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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.

Better Feel Feel Good Good Trying

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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.

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.

I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.

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

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

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.

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.

It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.

I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.

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