Lupe shares brief history of CRS
Lupe Fiasco has recently opened up on Child Rebel Soldier (CRS) – the group he formed along with Kanye West and Pharrell, which is well-known for putting out only a handful of shattering songs in the late 2000s.
Speaking on Sway in the Morning on October 4, Lupe spoke about their 2007 first single “Us Placers” and how he tried to revive the name of the group last summer. The rapper noted that he was on cordial terms with both Ye and Skateboard P but understood the fans’ frustration on how little material the group produced.
“There [was] a lot of fan momentum around it as a movement” Lupe explained. “We always talked about [the group, but] it kind of fell to the wayside… And then again, n-ggas get rich and crazy and shit goes left.
“That whole time, it’s incubating with people like Tyler[, the Creator],” he added.
“One of the talks was like, ‘Yo, we old n-ggas and rich and doing other shit,’” Lupe went on. “‘Why don’t we just get the dudes who would be us now, and just give them CRS and let them do it? What if CRS was the hip-hop Exile?’”
