Yasiin Bey Says America Is A Tough Place To Be Creative

In an interview with Beats by Dre Yasiin Bey had this to say:

“America is a very challenging place for me," he said. "Sure, there [are] great business opportunities and familiarity and all of that. Given the social, political and economic climate, it is very difficult—unnecessarily difficult—to create to the degree of fullness. The type of robust creativity that I like to have. It is very difficult for me to produce right here.”

He also stated his home county:

"My country is called Earth," he said. "This whole thing belongs to everybody that's on it. And if there's anything that I could do with my career, it's to hopefully encourage the generations around me and after me to have that worldview."

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