Last week the biggest thing in hip-hop scandals was the Rhymefest/Lupe Fiasco beef. (It’s a slow time for rap gossip, I guess.) It started with SOHH interviewing Lupe about the field of potential presidential candidates, even though he doesn’t “believe in voting on that level,” whatever that means, but came out pro-Hillary, saying that “Obama doesn’t really impress me like that,” and also that President Barry would bomb Iran. Rhymefest took Lupe to task on his MySpace blog for his bad facts and intellectual laziness. Pretty blah stuff at this point. Local hip-hop blog Fake Shore Drive did a little recap of it, then Byron Crawford picked up the story and things started getting more interesting. A source claiming to be from Chicago emailed Crawford an explanation why Lupe feels so strongly about Iran: that Lupe is affiliated with the Muslim-leaning gang the Black P. Stones, and furthermore every famous black person in Chicago is also backed by one of several major gangs, and one of those gangs is some sort of homosexual cabal. There are several things in the guy’s theory that make it seem kinda suspect–the figures “99.95 of the city is black operated and 99.95% of the black community is gang affiliated in some way,” the theory that the gays have some sort of shadowy organized crime thing going on–and the whole thing might just be a ball of Internet crazy. But
