# What does Lupe Fiasco think of Killah Priest's song B.I.B.L.E.?

*Killah Priest's 'B.I.B.L.E.' and faith built on earlier scriptures*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/21/
- Date: 2021-04-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (1:51:28–1:53:21)
- Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYiiPEhuiHA&t=6688s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/

**Topics:** Christians and other faiths; Music

**Question as asked:** What are your thoughts on Killah Priest's song 'B.I.B.L.E.'?

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** The guest calls Killah Priest's 'B.I.B.L.E.' an amazing record about a spiritual journey, noting that studying Islam's Jewish and Christian sources creates intellectual tension.

## Longer summary

A viewer asks for his thoughts on Killah Priest's song 'B.I.B.L.E.', which Mufti Abu Layth has not heard. The guest says it traces Killah Priest's religious journey through Moorish thought, Islam and Christianity, and that the faith Muslims practise is reinforced by Judaism and Christianity, so going back to the source material, such as the Hebrew Bible he watches lectures on, creates intellectual tension. He says people often move between faiths as each stops making sense, sometimes misled by a weak report or a misreading, and that he sees the song as a person's journey rather than anything blasphemous.

## Sources and names cited

- Lupe Fiasco (guest)
- Killah Priest
- the Hebrew Bible

## Transcript (machine tier, 1:51:28–1:53:21)

[1:50:48] i'm not as famous as i was but when i had that moment you know i took the opportunity like i'm going to use this space you know to kick some political thought off yeah you know and challenge some folks so yeah i think it was around the time like occupy wall street and kind of other stuff like that so there was this sense of like you know there the the one percent is a thing it's real wealth disparities thing militarism is a thing all these things are things that are real um and rap needs to have a uh needs to speak on it just a little bit and not and i'm not the only one that that does it shout to immortal technique you know shout out to tyler quality most deaf all these different conscious rappers killer mike uh different folks who speak

[1:51:28] truth to that power kendrick lamar et cetera et cetera there's been a question the question here lupe's thoughts on killer priest song bible oh the basic instructions before leaving earth right fantastic basis instructions before leaving earth have you ever heard that song have i no no i haven't actually oh man he he goes through like um his his religious journey um he that to me that's not the that's a great song but he has another song on it that i listen to all the time um it's a poem where it's a poem over like a didgeridoo i can't even think of the name of it right now

[1:52:06] um but anyway he's he's like he gets into all of the nooks and crannies moorish and and and islam and christianity and all of these things and you know fortunately or unfortunately um the faith that we practice is compounded you know is is it's it's reinforced by judaism it's reinforced by christianity it's reinforced by there's other inputs to it um it's not just kind of a self-generated thing it references other pieces and for some folks when you start to do the due diligence of going backwards into the source material you know stuff gets wacky you know and i think anybody who studies the hebrew bible which i do

[1:52:43] well i watch a lot of lectures about it but when you start to get into these stories and and the reference points and et cetera i mean it creates some some intellectual tension for you to kind of grab on to and i think that you know killer priest kind of went in like went in on it um and i think you see that kind of migration of folks coming into you know just being spiritual being raised in one thing it stops making sense they find something that's relative that makes sense then for a moment they're in it but then they start to see things in it that disrupt it you know and whether it be a valid innovation or be something

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment oYiiPEhuiHA/s/21. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/21/

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