The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.

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.

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

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.