If you were writing to Black people, you wouldn’t have to edit so much.
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a late night thought about my music, my audience and my writing.
I want to say shit the way I understand shit. I want to say shit once— and the shit be understood the first time I say it. I’m tired of speaking to “everyone” through my music. Even though I’m not speaking to everyone all the time, when I am, I’m constantly backspacing, editing, deleting, over-explaining, diluting, faking—fucking torturing myself trying to say shit in a way non-Black folks can understand. I am exhausted. So I’ve decided: I want to talk only to the people who can understand me the first time. An epiphany hit me in the gut after a cup of ramen: create what you wish…
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