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.

It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.

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.

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.

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.