I Literally Integrated The Small

There's A Lot Of Injustice In The World And It's What I Sing About In My Music And What I Try To Confront In My Life As An Activist.

I Didn't Grow Up With My Kenyan Family. I Grew Up In A Small, Conservative Suburb Of Chicago.

I Don't Want To Leave This Mess Around My Children To Clean Up. I Want To Swing Absolutely As Hard As I Can To Straighten Things Out Before They Get To The Age Where It Starts Hurting Them.

My Job Is To Steel The Backbone Of People On The Frontlines Of Social Justice Struggles, And To Put Wind In Sails Of Those Struggles. And People Who Are Fighting On A, On A Daily Basis, At A Grass Roots Level.

Then About 12 Years Ago It Dawned On Me That Folk Music - The Music Of Woody Guthrie And Phil Ochs, Early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - Could Be As Heavy As Anything That Comes Through A Marshall Stack. The Combination Of Three Chords And The Right Lyrical Couplet Can Be As Heavy As Anything In The Metallica Catalogue.