Lupe Fiasco’s “Kick, Push” is one of the most iconic songs the rapper has ever created. But did you know it wasn’t even supped to be a single?
Lupe Fiasco sat down with DJ Skee for SKEE Live and spoke about how the the song and gave some background on how record companies deal with albums. The Chicago native says that the was not accepted by a large portion of the skateboarding community upon its release.
“There was some very insecure skaters, Tony Hawk not being one of them, fortunately, who just felt like I was trying to encroach on their territory when I really did the song as a tribute for a skate shop,” Lupe Fiasco says “It was never ‘posed to be a single, never meant to be a single. It was for a skate shop called Uprise for a skate DVD and then it just took a life of its own…But when you’re the first through the wall, you always get a little bloody. Then it paves the way for the Lil Wayne’s and the other people to kind of come in and capitalize on the culture even 10 times more than I did. From there all the way up until now, I always try and make things that I’m personally attached to, that have a personal vibration with me that I feel are real and honest and wherever that takes me. So whether that’s skateboarding or having a grandmother that passed away from cancer and homies that are fighting it right now to make a song like ‘Mission,’ it’s all in the same boat.” He and SKEE also discuss why he considered cutting his upcoming Tetsuo & Youth album down to 11 tracks.
Also in the same sit down, Lupe touched on his current relationships with Kanye West & Jay-Z who were the first two to bring him into the spotlight with “Touch The Sky”. Early on in 2002 Lupe was considering signing to Roc A Fella but he and his team has a different plan.
Tetsuo & Youth is coming soon.
