Fiasco identifies with a similar struggle of the admired and expands on the respective narrative, illustrating the story through his lens. Cover art for Lupe ... how to make songs properly.

The world would never get to hear those bars, but Lupe Fiasco gave us an imaginative depiction ... as a straight-through narrative, he wrote songs that highlighted various junctures in Samurai ...

battling from the bottom to the top, and finding inspiration from larger-than-life figures. It's an overlap more than surface ...

“Lupe Fiasco performed at this private event, and as you may have read, he left the stage earlier than we had planned,” the event’s organizers said in a statement. “But Lupe Fiasco was not ...

To hear the full interview, click the audio player at the top of this page or watch our interview on YouTube. Rapper Lupe Fiasco poses for a photo in the WBEZ performance studio for conversation ...