African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.

I don't want to waste anyone's time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift.

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.

I have no confidence issues with the impact or the quality of the music. No one in hip-hop, before this point and to this point, with all due respect, has done this.

We can be beautiful and feel beautiful about who we are everyday.

I ain't no perfect man I'm tryna do the best that I can with what it is I have.