Hip-hop

Saul Williams refuses labels but not in the typical, I-can’t-be-categorized fluffy way. Really, he understands that he fits a different category each day he develops as an artist and a person. Once an icon of the avant-garde, Williams now releases hip-hop albums, appears in movies and on television shows and generally relates to a broader group of people.On the eve of a new album, Saul Williams reflects on the weight of image, black girls, white girls and girls in between.