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K'naan Quotes

K'naan

Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

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

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Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.

K'naan

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.

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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.

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The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.

K'naan

From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.

K'naan

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

K'naan

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

K'naan

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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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.

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