"Life is very complicated, from my understanding. So I think, in certain capacities, when you listen to Lupe Fiasco music, you get a reflection of the complexity of the situations that we find ourselves in" - Lupe Fiasco says in Vulture interview about his newest EP 'House', made almost accidentally, during the lockdown. Talking about his lyrics and fans understanding them he says "I just don’t put 'Fuck the police', and that’s it. It’s like, 'Why are we fucking the police? Is it even cool to say ‘Fuck the police’? What does that do with the police? What are we going to do if we don’t have police?'. Let’s break it down and get into the nuts and bolts. I think that is where you find the solutions, if you’re willing to do the work".

"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".

Powerful new Lupe Fiasco song 'Shoes' was written from the perspective of the sneakers Ahmaud Arbery was wearing when he was murdered; Richard Barone's cover of Willie Nile’s 'Streets of New York' is just a warm love song to the city; Mastodon-At the Drive-in-QOTSA supergroup Gone Is Gone released psych-spacey rawk 'Everything Is Wonderfall', Shamir released 'I Wonder' from his self-titled album, out later this year.