Obama a terrorist? Lupe Fiasco on politics and music
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Fiasco was responding to a question from host Shira Lazar about political content in his popular rap albums. He continued, “For me, I’m trying to fight the terrorism that’s causing the other forms of terrorism. You know the root cause of terrorists is the stuff the U.S. government allows to happen. The foreign policies that we have in place in different countries that inspire people to become terrorists.”
Fiasco’s extreme political views are partly what fuels his rap and intrigues his 600,000 Twitter followers. On a track from new album, “Lasers,” he raps, “Limbaugh is a racist, Glenn Beck is a racist, Gaza Strip was getting burned, Obama didn’t say sh-t, That’s why I ain’t vote for him, next one either….”
In fact, Fiasco told Shira that voting is meaningless. “I don’t vote. No I don’t vote. I don’t get involved in politics. It’s meaningless. To be honest,” he said. “If I’m going to say I stand behind this person and write on a piece of paper that says, ‘yeah I stand for this person,’ then I have to take responsibility for everything he does cause that’s just who I am as a human being. So politicians aren’t going to do that because I don’t want you to bomb some village in the middle of nowhere.”