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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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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