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

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 b….

It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never s….

I learned to fire guns at the age of nine or so, but luckily was not out killing people. We zigzagged the streets to escape those trying to kill us. ….

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 i….

It is the very survival of the streets that makes children pick up guns in Somalia, not some older, wide-eyed rebel leader. My intimate experiences d….

When I get older, I will be stronger.

Until the lion learns to speak, the tales of hunting will be weak..

The pirates are serving a purpose right now. They come from regions which have been completely ignored, and Westerners have tried to destroy these re….

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 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….

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..

There's definitely anger, the demand of more from the world, a demand for justice. There's no other way I can perform the vocals than the way you hea….

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 un….

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

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

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..

And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all..

My life owes me. Like an overdose, I'm slowly Drifting into the arms of trouble, then trouble holds me.

Mindless violence, well let me try to paint it. Here's the 5 steps in hopes to explain it: 1, It's me and my Nation against the World 2, Then me….

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