I Knew Life Began Where

I Originally Wanted To Embrace The Imagery And Forthrightness Of Rap Music. There Are Some Interesting, Dynamic Voices In Rap. But I Find Most Of It Irresponsible In Its Overt Violence And Commercialization Of Anger. As Artists, We Believe We Can Will Action Through Language. If That's The Case, We Have To Take Responsibility For What We Say.

I Excavate History. I Look At Lives Buried Under Too Much Silence. Periods Of Time, Like Slavery, Have To Be Revisited, Reimagined, So We Can Move Through Them.

Poets Are Seen As The Caretakers Of Language, So Working With Words No Matter What The Form Is What We Do.

I Think Of Language As Our First Music.

We Have To Embrace The Good Over The Bad. That Has To Be One's Personal Project.