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The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.

Forgotten Forgotten People Me People Somalia Voice World

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To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.

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.

I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.

I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even artists, want personal recognition. We want to be recognized for something, for what we did. I'd rather my song be recognized for what it's doing and that's important. It's not so important how many people know me.

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

Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.

I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.

My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached.

The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the effect that it can have; nobody is prepared for that.

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