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.
Article comments
1 - seba
what the fuck man there's a fucking banner over the whole interview DAAMN
2 - tdotk1d
how the hell are we supposed to know if this is real or not. this could easily be something you made up, taken from previous interviews and mashed up, with your elementary narration.