How has becoming a mother affected your art? Has it altered your perception of the world around you?

Absolutely. Even if I don't go into it deep inside myself and think about it, I think it's just a natural thing for you to change the way you look at things and for things to affect you different ways now. Especially as the kids are getting older, like my oldest is 11 now, so he's kinda moving to that teenage world now, so it's a whole different program. So it absolutely does, more so then ever now, come into my work, my thought process, everything.

How does Ma'At Mama differ from your previous albums?

For one the work on this album is much more in the more in the moment than my previous works, because it is really a spontaneous thing. Most of the stuff on this album was written at the studio right before I recorded because I had a lot going on in my personal life at that time as well, so everything was happening simultaneously. So, I kinda had to get in where I fit in. Plus, this album is much more organic and much more mature. Less electronic music, more live.

What do you hope people take away from this album?

That is always a hard question to answer because I never feel quite comfortable with putting out there what I hope or would want people to feel. I guess the most important thing is people understand is what I do is poetry, no matter how I do it. That’s what is most important, whether I combine it with music, or I sing it, or I try to bust a little rhyme here and there, it’s all about the poetry to me. It’s all about the honesty and the rawness of how you approach things. That’s always a journey to challenge yourself and take what you do to the next level in the sense that you off center yourself, you are trying to go wherever you need to go.

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