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

It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.

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

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.