Rapper Lupe Fiasco finds stark similarities to Tekken 7\u2019s upcoming fighter Team Spooky YouTube \/ Bandai NamcoAmerican rapper Wasalu \u2018Lupe Fiasco\u2019 Muhammad Jaco found some commonalities between himself and newly announced Tekken 7 fighter \u2018Leroy Smith,\u2019 and the developers agree. The dust kicked up by Evo 2019 has settled and while the winner\u2019s took home hardware for their efforts, the community received exciting news in the form of upcoming combatants who will be added to the Tekken roster. While Zafina drew a ton of intrigue from fans who\u2019ve been dying to see her appearance in Tekken 7, Lupe Fiasco\u2019s eyes were drawn to Leroy Smith who was a surprise reveal at the end of Bandai Namco Entertainment\u2019s trailer. 600In an August 5 tweet, Lupe Fiasco posted a side by side picture of a screengrab from the Evo trailer along with him in martial arts attire saying: \u201cSo basically I\u2019m a Tekken character. Hahaha\u201d The two photos posted shows Leroy Smith with his white dreadlocks as well as epic sunglasses looking clean in his martial arts outfit, while the same could be said about Lupe Fiasco who is seen with black hair and an orange training suit. The comparison drew tons of attention from FGC fans who were starting to see the similarities as well, while some industry heads started to chime in too. 600The official Bandai Namco US Twitter account responded to Lupe\u2019s discovery with a light-hearted and fitting remarks, saying: \u201cReady to hand out some L\u2019s in the ring?\u201d Even Tekken\u2019s Game Director\/Chief Producer Katsuhiro Harada gave recognition to Lupe\u2019s discovery saying \u201cI agree\u201d in response to the artist\u2019s claim of \u201cbasically\u201d being a Tekken fighter. Lupe Fiasco is a notable figure in the FGC, having gone up against legendary player Diego Umehara during a Mad Catz V Cup exhibition game in 2016 and winning in a surprise fashion. That year, Lupe Fiasco even added his talents to Evo 2016\u2019s Street Fighter V hype intro by giving an incredible performance with original bars tailored specifically for the world\u2019s biggest fighting game tournament. Lupe Fiasco is a true FGC supporter and with the release of Leroy Smith soon it looks like the rapper will have an intriguing fighter to possibly main in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rapper Lupe Fiasco finds stark similarities to Tekken 7\u2019s upcoming fighter Team Spooky YouTube \/ Bandai NamcoAmerican rapper Wasalu \u2018Lupe Fiasco\u2019 Muhammad Jaco found some commonalities between himself and newly announced Tekken 7 fighter \u2018Leroy Smith,\u2019 and the developers agree. The dust kicked up by Evo 2019 has settled and while the winner\u2019s took home […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}