Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.

The person void of purpose will always have the threat of being in debt

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process.

And if you think about it, pretty much everything that made the twentieth century bearable was invented in a California garage: the Apple computer, the Boogie Board, and gangster rap.

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.

One of the problems we're facing is, in my view, that there are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies.