Lupe Fiasco Scraps 'Roy' As Final Album, Says 'Skulls' Will Be Last Album

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Back in January, Chicago rapper Lupe Fiasco hinted at retirement and said it would happen this year. The "Tetsuo & Youth" rapper took to Twitter to reveal his plans, tweeting, "'Roy' will be my last album. LUPend."

At the time, the rapper revealed his plans to release three albums in 2016: "Drogas," "Skulls" and Roy." But now, the rapper has scrapped "Roy" and said "Skulls" will be his final album.

UPDATE:

Still 3 albums this year. However "Roy" will NOT be one of them. The new titles are:

DROGAS
DROGAS light*
SKULLS

Thank you! _

— Lupe Fiasco (@LupeFiasco) April 14, 2016

No. SKULLS will be my last album. There will be no more albums after the 2016 release of SKULLS. https://t.co/f1XGi1UnVx — Lupe Fiasco (@LupeFiasco) April 14, 2016

#DROGAS  :The Story Of An Album "INTRODUCTIONS" pic.twitter.com/wl2ydHcykx — Lupe Fiasco (@LupeFiasco) April 13, 2016

Back in 2008, the rapper told HipHopDX he was "96 percent" ready to retire.

"It was 96% about a week ago," he said in January 2008. "I just get tired you know? I get tired. It's a tiring pace that I keep. You see that [show I just did]? I gotta do that again tomorrow. With this [hoarse] voice I gotta find a way to do it again. Then get on a bus for 16 hours, get up and do it all over again for the next two weeks."

Then, in 2012 after the release of "Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor II," he tweeted, "my heart is broken and I see no comfort further along this path only more pain. I cannot participate any longer in this.

Lupe isn't the first rapper to talk about retirement, but if he does actually end up releasing three albums in one year, it's not hard to imagine that he wouldn't put out another album for quite some time.