Lupe Fiasco

A West Side Chicago native, Wasalu Jaco blended skateboard culture, Islam, and literary ambition into a cerebral lyrical style.

His acclaimed albums "Food & Liquor" and "The Cool" produced the hit "Superstar," and he became a fixture of conscious hip-hop and an MIT visiting scholar.

He won a Grammy Award and earned wide critical acclaim for intellectually rigorous lyricism.

Lupe Fiasco is one of conscious rap's most ambitious lyricists, prized for dense, message-driven writing.