Somali - Musician | February 1, 1978 -
The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.
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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.
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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'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.
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The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.
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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.
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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'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.
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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.
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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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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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From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.
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