To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door. ↗
I thought people cared about music in a deep way, so I was writing to that spirit in people and in myself. It was me, thinking I knew what was up. Youth, who else can change the world? ↗
It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend. ↗