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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.

Feel One Political Positions Sometimes Time Will

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I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to recognize that in my music would give people a sense of sainthood that I don't necessarily have or even want to have.

I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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've always kind of tried to do something that was a little different than just simple 'I love you, baby'-type songs.

It's a crazy experience for me to be in a Foo Fighters video.

Getting to have a higher purpose other than just being successful is very necessary for me.

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