Lupe Fiasco Talks Contemplating suicide

Lupe Fiasco, one of the, if not the most lyrical emcee of the new breeds of rappers, recently touched on an issue that led him to depression, to a point where he actually contemplated suicide. I feel him, and i respect him for coming out to talk about it. There are two things that through my search for self-discovery, i have found that man most want on this earth- they are Love (acceptance), and getting his desire satisfied. This two things, when not gotten are the reasons we have WARS in the world today, and all the other domestic dispute all over the world. And, lupe was at a point when he was not getting acceptance (because he was far beyond his time...far beyond what the general public could comprehend with their shallow minds.), and he also was not getting his hearth's desire (to get his music out there)

Read more below-
Interference began, he says, after executives insisted that The Cool - and its million-selling single Superstar - were considered failures. A fractious process reached rock bottom when Atlantic's chairman, Craig Kallman, told him his verses and performance on a new song the label wanted him to record, called Nothing On You, were "wack". (That was before the song, with Lupe's verses removed and new ones written by its original guest vocalist, his friend B.o.B, became a worldwide hit last year.) "That was the tipping point," he says. "It was less about the bruised ego but more the audacity of it. It was mentally destructive. I say it with a certain laissez-faire now because I'm past it, but back then, hearin' that shit, it fucked me up. I was super-depressed, lightly suicidal, at moments medium suicidal - and if not suicidal, willing to just walk away from it all completely." (The Guardian)

Personally, i think we all have our places on this earth- we are all special and unique. I think the problem is that Atlantic records execs should have known that lupe was not going to be good for a song like that. That song is too poppish for a lupe. Anyway, i feel how lupe would have felt when they told him his verse was wack- wow! Lupe, wack!!? Nah! Never. He was just put in the wrong place.

Read below how he was specifically told by execs at Atlantic records to dumb down his music-
"I was specifically told" -- Fiasco chuckled -- "'Don't rap too deep on this record.'" He laughed some more. "That was a specific order from the top. 'You're rapping too fast or too slow, or it's too complex.' ... There are consequences and combat that comes from that process and the eventual compromise. With me, though, I'm not writing about someone else. I'm writing about me. This is my life. It's very personal for me. So for somebody to kind of put their fingers in that and play with that, it becomes more damaging." (Chicago Sun-Times)


In other news, lupe's new album drops on march 8th, that's just a couple of days from now, so you can pre-order it.