Ajak Kwai - Arrows ft. Allysha Joy (Official Audio)

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“I am angry, but I am fighting my anger. Anger doesn’t go anywhere. I am upset about the things that people say to me, to my people, to minority groups. We get picked on all the time, and that is very upsetting, the words they use.

Actually I am not a very angry person. People ask me all the time, why am I angry? But I am not angry, it’s not worth it.

What I am trying to say is that you can’t dump your problems on others. There are so many good people in the world. Some people are bad, and they make me angry. But I fight my anger, because there are so many good people in the world. I don’t let the odd few, the people who have made life so difficult, I don’t let them dump on the good people of the world.

Overall, I know Australian people are good people. There are just a few that make our lives hell. I don’t want to focus on them, instead, I am focusing on the good people in the world.

Harmony goes a lot further than conflict.

This is what we need from music - to break down differences between us. To collaborate, to work together. Music is universal. If you preach to people, they won’t listen, but if you just play music, people will follow."

- Ajak Kwai, Melbourne, Australia. March 2021

Ajak Kwai's 'Red Sands' EP is out Friday, November 12 via Music in Exile / Above Board (UK/EU) / Polyvinyl (USA/CAN).

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