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Lupe Fiasco
As the early 2000s hip-hop scene drowned in aggression, bravado and bling, Lupe
Fiasco was a throwback to an era of more articulate, socially conscious rap
stars and became dubbed 'the geek MC' thanks to his love of comic books and
skateboarding, his fluid freestyles to jazzy beats and his penchant for dropping
references to Noam Chomsky and George Orwell.
Born Wasalu Muhammad Jaco into a Muslim family in Chicago, his tough inner city
neighbourhood was plagued with drugs, gangs and prostitutes but, through his
father's wide cultural interests, he grew up surrounded by National...
