 Lupe Fiasco has been popping up on blogs and publications for months now, as he prepares for the release of his long-awaited Lasers album next month. But in one of his most recent interviews, the Chicago rapper revealed the painful journey he traveled to get to this point.
In a feature piece with Details, its revealed that Lupe fell into a deep depression after initially submitting his third album -- over two years ago -- to Atlantic Records who shelved the project, indefinitely, and froze his production budget.
While he eventually got past that hurdle, the rapper dealt with the hardship in a track on Lasers, entitled "Beautiful Lasers," in which he reveals that he flirted with the idea of suicide.
On the track, Lupe spits: "If you feel like you don't want to be alive / You feel just like I am."
But that was just a song though, right? Did he really contemplate suicide?
"To keep from killing somebody else," Lupe told Details in response. "The creation of Lasers was a very painful, dark, f***ed-up process."
Despite the dark period the rapper endured over the past few years, things began to turn around late last year, when Lupe's fans took matters into their own hands, sparking a rebellion against Atlantic where they demanded that they finally be given Lasers.
Fans launched an online petition in July 2010 for just this cause, garnering nearly 30,000 signatures before announcing a fan-attended protest outside Atlantic Records offices in New York.
But before the protest could go down, the label gave in to fans' demands, held a meeting with Lupe, and announced a release date for the long-delayed album.
At the time, Lupe tweeted one word "Victory," accompanied by a photo with an label executive, followed by a formal announcement that Lasers is due out March 8.
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