Lupe Fiasco is regarded by many fans as one of the coldest artists to ever touch a microphone. But these days, he is influencing a different type of art.
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MIT is The Inspiration Behind Lupe Fiasco’s New Music
Fiasco currently holds a role as a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Per a new report from WBUR, Lupe’s latest music is being directly inspired by the institute.
Through a process called “ghotiing” (pronounced as “fishing”), the “Kick, Push” artist sends his MIT students out in the field. To view different public art pieces across MIT’s campus that they believe will be helpful in the inspiration for his new music.
Using the art on MIT’s campus as the driving force behind his music won’t just be beneficial to Lupe’s fans. It will also promote the institution’s Percent for Art program. An initiative that commissions new permanent art on MIT’s campus every time there is a major construction project.
“Once it’s given to the curators, and they decide where to kind of put and place, you realize that, ‘Oh, there’s a wider story that’s being told on campus, a very quiet story, but big and loud,” he said of the program.
Lupe also noted that his ability to remain relevant in the rap game these days has been largely due to his innovativeness, as he has always dared to be different.
“You don’t need to be the same as everybody else to keep up,” Fiasco said, “You just need to be your asymmetrical self.”
The Chicago-born artist initially joined the institution in 2022 as an expert in the arts and humanities. But he has now returned, looking to kick things into a higher gear.
But MIT isn’t the only institution for higher learning that Lupe has affiliated himself with. He also announced that he will be joining the highly acclaimed Johns Hopkins University as a professor.
