Lupe Fiasco & MIT Team Up for ‘A.I. Powered’ FM Radio Station

Lupe Fiasco is teaming up with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to produce an FM radio station. There’s a catch, though: The project will be fully powered by artificial intelligence.

The Chicago rapper-turned-professor made the announcement on Instagram last week with a lengthy caption, which read in part: “Imagine if there was a 24-hour fully AI powered radio station trained on all the intricacies of my rapping abilities and was carefully refined to produce the highest quality possible Lupe Fiasco songs. Now imagine it only played a generated song once and never again endlessly…now imagine that radio station was only available for certain periods of time and only in certain locations and you needed an actual FM radio to hear the songs. Imagine I put a team together at MIT and imagine we actually built it…

“ENDLESS LUP coming soon,” he concluded the caption.

Lupe has been working with the prestigious school since 2022 when MIT tapped him to teach a course on Rap Theory and Practice for their MLK Visiting Professors and Scholars Program for the 2022-23 school year. And that’s not the only higher-learning establishment he’s been involved with: Fiasco was named a Saybrook Associate Fellow at Yale in 2023 and recently announced that he will be joining the Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute faculty as a visiting professor to teach a rap course for their new Bachelor of Music in Hip Hop program.

Fiasco also announced a new multimedia venture in the same IG post about his collab with MIT. “RhymenShop is my multi-modal/multimedia creative musical sandbox,” he wrote. “RhymenShop’s ‘DCS’ or ‘Data Compression Services’ program is small batch, physical musical releases or ‘Flavors’ available only to holders of RhymenShop DCS USB Card’s or ‘Bowls’.”

He mentioned that the rollout for RhymenShop technically began during his Samurai Tour this past fall and that more details are to come.