My mentors were very good.
— Jamila Woods
There is a lot of history buried in Chicago that I still have yet to discover.
I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music.
There is so much talent in Milwaukee, and such diversity.
I read 'Song of Solomon' by Toni Morrison in college, and it just blew my mind.
I have a band called M&O. We were working on our first album in 2011 or 2012. We were looking for people to collaborate with, and I met Chance through a Young Chicago Authors poetry slam.
When I started writing poetry, it was always in very hip-hop influenced spaces: Someone would teach a Nas song side-by-side with a Gwendolyn Brooks poem, and we'd talk about the connections between those things.
