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Lupe Fiasco Explains Why Rappers Actually Get Better as They Age: ‘Our Muscle Is Our Cognition’
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History has suggested that the older you get, the worse your music becomes. After so long in the industry, you eventually run out of good ideas, and your work progressively declines. Some artists have been able to buck the trend, especially across the 2020s. The Cure released one of their best, most haunting albums with their 2024 record Songs of a Lost World. Clipse proved that after two decades, you could still make a premier rap album.
Lupe Fiasco also circumvents the notion that you get worse as you get older. His ideas have only gotten weirder and more interesting. For instance, his Samurai LP imagines Amy Winehouse as a battle rapper. Additionally, Lupe would argue that you’re supposed to get even better as you get older.
In a 2022 interview with The Ringer, the Chicago MC compared and........