# Is Lupe Fiasco retiring from music?

*Retirement, turning forty and life as a garden*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/24/
- Date: 2021-04-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (1:57:50–2:01:29)
- 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=7070s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/

**Topics:** Goals, habits and willpower; Guest conversations

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** The guest says he is not retiring but reorganising his life at forty around the metaphor of a garden, preparing for major technological change.

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth asks about the guest's announcement that he is hanging up the gloves. The guest says he cannot really retire but is organising his life as he turns forty, reviewing what he did in his twenties and thirties, and adopting a new metaphor of life as a garden, with more order and control, rather than a jungle, as his body starts to hit walls. He says he expects serious technological change within the next ten years, such as life extension and full immersion in simulations, and wants to simplify and prepare.

## Sources and names cited

- Lupe Fiasco (guest)

## Transcript (machine tier, 1:57:50–2:01:29)

[1:57:10] definitely did like watching this one salafi cat uh and not to disparage any salafists but it uh it it gave me a kind of protocol to kind of come off that voodoo obsession yeah you know and it was like bro like think about something else there's bigger fish to fry and it's like don't worry don't worry about whether you did it three times or two times or forgot to do your face or something like that right um and like if you want if it's really that bad do this if you're really that bad do that and it's just very practical and and done but then it'll be something else that's like i don't know if i believe that like i don't know that sounds a little that sounds a little medieval right there but i don't know so it's that's how i kind of got him got into with with you and i think we've

[1:57:49] kind of been in like the dms over the past like a couple years or so yeah just kind of throwing questions and you were humbly able to respond i'm at your service i i mean look at that people if you've got lupe on youtube watching me oh my god you're part of the discord wow so one of the questions that what is what is your what is your journey here forward because you'd made an announcement about kind of putting up the gloves and and so what what is what is your trajectory uh conceptually moving forward

[1:58:28] um i mean i'll still be we we're thinking about like what is retiring like what does that mean yeah i mean you're not going to be able to pay your bills anymore is that what that means i guess i can't retire retire i can like uh i'm really just kind of honestly i'm just organizing you know my life at this point i'm going to be you know humdilla i'm 39.

[1:58:51] gonna be 40 40 inshallah life begins at 40 lupe it begins at 40 allahu akbar so um i'm trying to just organize things and like okay what do you want to do for your 40s you know you did this for your 20s you did this for your 30s um here's the here's the balance sheet of that period now you're hitting 40. what do you want to do for your 40s right and part of it is like you know i really kind of want to not do what i was doing in my 30s you know at least at the certain capacity or certain levels so i'm i'm introducing a new metaphor into my

[1:59:31] life and trying to live off that was in this life is a garden right at a certain point life was a jungle right but now i want to have a little bit more organization a little bit more control a little bit more metrics a little bit more things in their proper place um in a little more order um because i know my body is going to start you know hitting certain walls and there's certain stuff that's happening literally right now with my hip man i wish these gems would get out of my hips

[2:00:04] we need an exorcism [Applause] but like you know just looking at um existence you know and like you know what do i want the quality of my existence to be and how do i want to kind of use my 40s to define you know if you know inshallah i have 50s or 60s you know what do i want that to be and in the face of what's happening in the world you know all the technology all of these advancements am i going to get a newer link play mario brothers with my brain you know uh there's some real there's some real serious things that are coming down you know for humanity in terms of technology so i think literally in the next 10 years

[2:00:43] we're going to be really faced with some life extension stuff some you know things that you know this generation will be and people that are alive right now we'll be able to take advantage of to be like you know what does it mean to extend your life another 30 40 years is that what does that look like you know um what does it look like to live in the live in the matrix you know to be fully immersed in the simulation to be and real you know for that to be a thing i think technology's heading that way so just trying to like simplify organize and get prepared for what's next and hope that the world doesn't melt you know

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment oYiiPEhuiHA/s/24. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/24/

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