Lupe Fiasco Wanted 'Mission' To Be 'Uplifting'... But Still A Little 'Ratchet' — mtv.com

Lupe Fiasco is on a “Mission” to empower those affected by cancer with his latest single, but he wasn’t always sure that the song would head in that direction. “When I first heard the track, and the chorus was already in the track, it was like, ‘Hm, what can you talk about, with what the chorus is saying?’ ” Lupe told MTV News on Wednesday (June 4). “You could be cliche and be like, basketball, a story about a basketball player. Or just something very, very general.” But the Chicago native didn’t want to take that route.

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