73 Quotes by Jidenna

Not unlike our country's history, my personal history was founded upon an unfortunate history of racial conflict between black and white.

My style is not specific to the antebellum South, but it's heavily inspired by the Jim Crow era.

I wanted to remind myself and others of the old Jim Crow, so that we can remind ourselves that we're still living in the new Jim Crow. I feel it's important to dress in the fashion of the times.

Like most people, I had several awakenings.

When I originally came to the U.S., my mother came with a couple hundred dollars to her name. I didn't know we were struggling because she hid that from me. But it was definitely a struggle to get through life and get through school.

The one thing that I learned in college, actually, was that you may reach tremendous highs and tremendous lows.

I thought I had everything going for me. I wasn't listening to nobody. And my dad was like, 'Uh-uh, you can't make money from music. You have to be a doctor, a lawyer, engineer. Something that's going to do something for this world. Music doesn't do anything.' And I had to fight that, his passion, and fight the society that I was from.

I was raised with a father who really believed in the bridge between all Africans around the world.

One day, my mum bought me this music production software for my computer, and I started making beats... I realised it was more like production than a video game, but it was a video game when I was playing it. That's how I got into music production.