Jidenna : (7)

" I started singing because it was a natural evolution in hip-hop to me. Without Prince, I wouldn’t have embraced that. I wouldn’t have been able to embrace me. " - Jidenna

" I’m the guy on the corner that is slightly peculiar but fun and funky. " - Jidenna

" I was raised in Nigeria, and my mother is white, but I never saw her as white, not until I came to America. She was just my mother. She didn’t really have a color. " - Jidenna

" In Brooklyn, all the kids call me the ‘Willy Wonka of the Hood.’ " - Jidenna

" I began my studies in a sound and electrical engineering program, but I ultimately created a major called ‘Ritual Art.’ " - Jidenna

" I’ve always been dabbling in suits, but like a lot of people in the neighborhoods I grew up in, I had my snapback; I had my v-neck. I still got them in the closet. I got my J’s, my Forces; it was standard. " - Jidenna

" You love who you love. I happen to just love a lot of women. " - Jidenna