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The thing about hip-hop is, like, that the instruments were taken out of schools. But - you might have taken the instruments out of schools, but we'll take the records and sing over them!

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I never had a problem moving between jazz and hip-hop.

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When I was younger, I'd be walking down the street and suddenly panic because I had a cool idea and no way of getting it down - I'd have to sing it all the way home. Now I can hum it into my phone.

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Every day we're here is an opportunity to do what we can to make the world right, to help someone close or far from us, to not get so hung up on what we can't do, and remember what we can.

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My dad was very much a Pan-Africanist and instilled in me and my siblings a want for that knowledge.

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Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.

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Jazz is a part of me.

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I think people psych themselves out before they listen to jazz a lot, thinking that they have to, like, put on a suit or something. That's not what it is.

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We learned at a young age, with our dad, that even if you weren't doing something, you had to look like you were, or some hard labor was coming your way. That's the reason I started practicing music - when I was practicing, Pops left me alone.

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Music doesn't come out of you, it comes through you. You are almost like a messenger.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: February 16th, 1981

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