I feel like a lot of our older communities don't really recognize that as something that's worth pursuing or chasing, but I think it's actually one of the most noble things you can chase, as someone from that culture as you're speaking and spreading that same language. I hope that art just becomes normalized in our communities more, outside of just the United States, you know? Not only holding on to our culture and traditional art that is beautiful and we've cultivated over centuries and has developed and grown, but also taking it out to the world and exploring and expressing ourselves through different mediums and forms-I hope that becomes more normalized in our communities and culture as a whole and and there's a focus put on it, because, for me at least, that's what makes India so cool-the culture, and art is part of that culture. Especially as someone living in Texas, there's not a lot of brown people even in media getting in front of the camera and singing and rapping and just being brown in America, which is normal-they're just normal people-but I don't think a lot of other people have understood hasn't been drilled into their heads yet, so because of that, marketing that and branding that is really hard. To you, it doesn't because you're brown and you know other brown people who walk around in jeans and a shirt, but a lot of other people haven't really seen that. It's hard to sell yourself as a minority personality if you don't gimmick your own culture.
The biggest one really is that it's hard to push a narrative of a minority group in a country where you're the minority, unless you really paint yourself that way-if I was spitting bars in a kurta it would probably sell more because people would think, "Yo, he can rap, but he's Indian" and that would be so funny to white people.
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