Lupe Fiasco: America is very much the world leader in not getting it together

"There's definitely the theoretical America and then America in reality. Back then there was the expectation that the theoretical America 'knew better'" - American rapper Lupe Fiasco told Radio 1 Newsbeat, and continued - "but what you've started to see is that America's not like that. America is very much the world leader in not getting it together - just with Covid-19 for example". Lupe says countries "don't want to be like America, where the police are killing people for nothing", and he predicts that in coming decades America will "fall behind the times in a very real way as other countries start to outpace, out-develop, or just ignore America to a certain extent".