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Lupe Fiasco cancels delayed album releases over anti-Semitism claims
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 14 December 2016
Lupe Fiasco has announced that he’s “officially not releasing any more music” in response to accusations of anti-Semitism. The rapper released a new track earlier this week in which he references “dirty Jewish execs”.
The new track in question, ‘NERD’, was released on SoundCloud on Monday, in which he raps: “Artists gettin robbed for their publishing/By dirty Jewish execs who think that it’s alms from the covenant”.
After numerous accusations of anti-Semitism, Lupe Fiasco denied the claims on Twitter saying that he was “getting beat up for telling the truth”. Among a string of tweets defending himself, he said: “I just find it odd that these executives stealing from artists is not the outrage and hasn’t been mentioned yet”.
Asked why the execs’ religion was in any way relevant, he replied: “Because in my case they were Jewish”.
He also claimed that SoundCloud had taken down the track due to it being “hate speech”, announcing at this point “I’m done”. However, the track is still online and available to listen to:
Nevertheless, he then announced: “I get the hint, God. Yo Lupe fans, it’s been fun and I hope you’ve had fun. I’m officially not releasing any more music. Album’s cancelled”.
Lupe Fiasco said last year that he would release three new albums in 2016, none of which have yet materialised. In October he said that there was now a “strong chance” nothing would come out this year after all, due to “clearance and mixing issues”. A new album, ‘Drogas’, was planned for release early next year.
