Lupe Fiasco
American rapper, artist, producer and CEO of 1st and 15th Entertainment.
A definition of ignorance is not KNOWING what we DO & improvement is handicapped when we don't DO what we KNOW.
Separate wealth from value. All living things have value. We impart this value upon lifeless things to give them worth not vice versa.
My teacher's like, "Mr. Jaco?"
"Yes?"
"With all that knowledge, You aint trying to go to college?
Be a lawyer or a doctor, Get a whole lotta dollars?
Rather degrade women and glorify violence?"
"Well the work that works for me might not work for you
No homework, I got work to do."
If you open up your eyes and imagine. Expand your horizon with rhyming and rapping.
Quit rapping and rhyming bout cocaine supplying. And clapping is anyone out there or are yall all absent?
We all trying to get to where the suffering ends. In front of the Most High, being judged for our sins. Can't front for the Most High.
For we all are sinners. Bless us to be amongst the winners when it ends. But until then please strengthen the mission within our hearts.All praise is due to God
But don't forget the blessing is in the struggle. The Most Forgiving will forgive it if you stay repentant and hustle.
Try not to measure your success by the success of others. Success should be defined by one person...Yourself.
Consider power as NOT getting people to obey you, but getting people to work in harmony with you with the goal being mutual benefit.
I'm not a prophet but Fahrenheit 1/15 is being quoted by preachers. Far from being a leader but I'm still being invited by teachers.
Before I start, like to make sure I'm smart. Gather my composure, rather my swagger
and my couture.Pivot my fitted, then begin to rivet, with a change of lyric. In other
words, I reposition how I sit it. Then make you feel it, like I mispronounced “filet.”
Choose respect over fame every time. Fame is just attention. Respect is an attribute of love.
In darkness is where we truly find ourselves, in light we only find others and in others you cannot find yourself.
We all KNOW better, but do we actually DO better?
Knowledge alone is not power, knowledge plus action equals power. Knowledge is useless without action and vice versa.
To gain a better understanding, I'm just trying to make it real/reel. Like a fisherman,
Pon De River fam. I Pon My Bank, deposit my thoughts. Till my mind draws a blank
and I withdraw from checking. I'll leave that with ya'll for a second...
To be unknown but loved by just one is better than being known by many but loved by none.
Greed redefined and corrupted what true power is. Domination is for the weak, Harmony is the true sign of strength.
Didn't have a clue that the rapper was helping the rapers, raiders of the villages, the
pillagers of the school....shooters of the innocents, tortures of the witnesses, burners
of the businesses..and my bracelet was the fuel.
Flowers she would pick like guitar strings, for a real good whiff of how how life behind par seems.