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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.