Lupe Fiasco’s recent converastion with MTV about wanting to quit the music business seemed pretty sincere.

“I don’t want to say I’m 100 percent sure, like, ‘Yeah, this is it.’ But 85 percent,” Lupe said. “That 15 percent is the X factor. That could be bills. Like, ‘Lupe, you got to pay the bills.’ ‘Oh, man, I got to put out another album.’”

Lupe blames the wear and tear, and constant grind of the business as a large part of his feelings of wanting to hang it up.

“There’s all types and parts of the music business,” he said. “There’s the studio, record-store music business, and then there’s the performing music business. I love the performing, I could perform forever. I’ll be on stage until I’m 90 doing ‘Kick, Push’ and all that stuff if I can. But it’s the whole process of it that wears you down. I actually got sick right before the Grammys. Never got a chance to go to the Grammys. I was running so hard doing music, and then when I got to the pivotal moment where you get the accolades for it, I found myself in the hospital and the doctor telling me I can’t even go. I had a long conversation with the doctor, and he doesn’t know me from Adam. He just came in and said, ‘This is your life. This is how hard you’re going. What happens when there’s nothing there, and you drop down again?’”

“When I came in, I was like, ‘Yeah, I want to be a rapper, and I want to make three albums,’” Lupe added. “But we’ll see. It’s amazing. I’m going to go away with a bang. Ahh, so good. I don’t want to give too much away, because it’s later. We’re still just into The Cool project and still got more stuff to come out of this, but I am thinking on it. I’m already building it out, starting now, because it’s massive. … I’m treating it like I’m filming ‘Lord of the Rings.’ … They had to film [that trilogy] over four to five years. It’s going to take me about two years to put [my last album] together right. I’m 85 percent sure that my next album, LUPN, will be the end-all.”