| Issue One | Invincible 8/8 | |||
And I think that that is definitely something that is inseparable from the music itself. Through music obviously you can reach many people. But to me it is worthless and superficial if you are not impacting people to do more than just be listeners, but actually engage them and incite people to get involved themselves and actually make something happen in whatever way they can. I see that happening with music while it is being made, you need nothing but a mike, but people will make music out of nothing. So you don`t need money, you need people to be resourceful, same with the community work.
For me music making is much easier when I am with people. Like with this friend Sisamo from London, who is a DJ and she just got into production as well. When we are together the ideas just go bang-bang-bang. I believe in creative fields between certain people, I believe in constellation.It brings out something in you.It brings out a different side in you and that again is the social aspect of music making.It gets me to meet people that I would never have met.It gets you to travel the world.Exactly, and I always wanted to come here. |
Tomorrow I am going to Vienna to perform and I'll get to see my grandmothers old house. It is mind-blowing to me that I get to do that through music. But once again, in Palestine and as you said in Brazil, people use the music to emulate some of the most internalized things that we get fed through media and mass consumption. And ultimately Hip Hop can also be a tool of resistance to that. Music in general, not just Hip Hop and art in general. That is something you don't need money for. You just need people to come together and think outside the box. In Detroit I see that happen a lot. The city-center there is really a prime example of system failure.
The system has failed completely. Any time they try to solve it, it is a band-aid solution, with no long-term vision, with no self-sustainable thinking. When we start to think how we can build something that is self-sustainable, that is as holistic as possible and brings together all these elements that are usually neglected. When we try not to depend too much on having other people solve our problems, than everything is possible. And obviously with music you can express things that would normally seem illogical.
Thank you so much.Thank you. * (Interview by Stef the Cat) |
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