Lupe Fiasco, I love you.

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Over the last two or three years, I’ve been attempting to see Lupe Fiasco live whenever he is making public appearances. I like that he is easy to see, he does shows very frequently. however, he does not make frequent visits to the south, at least for concerts. I’ve been able to fly several times up north to Boston to see him live – in case you are unaware, he is a visiting scholar at MIT. Impressive, yes? I think so, too. (Can you believe that there are now programs emerging at elite collegiate institutions for students to study rap to and learn how to be rappers? WOW. Wow. Yeah, I’m pretty sure most of the rappers I listen to learned by listening to other rappers via the radio, or MTV, BET… the streets. But I’m not really sure… still pretty cool. I know he even visited my alma mater, but I’m not sure as to why.

In early May, MIT + LU did a free to the public concert with some of the students from MIT’s 2025 Jazz Ensemble. It was lovely. No pictures allowed, but here is one from his show with BOB back in 2023. Lupe doesn’t seem to like pictures, hard to get any anyway without the MIC in his face.

Oh well. I’ve seen him plenty.

Lupe

I got to go to Arizona to see him, even got a hotel upgrade, which has nothing to do with him, but it was nice. 4 days in AZ, was super cool. Nice and relaxing but hot. So hot! I sure do wish that the FashionCitizen was still around, they were so much fun to watch and were based in AZ, at least during their height.

Anyway, I’ve noticed that Lupe often has budget friendly tickets or even free to the public events. If you can’t catch him on a solo tour, you might be able to see him with, funny enough, touring rock bands during the summer. (If you don’t know who he is, he is one of Pharrell‘s close phriends, or was. I tried soooo hard to talk up CRS on Twitter a few years back but I’ll just have to accept that it is now defunct. I don’t want lie though, I’ve done some searches for his events and they don’t always feature him. So if you’re trying to see him for the free, be careful as the event might just be about him. One example is the DMV Festival, Words, Beats, and Life, he was the first honoree to receive the Rap Laureate, but he was not able to attend the event. The program was beautiful nonetheless. Though he was not in attendance, I did have a good time staying at the Capsule Hostel near Howard University. What an experience.

I hope that one day I can get a picture with him and an autograph on sweatshirt I purchased on Mercari – this is a good place to get things if you missed out MERCH from different eras like I did. I even got one of the 1/50 tees from his ITJOTLOD time – check out the Japanese Cartoon (Lupe’s rock bank) album here if you haven’t ever heard it before.

I only have one question to ask him and he has been hard to chat with… but I’ll just pose it here:

Lupe, if you ever read this, how do you come up with your album concepts? They’re really great. As a arts student in undergrad, I struggled with concepts. I’m technical, but having good concepts is essential to making good work.

Good work. <3

The Midea AC U – Recall Alert – DANGIT.

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Arghhh. I just got my Midea AC unit from Amazon a few months ago and installed it myself. The install was so easy.

recalled midea unit

When I got my bonus earlier this year, I knew for sure that I needed to get an AC, but not a Mr.Cool. No sir, that will run me over $5000, easy, not to mention, the installing. Ugh, I needed something cheap, something that would work well, and be somewhat easy to look at. My mind wandered back to the Mr. Cool units I’d seen while pursuing online. But no, not until I’m closer to selling my home.

If I’ve envisioned my space correctly, the back room which holds my prized compromise, will one day be the place that I entertain my loved ones, complete with a budget appropriate cloud couch, one similar to the couch at Restoration Hardware, but better on my wallet. I still need my wall repaired, said couch, and a few entertainment systems (i.e. a shiny new switch 2 complete with Mario Kart world and Pokemon Z-A, Netflix and the like). But that AC is prohibitive – man, my HVAC unit went out a few years back and summers in GA are hot, but not so hot that you can’t make it without a ceiling fan and a cracked window. My Manecoons would probably beg to differ, but not too much. One is lazing in the sun on my 2nd bedroom windowsill as we speak, the high today is about 90 degrees. This might be because I have this stunner, Midea U, 12000 BTU unit running about 800 feet away. It definitely meets my needs, not only that, it has an amazing Energy Star rating – I never pay more than a dollar a day for the unit to run for more than 12 HRS STRAIGHT.

Wow, I know this is probably hard for the company to deal with (also, if you read the recall, there are many other brands that they make and they are also on the list). I won’t be returning mine but I do plan to sign up for them to come out and service the unit – if you read the strategist like I do, you will see what types of issues the units are experiencing and it is concerning, but I think that it will be fine if you get the appropriate servicing done. Even Business Insider wrote about this recall.

Check the unit out here. Make up your own mind, at least the company is doing good by trying to fix this issue.

Serious

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I’m going to take this very seriously this time. I have some goals that I want to accomplish online.

Hey. I even bought Paint Shop Pro. Yeah, I know how to use PS, however, I thought it would be cool to take it back old school. See what this program can offer. I haven’t used this since middle school, actually.

Anyway, this blog will focus on reviews of artists (I.e. Lupe Fiasco, Pharrell Williams(heart eyes), Michael B. Jordan, and others), attempts at joining affiliate programs and trying to become an online influencer of sorts. So yeah. I hope that I can get an audience in some way. 😀

Take care, gotta make some updates and try to get this online within the next month.

xo,

Nelliel