Lupe Fiasco looks to future

Hip hop's saving grace Lupe Fiasco has already made mention of being over it, saying he wants to make one more album before retiring.

The rapper, who's second album 'The Cool' was released in December last year, told MTV, "I don't want to say I'm 100 percent sure, like, 'Yeah, this is it.' But 85 percent. That 15 percent is the X factor. That could be bills. Like, 'Lupe, you got to pay the bills.' 'Oh, man, I got to put out another album.'"

He added, "I love the performing, I could perform forever. I'll be on stage until I'm 90 doing 'Kick, Push' and all that stuff if I can. But it's the whole process of it that wears you down."

While Lupe might only want to do one more album (he claims that was all he ever wanted to do), hopefully this won't stop him working with the Child Rebel Soldiers.

In that same MTV interview, Fiasco said, "Pharrell [Williams] came up with the idea 'Let's do a group, Child Rebel Soldiers,' So, I did a song. Took Thom Yorke's 'Eraser,' cut it up, put 'Us Placers' on it, because I was going to do a mix-tape called 'Us Placers' and remake Thom Yorke's album and Radiohead's stuff. I sent the record out, and it was initially supposed to have Kanye, and I wanted The Streets. The Streets, I got no response. He asked me to do the song for one of his artists. Then Kanye jumped on it and was like, 'I'm going to send it to P.' Then P sent it back, and it was like, 'This is the first song right here. Let's do it.' That was, like, a year and a half ago, and the whole time we've been figuring out what to do."

These quotes might be a tad contridictary, but with any luck they'll give some kind of an insight to what Fiasco is hoping to achieve in the next couple of years.

Undercover.com.au