DRILL MUSIC is a taut analysis of the material lives of artists and the value of mall-kiosk diamonds, produced entirely by Lupe’s longtime collaborator Soundtrakk and shot through with jazz flourishes the contemporary study Lupe details is evident in songs like “ AUTOBOTO,” with its rolling flow and foregrounded phonetics, while the pocket on “ NAOMI” is one that he could have burrowed into back in 2005. Lupe’s eighth album, DRILL MUSIC IN ZION, was recorded in three days last year and released in June to little fanfare and somewhat tepid reviews-a shame, considering it’s his strongest LP since 2007’s The Cool. I want to reduce all of that stuff, all that training data, into something that is novelly mine.” That doesn’t necessarily mean that when I do a project, that I’m going to make a project that covers all of those styles. For me, professionally, I’m always learning, building up my skill set. Now, I need to study Durk-and it never stops. “A lot of my style is pieces and parts of everybody else’s,” he says, recounting his teenaged years poring over the work of rappers like Jay-Z, MJG, Aesop Rock, and 2Pac. Speaking to The Ringer by phone, however, he describes the more familiar kind of study that he practices in his career as an artist. Visiting Professors and Scholars Program, which will see him teach a course on rap that he says will trace the relationship between the form and scientific disciplines like astrophysics and evolutionary biology. This school year, Lupe is returning to MIT as part of its Dr.
“Decoding something, encoding something, sending secret messages-hiding messages within other messages.” Computer science majors in surgical masks rap about pandemic loneliness electrical engineers show off data sets that allegedly predict chord progression. “A cypher has multiple meanings,” says Lupe, now 40, bits of gray hair poking out from under a backward baseball cap. There is a video on MIT’s website of Lupe Fiasco, the Chicago rapper famous for self-consciously multilayered songwriting and motifs that span multiple albums across many years, explaining the premise of Code Cypher, a one-day “programming competition for language and rhythm” that he cohosted as a visiting artist at the school in the fall 2021.
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