You have to be a really talented writer if you're trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it live after the event. I don't have the focus to do that, really. — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
I was born in St. Louis and lived in Pittsburgh for a bit, before my family moved to Nigeria, where they're from. We lived there for three or four years and came back to the States when I was about ten. I realised that I'd gone from place to place not fitting in. The thing that helped me fit in… — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share
I feel like now if you're going to start a band you have to have an Instagram full of yourself looking a certain way,… — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and… — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
Hearing that [David] Bowie passed was like you don't really believe it. It's as if the sky shifted a little bit, to remind you… — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you're doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it.… — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
The cynicism doesn't come across in the final; it can be taken as a very sincere plea for someone to not go away. — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
I've had terrible, terrible, terrible shows where I just thought, "That was off-key" or I forgot lines or I thought I looked like an… — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
A lot of people have reunion things, but I think bands are supposed to break up. — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
I know that being upset without having an avenue to fix anything is a real hard place to be in for too long. But… — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there's nothing you can do to save it - it's a horrible… — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
I was living in a loft with Dave Sitek - this loft full of people just working on their stuff. Some were painting, some… — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
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