Lupe Fiasco speaks on why he believes he’s the best MC alive plus much more on SiriusXM’s Sway In The Morning.
Lupe Fiasco recently appeared on SiriusXM’s Sway In The Morning.
While speaking with SiriusXM’s Sway Calloway, Lupe Fiasco discussed what happened to his supergroup with Pharrell and Kanye West, Child Rebel Soldier, his career success, and more.
Lupe Fiasco on Child Rebel Soldier (23:24-XX)
Sway Calloway: I always wanted to ask you about Child Rebel Soldier.
Lupe Fiasco: Why you keep bringing up these contentious-
Sway Calloway: Is that contentious?
Lupe Fiasco: It’s kind of contentious.
Sway Calloway: I didn’t know that was contentious.
Lupe Fiasco: Not for reasons that you think. Me and P are cool. Me and Ye are cool. It’s just that the fans feel betrayed.
Sway Calloway: Because the project never happened?
Lupe Fiasco: Yeah, but then they blame me and it’s like, it ain’t my fault. It’s the two richest niggas in the group. Y’all putting it on the poorest nigga in the group to bring this across the finish line. Right? P eating caviar, golden sandwiches. Ye is stitching up two different Rick Owens coats to wear in the shower type shit. I’m trying to corral these two. God damn. Your question though. I cut it off. I’m sorry.
Sway Calloway: I read that you were gonna try to, and tell me if this is wrong, jumpstart it by doing things solo.
Lupe Fiasco: So, imma give you the whole story and it’s not long. So, there’s superfans of CRS. Super duper fans. Even a shout to Va$htie. Va$htie just shot our first video “Us Placers,” but that was like, I’m talking decades ago. But it was like fans, people like, “Yo, imma shoot that video. If y’all in it or not, imma do some lookalikes and just go for it,” so there’s a lot of fan momentum around it as a movement and a cultural piece because of the people involved, the quality of it, all that. So, it’s real legit shit. Playing with people’s hearts and emotions, things happen, so we always talk about it. It kind of fell to the wayside. It was never officially anywhere, so it wasn’t officially at any label. I think Ye put out some stuff, but it never landed in a place and then again, niggas get rich and crazy and shit goes left. But that whole time, it’s incubating with people like Tyler, different folks who are like, “Oh shit. That CRS shit. What’s up?” P reached out to me. What’s up? One of the talks was like, “Yo, we old niggas and rich and doing other shit. Why don’t we just get the dudes who would be us now and then just give them CRS and let them do it?” You know and let such and such replace such and such and it just feels like one of those, almost familiar with this group in Japan called Exile. They switched the members out, so it’s still Exile, but the members change and it’s like CRS was the hip-hop Exile and then that kind of went nowhere and then it was like, “You know what? Fuck it. I’m just gonna put a record out.” The initial CRS was me rapping over Radiohead beats. It started with me just rapping over Radiohead beats because I thought they was weird and left and people found it interesting and that’s how you get CRS and Pharrell names it CRS and Ye wanted to be in and I was like, “Alright. I’m just gonna go back to that original energy of me just rapping over Radiohead beats and imma just put this shit out and what happens happens and name it CRS.” So, I did that. I put it out maybe a month ago and they sent the biggest cease and desist. Yeah. Radiohead was like, “Fuck all that.” Listen, I tried. Imma just push it through, right? Just go with the same momentum that we first started with. Just put something out. Let people attach to it and Radiohead was like, “We finna attach this lawyer to that shit. You finna detach that shit from YouTube,” and I was like, “Alright, cool.” So, I’m stepping away from CRS.
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