Shaka Senghor

It's the only light that we have is those moments when you do a show with a prison and you see people just let loose and the tension goes down and there's no night fights and they're just like,

oh my God, to see that, you know?

And so I think it's a duality there, but all things in their own time, you know?

And I think playing the music has been, I mean, I'm so intrigued by your art and so appreciative that I get a chance to bear witness to it and your journey of how you got to it.

So I think that's the power.

Yeah.

You know, the question you asked about, you know, anticipating getting out and the purpose part, right?

Yes.

So I, you know, I started writing in solitary confinement and initially I was writing to save my own life.

I call it my write or die moment.

And I was journaling and I realized I had never accomplished anything.

And so.

Never finished anything.

Never finished anything.

Right.

And so the idea was like, just finish one thing.

And if you finish one thing, you can turn your life around.

That just happened to be a book.

And then I was like, okay, well, now what do I want to do with this book, right?

What do I want to do with my writing?