When I get older, I will be stronger

Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras. I got to fully experience and appreciate both the tragedy of Somalia and the beauty of it.

I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.

You have to let the world speak to you and then you speak, you know, so I'm in that moment now where I'm finding the world's voice.

When I get older, I will be stronger

It is the very survival of the streets that makes children pick up guns in Somalia, not some older, wide-eyed rebel leader. My intimate experiences during these years are something which I have shared with people through my music but am very careful about how they are addressed.