For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the sustained breath of our fathers we live

I was fed by the music I listened to as a kid. Hip-hop fed me psychologically, spiritually, politically. I learned from that music.

I think everything has its place. So if the ideas or the fluidity isn't coming in writing, maybe it's related to ingestions.

American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems.

Vulnerability is power.

I have a very family-like connection to hip-hop, which is why it frustrates me so much.

she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away