Mystikal

I come from an era of music when it had heart and soul.

I'm writing songs to perform, to entertain. And when I'm really trying to get inspired, I go backwards, and I just rap.

All you have to do is put me in front of the people and put the beat in front of me, and the rest is history.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

If you look at my CV, just about everything I have done has come through a publicly funded institution; it is a career entirely built on that sort of support.