# Did Lupe Fiasco know DMX?

*Did he know DMX? And meeting Dave Chappelle*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/22/
- Date: 2021-04-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (1:53:21–1:54:40)
- 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=6801s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/

**Topics:** Guest conversations

**Question as asked:** Did you know DMX?

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** The guest says he did not know DMX closely, and describes meeting Dave Chappelle.

## Longer summary

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.

## Sources and names cited

- Lupe Fiasco (guest)
- DMX
- Dave Chappelle

## Transcript (machine tier, 1:53:21–1:54:40)

[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

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment oYiiPEhuiHA/s/22. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/22/

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