Interviewer: Outside of hip-hop culture, what else contributes to your music?
Sareem Poems: Funk, soul, jazz, R&B, neo-soul, gospel, Christian, alternative music, poetry, people, books, I mean, my family and friends, the list can go on. I mean, I aim to write about what I see, what I experience, where I live, my environment, um, and I hope that people find something that they can relate to or relate to all of it. At the end of the day, man, I just want people to be able to get something out of what I'm creating...