I remember listening to Talib Kweli’s fifth solo album called Prisoner of Conscious in 2013 and how one phrase became a mantra. As the album built up to the 5th track — High Life — and the sonic energy burst out of my speakers with intoxicating rhythms, groovy baselines, and spurts of saxophone and vocal samples, I was immediately […]

The rebellion and civil unrest that we are seeing today is not new. The civil rights and social movements that happened globally in the sixties were spurred by the growing inequalities and injustice in the world. The oppressive consciousness that existed then still remains today. Finding purpose lies at the intersection of what we want […]

(This is a snippet from Chapter 1 of my book — Press Play) I travel between the Bay Area and Lagos, and I see this grow- ing disparity between the two regions. The Bay Area is the home to the most innovative companies that have changed the way we interact with the world. The influx of […]

One of Music’s greatest powers is to raise our collective consciousness. Music can bring us together while collectively inspiring the purpose needed to take action to improve the world that we live in. Raising the consciousness of the collective starts with the individual. We, the humans… As humans, we are mere animals. The genes encoded […]

Music is a powerful tool that we, as humans, can all use to facilitate tremendous positiove change in our lives and communities. Is it safe to say that everyone appreciates some sort of music? Regardless of where you’re from, how old you are, or your profession, Music — just like air — is something we […]

This is a compilation of a few stories from my Chapter 10 of my book — PRESS PLAY. The country with the highest income inequality in the world is South Africa. Using the Gini index, which is a simple measure of the distribution of income across income percentiles in a population — a higher Gini index […]

This world is filled with pain and suffering. The blatant violence against the marginalized — people of color, women, and people with little to no means — has become a new form of malignant normality. We are in an era where you can’t avoid these atrocities. These actions are done and shared through videos around the […]