Lupe Fiasco Honored By USA Network

Everyone's favorite backpack rapper, Lupe Fiasco--Sorry Kanye, you should have chilled on the Auto-tune--was named the 2009 winner for the first annual USA Network Character Approved Award in the category of music. The Chicago native was honored along with other culturally relevant individuals such as Jimmy Wales(the founder of Wikipedia) and Shepard Fairey(The artist behind those Obey posters, and The Obama Poster, you know the one.)

Lupe was chosen because he "changing the cultural landscape of his field through innovation, creativity and ingenuity." Plus he raps about giant robots and zombies, which is almost as dope as rapping about old Wu-Tang and Shaolin martial arts movies. Each honoree was given $10,000 to donate to a charity of their choice. Lupe chose, Action Against Hunger.

For the full length video and info on the other honorees click here