There's definitely anger, the demand of more from the world, a demand for justice. There's no other way I can perform the vocals than the way you hear them. It's not just the words, it's what is being felt.

I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.

I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

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.

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

And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all.