Lupe Fiasco New Docuseries Celebrates Rapper’s Martial Arts Training

If home is where the heart is, then the heart of Grammy Award-winning hip-hop artist Lupe Fiasco is in Asia. More specifically, Japan, but after starring in his new docuseries “Beat N’ Path,” which launched globally on July 1, his heart may be in China. The 37-year-old rapper, who released his seventh studio album, “Drogas Wave,” in 2018, stars as himself in an anthropological role in the Hong Kong-based Studio SV-produced series, exploring Chinese culture through food, music and martial arts. As Fiasco travels through Shanghai, Beijing, Dengfeng and a Shaolin temple inside Dengfeng, he is introduced to the Fa Wang Buddhist temple, cities where 30,000 students learn kung fu, and a Muslim mosque where Wushu practitioners train and stop to pray for the call to prayer. “It would’ve been super strange, but we did that when we were kids,” he said. “You’ll see me say ‘this feels super familiar,’ because it was stuff that I was doing when I was a kid and a teenager in martial arts class,” said Fiasco. “I’m talking to my shifu, and I couldn’t understand a word that he was saying, but when we started doing the forms, we didn’t need to. We would be practicing for

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