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As the early 2000s hip-hop scene drowned in aggression, bravado and bling, Lupe Fiasco was a throwback to an era of more articulate, socially conscious rap stars and became dubbed 'the geek MC' thanks to his love of comic books and skateboarding, his fluid freestyles to jazzy beats and his penchant for dropping references to Noam Chomsky and George Orwell. Born Wasalu Muhammad Jaco into a Muslim family in Chicago, his tough inner city neighbourhood was plagued with drugs, gangs and prostitutes but, through his father's wide cultural interests, he grew up surrounded by National...