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- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hip-hop has always been speaking about the way your brain is manipulated by stress and struggle because hip-hop is borne from struggle.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the most prolific painters died broke and weren't appreciated in their time. I'm trying to remember who exactly I was thinking of - like Rembrandt, van Gogh or Gauguin. Some of those guys, they got whole floors of museums to themselves but weren't really appreciated in their time at all.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thinking about the artists I've loved through the years, my favorites are the ones who've made music with cultural, societal and political significance.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Clash is pretty much my favorite band, and their songs like 'Rock the Casbah' are political dance tracks.
- Blocks
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from a two-parent household and my father is a PhD from west Africa, but at the same time I grew up five blocks from where Obama lived and five blocks from the projects.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The disparity between the haves and have-nots was always blatantly obvious to me, and it's that exact gap that drove me to start writing and pick up a pen. I wanted to explain and understand the world around me because it was easy to see it was corrupted.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think I'm angry and they're right. There's a lot to be angry about. But I'm also empathetic and ambitious and hopeful and happy at times.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chicago, I feel, is a microcosm for the segregated, violent environment that is America. I try to not only speak about these things in music, but also try to address these things in real life tangibly with action.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I collaborated with so many people from Chicago - so many Black people, young Black women organizations like BYP100 and Assata's Daughters. Just being out there, I saw what a community mobilizing can accomplish in terms of freedom and how music and my words in my music can play a significant part in that.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
They say depression is just anger turned inward. Sometimes I turn it outwards, sometimes I turn it inward, but I know it's about self-worth.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised by a woman and I'm the middle child of two sisters who are young Black women.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was from upstate New York; she's of Irish and German descent. My father was from Ghana.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think first of all my purpose is to be me. I didn't come here to specifically be a role model or anything.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel that my purpose is to shed light on some of the darker sides of our world, and to lend a hand and a voice to people struggling.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020