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

I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.

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

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

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

Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.

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