The biggest enemy to art is people who think yesterday was more valuable than tomorrow.

So my parents are from the India side of the job.

I originally was going to keep my parents happy, get an NBA.

I figure an NBA's path to employability.

And at the same time, I discovered spoken with poetry

when I realized that it was a powerful tool.

That just felt like the most liberating thing ever,

and I wanted it. I wanted that freedom.

The first song I ever put out was called Voice for the Voiceless, and it was telling stories that other people weren't able to tell for whatever reasons.

And I was working with a bunch of different people in music, and one producer came up to me and said I can get us a deal.

What happened was this deal turned out to be fraudulent.

It didn't exist.

It took me a year of denial to figure that out.

Now I was just burning money out of my bank account, living off

credit cards in line of credit, because in my head at any moment the check from

this deal was coming, not realizing that it wasn't coming.

That just kind of made me just be like, what am I going to do now?

Kind of ramped up and I said it's humble the poet tell death.

So either you're going to die in three months

or you're going to do this forever.

But you will die humble the poet.

You will do nothing else for the rest of your life.

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