Interview: Lupe Fiasco

This is an interview I recently did with artist Lupe Fiasco. It was originally posted on Imageyenation.com where I post under the name "Lady Glock." However, I changed the name back to Miss Hipstah especially for Blogcritics.

"I’m not the greatest skateboarder, but I’m a damn good rapper, so I made a damn good skateboarding song."
-Lupe Fiasco

So there I was lying on the floor of my room, waiting for my phone to ring like some sort of lovelorn school girl in desperate need of a date for Friday's dance. I looked at my watch. It was 5:15. As usual, (well, usual according to the various articles I'd read about him) he was late. I was still working on a crossword puzzle when the phone finally rang. The woman on the other line said "Hey, hang on a second," and then I heard her call "LUPE!"

And before I could say "Kick... Push... Coast," I was talking to Lupe Fiasco.

For the next half hour or so, Lupe skooled me in skateboarding, sneakers, being Hip Hop's new darling, changing the world and of course, a robot named Seymour. Check it out:

Miss Hipsta: How you doin?

Lupe Fiasco: Uh, I’m good, I’m good.

MH: Long day?

LF: Nah, short day, short day…

MH: Oh, that’s good.

LF: Very good day…

MH: Well, that’s good. My first question is about skateboarding and how you got into that?

LF: I got into skateboarding when I was like a shorty. It was a toy thing. (He says "what’s up" to someone else) A toy thing, you know, like riding bikes and scooters and all that stuff. It was like…a toy. I skated for a minute when I was really small and then it phased out. I became like a teenager and left it alone and then I picked it right back up about a year and a half ago cause I got back really heavy into collecting sneakers, and you know a lot of the dope sneakers are in skate shops and stuff like that, so I was like “Yo, lemme get a board.”

MH: Well, do you remember what your very first skateboard was?

LF: It was like a little small, plastic, blue, Lords of Dogtown looking board with big ass yellow wheels on it but it was plastic.

MH: That sounds kinda cool. So it said in the Fader article that you had published the song “Kick, Push” and it was about the guy who gave you your…

LF: The dude who gave me, not that skateboard, but the first skateboard I got when I started back.

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