Lupe Fiasco waves to audience after security shuts down show
*Lupe “bad boy” Fiasco strikes again.
Sunday, Fiasco was asked to leave the stage during his performance at an inauguration party in Washington, D.C., reports Politico.
The rapper had been repeating politically charged lyrics for an unusually long time when event officials forced him to stop, according to various attendees.
“So Lupe played one anti-war song for 30 min and said he didn’t vote for Obama and eventually was told to move on to the next song,” Josh Rogin, a reporter at Foreign Policy, tweeted from the bash hosted by StartUp RockOn. “Lupe refused to move to the next song so a team of security guards came on stage and told him to go.”
Video of the incident posted online shows Lupe rapping part of the song “Words I Never Said” before he’s asked to stop. “Limbaugh is a racist, Glenn Beck is a racist,” he says. “Gaza Strip was getting bombed, Obama didn’t say s—t. That’s why I ain’t vote for him, next one either.”
You’re probably wondering how Fiasco, whose widely known as an Obama hater, was even invited to an inaugural event in the first place. Well, so are we.
Read more at Politico.
Watch the video and see what happens:
What he said was not over the top. T
Maybe not the best time to go in on Obama like that, with the inauguration and all that going on. But what he said was true. There actions didn’t really make Obama look good, either. He still has his first amendment rights, or is that suspended for the inauguration?
Nobody was puling punches when it was Bush turn. But I guess they realize now how much they screwed up.
Media company HyperVocal — a StartUp Rock On partner involved with the event — addressed what happened shortly afterward on Twitter. “Disappointed that an artist took opportunity to use an event celebrating innovation/startups to make a political statement,” the tweet read.
But the company later stressed that Lupe “was NOT kicked off stage for an anti-Obama rant.”
In an official statement sent Monday, StartUp RockOn said that organizers “decided to move on to the next act” to end a “bizarrely repetitive, jarring performance that left the crowd vocally dissatisfied.”
Yeah, right. It’s obvious the crowd was feeling Lupe.
A few things….
1. When would be the best time for him to “go in on Obama”? I say this was a great time if that’s what he was going to do. Protests aren’t done to make people feel good.
2. I wish these media outlets would stop relying on twitter reports from people and send reporters to find out what exactly happened, because what someone wrote on twitter and the video don’t match up.
3. Why isn’t it a big deal that he called Glen Beck and Limbaugh racists in the song?
4. It seemed like the crowd was feeling Lupe despite what someone on twitter wrote.
Oh I wonder how many folks here said it wasn’t the time when Kanye West got on national tv and said “George Bush doesn’t like black people”?
Apparently Lupe Fiasco had planned to get an invite to the Inaugural, so he could perform his song that contains a diss remark against Obama, and accusations of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck are racist. Whether anyone like it, or not he used this event that had an enormous gathering to gain more fame, attention and get his message out prior to having the switched pulled on his act. Seeking to go down in the history books on this. etc. More than likely this will be the highlight of his career.
How do you “plan to get a invite”? They hired him to be the headliner.
Why do you expand time asking question, then turn around and provide your own answer?Whether it was invitational, hired on or not. Frankly, no major deal here. The bottom line he accomplished what he’d set out to do.
WTF did the EXPECT form this dude!?? He’s “BEEN” an Obie hater, for years now! His shyt wasn’t done “to get a damn gig”!!, so…????? Stevie Wonder could “see” something like this, was g’on happen. SMGDH!
Sorry, expect….”from”!
It’s ok for Lupe to have his opinion of Obama but I don’t understand why would he show up to any inauguration event when he already has a disdain for him. There’s a time and place for everything. It was very inappropriate and unnecessary. He should have stayed at home in Chicago and not bother to attend with those ill antics. So silly!
The time for a protest is were it will get the most attention. I BET you didn’t say this about Kanye West when he said Bush doesn’t like black people. For the message e wanted to send,this was the perfect place.
Lupe like any other disdain person has every bit of right to express their opinion. Doesn’t matter if others like it or not? Would it occur to anyone that he wanted to be where the masses of folks where? He obviously wanted to get his message out, whether words were hateful or not. Not at all did he demonstrate any problems performing his song that had diss remarks for Obama. Furthermore, I didn’t hear the crowed booing him either as they seem to have cheered him on. It’s apparent that he was the least concerned of about time and place. Neither did he care whether it was inappropriate or not. This world has people that may not value or give a sh*t about decency or respect as others care etc. More than likely this will be documented and go down as history in lieu of his rap career that is really next to nothing.
President Obama has thousands of haters, what’s one more??? Lupe’s 2 minutes has long been expired, they cheered him on in hopes he would continue to entertain the crowd with his usual foolery, he needs to STFD and STFU