Chi-town rapper, Lupe Fiasco, may be a skateboarder, but that doesn't mean he ain't tough or scares easy. Nope, he' rougher than you can imagine.

In a recent interview in the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly, Lupe talked a little about his life as a child and he said the gangsta image doesn't scare him. In fact, he revealed that he used to call out gangbangers who stepped to him.

"When the gangbangers would try to pull it, I was like, 'Yo, I will f*** you up. And if you wanna call your cousin, call him. I'll call me! I'll call me right now," the rapper told the magazine (via quotes Rap-Up pulled from the interview).

The rapper went on to reveal that his upbringing is a little rougher than most would imagine, and went as far as to say he was "shooting Tec-9s" as a child.

"We were shooting TEC-9s when we were babies, so the whole gangsta image, that ain't nothing," he said. "When I was growing up, there was a crack house next door to us and they were trying to expand. My father was like, 'Are you serious?' He took his gun, walked next door, and said, 'You’re done,' while I aimed my gun out of the window. I was 13 or 14 and to see that, a lot of the facade and the upkeep [of trying] to impress people was eliminated very early for me."

Lupe Fiasco's sophomore album, The Cool, is in stores now.