His song "In" from Pharaoh Heights samples "Elegia" by [[Music/NewOrder]], which was previously the E3 2015 trailer for [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain Metal Gear Solid V]]'s music, and the same song mentions Outer Heaven.

** He's a fan of [[Franchise/MetalGear]]. His song "In" from Pharaoh Heights samples "Elegia" by [[Music/NewOrder]], which was previously the E3 2015 trailer for [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain]]'s music, and the same song mentions Outer Heaven.

** Three albums were planned for 2017 known as ''DROGAS'', ''DROGAS Light'', and ''Skull''. After the InternetBackdraft regarding the single "N.E.R.D.", Lupe cancelled the three albums and ''even announced he was'' '''''going to retire'''''' due to the backlash being [[InsaneTrollLogic "a message from God"]]. He later on {{Uncancelled}} ''DROGAS Light'', but it's unknown if he's going to release the other two albums and if he really is going to retire.

** "Airplanes" and "Nothin' on You" were originally his songs before Atlantic gave them to B.o.B. No wonder Lupe became suicidal.

** Because of this, he made sure that the first single, particularly its first verse, was a complete TakeThat towards Atlantic Records.

*** Lupe is an avid fighting game fan, who ocassionally tells his followers on twitter about his tenure in Street Fighter (mostly [[StreetFighterIII Street Fighter III 3rd Strike]], so much so that an exhibition match against Japan's very own [[FGCAces Daigo Umehara]] at [[FightingGameCommunity EVO 2016]] [[https://twitter.com/MarkMan23/status/692400356853190657 has been teased]], [[https://twitter.com/LupeFiasco/status/692414818486226944 and he seems to be down with it and willing to play!]] [[http://www.polygon.com/2016/2/16/11014866/rapper-lupe-fiasco-beat-the-worlds-best-street-fighter-pro He eventually did take on Daigo, and won.]]

** His part in Fort Minor's "Spray Paint and Ink Pens". While [[Music/WuTangClan Ghostface]] raps about street life, and [[LinkinPark Mike Shinoda's]] verse is about a man committing suicide over the death of his wife, Lupe's is an epic sci-fi space drama about "the final saga in the Seven Planet Wars" that almost feels like an ode to the various Franchise/{{Gundam}} animes.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: "The Show Goes On" is admittedly a sped-up version of ModestMouse's "Float On" with the lyrics changed.

** As a long time ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' fan, he was invited to battle Daigo...and ''he won''.

* CreatorBacklash: Lupe has mentioned in interviews that while he both loves and hates Lasers (because while he does like the songs, he despises it because of its torturous and troubled development), he has a considerably less complicated relationship with its lead single, The Show Goes On. He has repeatedly referred to it as 'the label's record'.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Originally, Lupe planned to release three albums- ''Food & Liquor'', ''The Cool'', and ''[=LupE.N.D.=]'', then retire. Unfortunately for him, his contract dictates at least six.

* OneOfUs: "Lupe steals like Franchise/LupinIII"? Yeah.

*** Lupe is an avid fighting game fan, who ocassionally tells his followers on twitter about his tenure in Street Fighter (mostly [[StreetFighterIII Street Fighter III 3rd Strike]], so much so that an exhibition match against Japan's very own [[FGCAces Daigo Umehara]] at [[FightingGameCommunity EVO 2016]] [[https://twitter.com/MarkMan23/status/692400356853190657 has been teased]], [[https://twitter.com/LupeFiasco/status/692414818486226944 and he seems to be down with it and willing to play!]] [[http://www.polygon.com/2016/2/16/11014866/rapper-lupe-fiasco-beat-the-worlds-best-street-fighter-pro He eventually did take on Daigo, ''and won''.]]

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: After numerous features on each other's songs, Lupe along with Pharrell from N.E.R.D./The Neptunes and Music/KanyeWest were going to form a {{supergroup}} called Child Rebel Soldiers or C.R.S. Unfortunately all that materialized were two songs and later Lupe announced that group was [[strike:permanently]] on ice...[[http://kanyewest.com/2010/10/dont-stop/ or is it?]]

*** Lupe is an avid fighting game fan, who ocassionally tells his followers on twitter about his tenure in Street Fighter (mostly [[StreetFighterIII Street Fighter III 3rd Strike]], so much so that an exhibition match against Japan's very own [[FGCAces Daigo Umehara]] at [[FightingGameCommunity EVO 2016]] [[https://twitter.com/MarkMan23/status/692400356853190657 has been teased]], [[https://twitter.com/LupeFiasco/status/692414818486226944 and he seems to be down with it and willing to play!]]

* PromotedFanboy: A long time fan of the Chicago Bulls, he was asked by the team to create a new version their [[http://www.nba.com/bulls/entertainment/only-bulls-fall-out-boy-feat.-lupe-fiasco-0 theme song]], which he happily did in collaboration with fellow Chicagoans Music/FallOutBoy. (Patrick Stump also helped produce a few songs for ''The Cool''.)

** His verse in KanyeWest's "Don't Look Down" is all about the departure of Phoenix/Jean Grey from the ComicBook/{{X-Men}}.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: After numerous features on each other's songs, Lupe along with Pharrell from N.E.R.D./The Neptunes and KanyeWest were going to form a {{supergroup}} called Child Rebel Soldiers or C.R.S. Unfortunately all that materialized were two songs and later Lupe announced that group was [[strike:permanently]] on ice...[[http://kanyewest.com/2010/10/dont-stop/ or is it?]]

* PromotedFanboy: A long time fan of the Chicago Bulls, he was asked by the team to create a new version their [[http://www.nba.com/bulls/entertainment/only-bulls-fall-out-boy-feat.-lupe-fiasco-0 theme song]], which he happily did in collaboration with fellow Chicagoans Music/FallOutBoy.