“activism” “question power” attitude “stand up for the little guy” New Black Panther Party , occupy movement 1 percent against 99 percent “From what I’ve seen, you know, it’s a great classroom. You know, so even people who don’t, who aren’t aware of certain issues to even be frustrated about…the insight that you’ll gain about you’re own situation and you’re own circumstances…is amazing.”

Daly asks about the difficulties of “record a record and promote a record within a business structure that you clearly have issues with.”

“It’s very difficult, because even when I came into the music business, I was a little bit more happy-go-lucky. But I always understood that there was, you know, where the roots meet the robot, is what I would say, where you have something completely organic and completely wild, you know, the creative side, meeting something that is completely inorganic and completely structured and archaic, which was the music business. Sometimes it’s hard to find that balance.”

time between two records, “what motivated you?”

“I tried to find everything. I tried to — it was money — just do it for the money…You have to do it for the money, do it for the fans. You know, do it for — you want to start a car collection.”

“superficial”

“Well that was the thing, you know, we can’t escape superficiality, we can’t. We try, but a lot of things that are around us are superficial. A majority of things that are around us are superficial to be honest. It’s just how you interact with those things and how deeply you internalize those things. I don’t internalize a Ferrari collection…”

3 ferraris, quite pleased about it, “I’m a one-percenter.”

http://www.nbc.com/last-call-with-carson-daly/video/lupe-fiasco/1371971

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