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

The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.

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

I learned to fire guns at the age of nine or so, but luckily was not out killing people. We zigzagged the streets to escape those trying to kill us. I guess it would have been a matter of time till I turned around with a gun myself, to go after those coming for us. But I was fortunate. The grenade incident was about an explosion which destroyed a section of my school, from a grenade that me and my cousin detonated by accident. We both lived to tell about it.

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.

The pirates are serving a purpose right now. They come from regions which have been completely ignored, and Westerners have tried to destroy these regions by their constant plundering of resources and by the illegal dumping of nuclear waste. The pirates really began in order to discourage these actions - initially. And then the business became lucrative.

Until the lion learns to speak, the tales of hunting will be weak.