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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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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.

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

K'naan

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

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

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

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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.

K'naan

The only way I see the world now is through coming out of and growing up and living in Somalia. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all – it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras.

K'naan

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.

K'naan

It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.

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