Art Official Intelligence ft Lupe Fiasco | The Almanac of Rap

For our season finale we talk to Lupe Fiasco about his concept albums, his work with MIT, Yale and Google and history in martial arts. We also talk about the many supergroups he’s started and get a status update on if they are active or dormant.

Lupe Fiasco is a grammy award winning rapper who has found a voice outside the booth by teaching classes about rap at MIT and working with Google’s large language model to develop a TextFX, an AI tool made specifically for writers.

For more information visit:
Lupe Fiasco: LupeFiasco.com
Donwill: Donwill.me or donwill.substack.com
Okayplayer: Okayplayer.com

CREDITS
The Almanac of Rap is Executive produced by Donwill & Isha Sesay for Okayplayer Media. This episode was written and hosted by Donwill. Produced by Travis Harris.Edited by Travis Harris & Kobina Baffour. Art Direction by Kaushik Kalidindi. Graphic Design by Crystal Simone. Music Production by Von Pea.


Timecodes:
0:00 - Intro
2:00 - The Ballistics
9:40 - Welcome, Lupe Fiasco!
10:30 - Skateboarding Update
11:50 - Food & Liquor/Free Chill
15:04 - Making Drill Music
16:15 - Concept Albums
19:08 - Favorite Album
19:59 - Child Rebel Soldier
25:49 - All City Chess Club
27:36 - SOSA: Society Of Spoken Art
33:55 - Glasses In Hip Hop
36:53 - Lupe’s Inventions
38:08 - Creating Rap Genius
39:20 - Getting Rap In The Classroom
43:46 - TextFX
48:26 - Lupe & Martial Arts
52:30 - Relationship With Virgil Abloh
55:51 - Collecting Samurai Swords
57:57 - Current Listens
1:01:07 - Opinion On Drill Music & Its Impact
1:06:35 - Advice From Lupe Fiasco
1:10:06 - Outro
1:11:05 - Bonus Content