Lupe Fiasco’s ENERGY UPLIFTS the Black Community

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

Lupe Fiasco’s ENERGY

I love Lupe Fiasco’s ENERGY. He signifies the type of Brother that’s rapidly becoming nonexistent. A Brother who has a intelligence of dominance due to his world-shattering ENERGY and gift to see that falling into negativity is the real trap. A trap that only damages the person that falls into it and the community.

Black men with Lupe’s ENERGY have been swapped by Black men who have logic of false influence and use egotism to hide their flaws. All the while they sell their people and self, down the river. They’re ENERGY is like a drug to other men who have the same personalities. Just like drugs it gives a momentary sense of power but has demoralizing after-effects. Most Brothers in the street want someone who can make them feel sanctioned and OK with the immoral choices they are making. That’s why the sense of hidden shame due to un-constructiveness has been blanketed with blatant arrogance.

Lupe can’t sell out and won’t shift; even as he sees the achievements of others seem to dominate his. He stays true in spite of the force from an Industry that treats him like a stepchild because he won’t adapt. An industry that humbly tolerates him, oppose to stand behind him and push his music and career. Only the conscious thinking ones repetitively seek him out. Others forget about him and his ENERGY and stay absorbed in music that epitomizes the chains of their troubled lives. Chains that continue to grasp them down even if they try to escape by altering their minds. When they awake the chains are still present and substantial than ever.

I can feel Lupe, if you don’t want to promote an ENERGY that can become a counter ENERGY to what has this race imprisoned by having an negative mentality, the Universe says “screw you” and remains to repeat what you are and what you support……….CRAP!

Not only will I support the album, but I will also dialogue about it, spread it and back an ENERGY that can conceivably make low standard, damaging rappers feel more intuitive about their activities. They only feel influence in negativity because we tolerate it. We have permitted those with condensed standards and negative characters to have the presence of power and that gives to retaining more souls.