There are so many ways to be and to be black at the same time, but we're finally seeing that full range expressed much more widely than before.

You can call me namastunde or surfatunde. Either works.

College is a safe space where it can be hard to truly fail. The institution is rooting for you because your failure makes them look bad, too. New York City has no such mandate. I've had to hone and sharpen and refine my work here at a pace which may not have happened in other cities.

I don't know that I'm post-anything. I'd like to think maybe I'm post-bullshit.

As far as hip-hop is concerned, I'm no expert and rarely think consciously about how I "represent" hip-hop.

New York has been the best gift, in that the city pushes me to so many next levels.

By the time I got to Harvard, I feel like I knew who I was, and my job there was to throw as much against the wall as possible, to see what would stick.