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It's important to immerse myself in one thing at a time to do it well, but I could never do one thing only. I will always be a poet and a singer, because I'm interested in bending genres and pushing boundaries of what is considered a poem, what is considered a song.

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I like bringing my poet brain and sensibility to lyrics I write.

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I always loved singing because I grew up in a very musical family. My mom wasn't able to do music professionally because her parents wanted her to get a 'real job,' but she played guitar.

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Me and my three younger siblings, we sang together in grandma's church, and I was in the Chicago Children's Choir in high school, but I didn't think I had the voice to be a singer professionally.

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My entrance to music was singing gospel in church, and to hear that gospel language in a hip-hop song was cool.

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For me, church was about not only religion but about community. A woman in my grandmother's church helped pay for my SAT classes when I was in high school and drove me there every week.

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When it's a rapper's album or a singer's album, there's a tendency to want a text-based or theme-based narrative.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: Unknown

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