Bibliography

I started as a writer, since I was little kid. I've been telling stories and hip-hop has been an extension of me telling stories so it's kind of like me putting it in a more traditional form as far as a book.

Lupe Fiasco to New Zealand's 3 News

The bibliography of American rapper Lupe Fiasco includes open letters, in-progress works, and projects he has contributed to. An excerpt from his unfinished novel, Reflections of a Window Washer, was published by London-based publishing company BLAG in 2007. This followed by the short story "This City Is a Robot," written for the Chicago Sun-Times in 2012. He has also dabbled in poetry, where he published one in memory of Gil Scott-Heron, and contributed to the book Guns in the Hands of Artists (2016). On social media, he has uploaded a 2013 Twitter novel entitled Teriyaki Joe: Neo-Harlem Detective, self-described as "Afro-Futurist," and the 2015 Instagram episode-styled Silver Poles that became discontinued after three posts. The screenplay, Wave, was created to accompany his seventh studio album, Drogas Wave, which details the mythology of the Long-Chains, a group of slaves who escape imprisonment and live underwater with the mission to prevent slavery.

Open letters

• "Supreme" (2015)
• "#BeastMode A Tale of Two Quarans" (2015)
• "The Haunting" (2015)
• "The Police" (2015)
• "Money Is My Mind" (2015)
• "50 Shades of Black & Forgetting How to Ride a Bike" (2015)
• "The Challenges of Being a Soldier" (2017)

Poetry

• "R.I.P. Gil Scott-Heron" (2011)

Short stories

• "Work in Progress" (2011)
• "This City Is a Robot" (for Chicago Sun-Times) (2012)

Novels

• Reflections of a Window Washer (2007)
• Teriyaki Joe: Neo-Harlem Detective (2013)

Podcasts

• Silver Poles (2015)
• Building the Last (2018)

Publications

• Wired
  • "Hip Hop 2073: A Vision of the Future, 50 Years from Now" (with C. Brandon Ogbunu) (2023)
  • "Technology Is Transforming Rap Beef" (with C. Brandon Ogbunu) (2024)

Screenplays

• Wave (TBA)

Collaborative

• Guns in the Hands of Artists (2016)