Summary of the answer (machine-made, not yet checked; a summary, not his words and not a checked position): The guest says he did not know DMX closely, and describes meeting Dave Chappelle.

Recordings › Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM · 26 Apr 2021 › Segment 22 of 27

Did Lupe Fiasco know DMX?

combining prayers jam' al-salah jam bayn al-salatayn jam' al-salatayn bid'ah bida biddat bidaa dhaeef zaeef da'eef da'if hadith weak hadith hijrah hijra hijrat hijri

Did he know DMX? And meeting Dave Chappelle

QuestionLive chat · questioner not identifiedAnswered 26 Apr 2021MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Segment 22 of 27 in the recording2021-04-26-S22

Includes guest speechQuoted view · not his position

Play from 1:53:21 The video loads from YouTube only when you press play. Click a time in the transcript to seek.

Watch the answer

Open on YouTube at 1:53:21

The player starts at 1:53:21, where the answer begins.

This segment1:53:21 to 1:54:40 · 1 min 19 sA view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held

The answer in brief

machinesummary, machine-written

The guest says he did not know DMX closely, and describes meeting Dave Chappelle.

In more detail

A viewer asks whether he knew DMX. The guest says they moved in the same studio circles in Chicago and probably met, but he did not have a deep relationship with him as he does with Kanye or Jay-Z. He adds that he met Dave Chappelle a few times, most vividly at a jam session of a jazz musician friend, and calls him a cool brother whose comedy he loves.

Question as read aloud · questioner not identified
Did you know DMX?

Position stated

This segment presents a view in order to discuss or respond to it. It is recorded as quoted, never as held, and no position is attributed from it.

Kind: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held Speakers: host and guest; guest speech is labelled and excluded from positions

Transcript

machine1:53:21 to 1:54:40 · click a time to seek · dotted terms open the glossary

A guest speaks in this segment. Guest speech is labelled and is excluded from the positions layer.

This segment states a view in order to discuss it. It is recorded as a quoted view, not as a position held.

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

1:53:21

some nonsense some daif you know your word for it a piece i guess they they fall into some narrative that's like off-center or some weird you know uh misunderstanding of some text um and then they go off into something else and they become critiques you know of or criticize not to say that he did it in a way where it's like super bogus or blasphemous or something like that i just look at it as somebody on their journey but it's an amazing record like with all that said it stands as an amazing song somebody's asked that did you did you know dmx they've asked um i didn't know him like personally i feel like we've met we've definitely been in some of the

1:54:00

same circles um he had did an album he was working on i think a movie or an album or something in chicago um and we were kind of we're in the same circle in terms of studio and music folks in the city um but i haven't i didn't have like a super deep kind of relationship with him like that not as like how i know kanye or i know jason and similarly dave chappelle yeah i met david i met dave how many times do i met dave i can't remember most vividly was that a con my friend robert glasper is a jazz musician he does these jam sessions and he brings out everybody like everybody just come out and like dave

1:54:39

chappelle was just there like on the steps and we had a a nice little chat he's a he's a cool brother man he's a cool dude yeah i love his comedy i love it and of course oh man there was a question here that how did you how how did you come across me actually that's a a good question let me let me let me massage my ego hey get the biceps make sure you hit the foot and the trap stop

Paragraphs overlapping 1:53:21 to 1:54:40. Full text on the recording page.

Cite this segment

Stable id, transcript version and tier are part of the citation. Every change to a transcript is logged.

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 2021-04-26-S22, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/22/ (accessed 1 November 2026)

APA 7

Mufti Abu Layth. (2021, April 26). Did Lupe Fiasco know DMX? [Video, segment 2021-04-26-S22, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/22/

Chicago author-date

Mufti Abu Layth. 2021. "Did Lupe Fiasco know DMX?" Video, segment 2021-04-26-S22, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded April 26, 2021. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/22/

BibTeX

@misc{abulayth-2021-04-26-S22,
  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Did Lupe Fiasco know DMX?}},
  year = {2021},
  month = {4},
  date = {2021-04-26},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/22/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/22/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2021-04-26-S22, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}

Something wrong here?

Tell us what is wrong and it will be checked against the recording. Nothing changes until a person has reviewed it.

Sending a note needs JavaScript, which is off or unavailable in this browser. Nothing has been sent.

No name, email address or account is asked for or stored, and the inbox does not store your IP address. For rate limiting it keeps an unreadable fingerprint of your connection for 48 hours, and our database provider's own logs record connections as every website's do. Only your note, its kind, the page and the moment in the recording are kept, for review.