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K'naan Quotes

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

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You want to reach people, but you also want to reach them in the most authentic way. You now have a mass market and an audience that's listening, but they're in love with a song that means absolutely nothing to you.

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I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.

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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.

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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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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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