Author: Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Quotes

I'm a believer in the nap. I don't care what it is. 15 minutes. Five hours. If you know someone's going to come back and come to work.

I'm a believer in the nap. I don't care what it is. 15 minutes. Five hours. If you know someone's going to come back and come to work.

- Ali Shaheed Muhammad

If you allow yourself to be closed, especially to a younger generation, then that's death. That's instant death.

If you allow yourself to be closed, especially to a younger generation, then that's death. That's instant death.

- Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Hip-hop has had this history where the predecessor just is so harsh and not nice to the next coming generation that it creates this separation and this gap.

Hip-hop has had this history where the predecessor just is so harsh and not nice to the next coming generation that it creates this separation and this gap.

- Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Anything in this life that goes against love, we all should fight it.

Anything in this life that goes against love, we all should fight it.

- Ali Shaheed Muhammad

But I could not imagine having a child and the child not having a relationship with music that opens up their mind and their imagination and teaches them things.

But I could not imagine having a child and the child not having a relationship with music that opens up their mind and their imagination and teaches them things.

- Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Because I express myself through the music, I want to be responsible in that expression and how it carries on well after I'm here. But that's just me.

Because I express myself through the music, I want to be responsible in that expression and how it carries on well after I'm here. But that's just me.

- Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Here in America, our use of time is not harmonious with humanity's better spirit.

Here in America, our use of time is not harmonious with humanity's better spirit.

- Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Kanye West, I love you. You might not have known, but I have said in other interviews that you're my hero.

Kanye West, I love you. You might not have known, but I have said in other interviews that you're my hero.

- Ali Shaheed Muhammad

When it comes to music, something I'm passionate about, and knowing the reach and the power and how it transforms, it saves lives. Music does.

When it comes to music, something I'm passionate about, and knowing the reach and the power and how it transforms, it saves lives. Music does.

- Ali Shaheed Muhammad

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