Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Wed, 08/03/2011 - 16:38
Gaza Strip was getting bombed, Obama didn’t say shit
That lyric in Lupe Fiasco’s track “Words I Never Said” brought the Hip hop artist a lot of attention and new fans in the Palestine solidarity community.
The song was featured on his album Lasers which shot to the top of the Billboard 200 charts when it was released last March.
The lyric is a reference to US President Barack Obama’s silence throughout Israel’s 22-day bombardment of Gaza, during the last weeks of his transition to the presidency in January 2008.
What motivated Lupe to tackle the question of Palestine when virtually no other US artist with a mass following will touch the issue?
In a recent video interview with Sama’an Ashrawi, Lupe Fiasco spoke about his early education on Palestine. As a child the artist attended mosque, and had many friends in Chicago’s Southwest Side, where much of the city’s large Palestinian population is concentrated.
Lupe Fiasco is known for his progressive politics and lyrics expressing solidarity with struggles for justice in the United States and around the world.
For Ashrawi, a student at the University of Texas at Austin (UT), the interview brought together two passions – Palestine (where his father was born) and Hip Hop. Ashrawi is Director of Entertainment Programming for UT’s Texas Student Television and he also produces the station’s Hip Hop TV show, Longhorn Hip Hop.
http://electronicintifada.net/blog/ali-abunimah/hip-hop-star-lupe-fiasco-tells-his-early-education-palestine
That lyric in Lupe Fiasco’s track “Words I Never Said” brought the Hip hop artist a lot of attention and new fans in the Palestine solidarity community.
The song was featured on his album Lasers which shot to the top of the Billboard 200 charts when it was released last March.
The lyric is a reference to US President Barack Obama’s silence throughout Israel’s 22-day bombardment of Gaza, during the last weeks of his transition to the presidency in January 2008.
What motivated Lupe to tackle the question of Palestine when virtually no other US artist with a mass following will touch the issue?
In a recent video interview with Sama’an Ashrawi, Lupe Fiasco spoke about his early education on Palestine. As a child the artist attended mosque, and had many friends in Chicago’s Southwest Side, where much of the city’s large Palestinian population is concentrated.
Lupe Fiasco is known for his progressive politics and lyrics expressing solidarity with struggles for justice in the United States and around the world.
For Ashrawi, a student at the University of Texas at Austin (UT), the interview brought together two passions – Palestine (where his father was born) and Hip Hop. Ashrawi is Director of Entertainment Programming for UT’s Texas Student Television and he also produces the station’s Hip Hop TV show, Longhorn Hip Hop.
http://electronicintifada.net/blog/ali-abunimah/hip-hop-star-lupe-fiasco-tells-his-early-education-palestine
anyway just in case you want to hear his music maybe you can check this video:
Lupe Fiasco (ft Skylar Grey) – Words I Never Said Lyrics
[Skylar Grey]It’s so loud Inside my head
With words that I should have said!
As I drown in my regrets
I can’t take back the words I never said
I can’t take back the words I never said
[Lupe Fiasco]
I really think the war on terror is a bunch of bullshit
Just a poor excuse for you to use up all your bullets
How much money does it take to really make a full clip
9/11 building 7 did they really pull it
Uhh, And a bunch of other cover ups
Your childs future was the first to go with budget cuts
If you think that hurts then, wait here comes the uppercut
The school was garbage in the first place, thats on the up and up
Keep you at the bottom but tease you with the uppercrust
You get it then they move you so you never keeping up enough
If you turn on TV all you see’s a bunch of “what the f-cks”
Dude is dating so and so blabbering bout such and such
And that aint Jersey Shore, homie thats the news
And these the same people that supposed to be telling us the truth
Limbaugh is a racist, Glenn Beck is a racist
Gaza strip was getting bombed, Obama didn’t say shit
Thats why I aint vote for him, next one either
I’ma part of the problem, my problem is I’m peaceful
And I believe in the people.
[Skylar Grey]
It’s so loud inside my head
With words that I should have said!
As I drown in my regrets
I can’t take back the words I never said
I can’t take back the words I never said
[Lupe Fiasco - Verse 2]
Now you can say it aint our fault if we never heard it
But if we know better than we probably deserve it
Jihad is not a holy war, wheres that in the worship?
Murdering is not Islam!
And you are not observant
And you are not a muslim
Israel don’t take my side cause look how far you’ve pushed them
Walk with me into the ghetto, this where all the Kush went
Complain about the liquor store but what you drinking liquor for?
Complain about the gloom but when’d you pick a broom up?
Just listening to Pac aint gone make it stop
A rebel in your thoughts, aint gon make it halt
If you don’t become an actor you’ll never be a factor
Pills with million side effects
Take em when the pains felt
Wash them down with Diet soda!
Killin off your brain cells
Crooked banks around the World
Would gladly give a loan today
So if you ever miss payment
They can take your home away!
[Skylar Grey]
It’s so loud inside my head
With words that I should have said!
As I drown in my regrets
I can’t take back the words I never said, never said
I can’t take back the words I never said
[Lupe Fiasco - Verse 3]
I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence
Fear is such a weak emotion thats why I despise it
We scared of almost everything, afraid to even tell the truth
So scared of what you think of me, I’m scared of even telling you
Sometimes I’m like the only person I feel safe to tell it to
I’m locked inside a cell in me, I know that there’s a jail in you
Consider this your bailing out, so take a breath, inhale a few
My screams is finally getting free, my thoughts is finally yelling through
[Skylar Grey]
It’s so loud Inside my head
With words that I should have said!
As I drown in my regrets
I can’t take back the words I never said
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