Lupe Fiasco’s name has been tossed about lately, what with the recent Twitter tirade former producer Prolyfic made (to which Lupe responded) and also, the online petition made from the fans demanding Atlantic Records to release Lupe Fiasco’s third album ‘L.A.S.E.R.S’ which has been in limbo for over a year and a half now.

Video above shows a short clip of the interview that Lupe Fiasco responded to in recent known topics. Recently Lupe Fiasco released his own version of Rick Ross’ B.M.F (in Lupe’s version it is called ‘Building Minds Faster’) and whilst he confirmed that it is not leading up to an official Mixtape anytime soon (one thing that’s kinda lame), he is touched at how much fans are determined to get the album released.

“I love to see progression,” he said yesterday via phone. “I love it. I love to see this petition. It brought me to tears a couple of times like, ‘these n—as really f— with me. All these kids and these fans f— with me and it’s some positive sh–. Go to Wearenotlosers.com and see what Lasers really is. … That’s what they’re petitioning for. Listen to ‘I’m Beamin,’ the song. It reaffirms what we’re doing.”

As mentioned earlier, former friend and producer Prolyfic took to Twitter in insulting the Chi-Town emcees status in Hip Hop, portrayed as stubborn and as someone who’s constantly throwing tantrums. Whilst he called it tough love, he may have taken it with further insults saying L.A.S.E.R.S has no hits to which Atlantic can promote, hence why it is not released. Furthermore starts to slightly diss the fans…Lupe responded on Twitter but also gave his view of the situation with Prolyfic during the interview with Mixtape Daily.

Going on to say: “My old producer Pro, he was signed at the company maybe four or five years ago. We used to be cool. But Pro knows why we ain’t cool no more. I’m not him, the type to air business or make false accusations just for the sake of getting my name out there. He knows why I don’t really f— with him. He knows why Chill don’t f— with him. He knows why the company don’t f— with him, why half of the city don’t really f— with him.”

Regards to his situation with the record label that is Atlantic; the reason for the lack of singles (he was supposedly only meant to do three albums as it was only to change his mind it seems) is that he says Atlantic presented him with choices of singles they wanted him to record and put on his album. One of them turned out to be B.O.B’s “Nothing on You.” Fiasco, however, turned down using those records because, he says, it wouldn’t by fiscally sound. He was told he wouldn’t have any ownership of or publishing rights to the records.

“I don’t think the label cares about an album,” Lupe assessed. “I don’t think n—as care. People just want their number-one record. They don’t care about the rest of the album. I was talking to an engineer the other day and he said, ‘These n—as don’t even care about mixing an album no more.’ They just want the first three songs. Three singles. They get them, one, two, three, they don’t care what’s on the rest of the album. I know this for sure. I’ve seen it. You can’t blame them because of the attention span of the game and the attention span of music, how fast things are going. You only got them one, two, three shots. I’m not no fool. I’m looking at it like ‘Yeah, you’re right.’

Hmm sounds familiar in just about…EVERYWHERE…he goes further saying: “You just want them, one, two, three. Can I get two? Can I get three. I’m talking about equity in the songs. I wrote ‘Superstar.’ The hook, all that sh–. That whole song is mine. I’m not doing it outta fame. I don’t mind having people come in and support. That’s how my career started. With all that said, I own some of ‘Superstar.’ These records, I’m not finnin to own sh– on those records [Atlantic chose as singles]. N—a, that’s not success. That’s stupidity. … I have no problem accepting help, but you ain’t finnin to take advantage of me. I got nine brothers and sisters. They gotta eat. … F— what n—as gotta say on a message board. F— what Pro is talking about. I got a whole family, a whole team, a whole crew of n—as I f— with in the streets that’s eating off what Lupe Fiasco is doing. I gotta do what’s best. If I’m not getting no publishing check, that means I can’t pay for my man’s lawyer. So n—a, f— you.”

As it looked a little extreme between Lupe Fiasco and Atlantic Records six months back, things now seem a little calmer…for now anyways.

“It’s not necessarily a standoff. Record executives at the company signed the petition. That’s no bullsh–. It’s something that’s systematic. At the end of the day, everything I’m talking don’t mean sh– until they feel like they gonna move with what they gonna move with. They could put Lupe Fiasco on the shelf forever. At the end of the day, it’s not about me going to war or having a standoff. It’s about having an agreement that’s mutually beneficial, and I think we’ve done that. It’s at the point that everybody is kinda comfortable, but in the midst of everybody getting right, here comes this petition. Then in the midst of this petition, you get this punk n—a Pro coming out the box talking all this crazy sh–. It puts more negativity into the situation. But the people at Atlantic love that. I’m not saying they love the negativity, I’m talking about the petition. For them to see 16,000 people say, ‘This is what we want and what we want now. We’re sick of all this dumb bullsh–.’ They love to see fans that actually care.”

Do they? Really? I mean if that’s the case they could have seen the fact fans like me wanted to see this on its original promised date of December 2009. Atlantic Records are indeed playing unfair with Lupe Fiasco, and though Prolyfic did make some good points, he also thought stupid when comparing Lupe Fiasco to the likes of Lil Wayne, Drake, and Gucci Mane.

All in all, it is the man’s life, its his music, his career, and if anything I would want to release songs on my terms also, with my own meanings and my own rights to give what Hip Hop really should be about, rather than sellout like a majority of people.

If you want to sign the petition going around, click here, currently with 17,838 signatures. Also checkout our other links of Prolyfic’s and Lupe’s full twitter feed wars between one another.

As always, let us know what you think.