Biography

I think people expect something genuine and inspired. I wanted to do something a little more ambitious and to push myself in every respect. But my albums are pretty similar. They boil down to my journey.

I tried to have an alias when I first started: 'Catfish'. It only worked for like a month. I was always considering myself 'Shad' when I was rapping.

My parents are on the other side of the world in Rwanda. They retired and moved back there with my little brother. To me part of the fun of hip-hop has always been this game of explaining who you are and being proud of who you are. As the world gets bigger .. I think maybe, on a subconscious level, it makes me to reach out to those places to get a clearer sense of who I am.