Mustafa's "Leaving Toronto" Video Is a Tribute to His Home City

The Exclaim! cover star's new album 'Dunya' is out now

recent interview. "I do believe that I am the result of the city. I'm the result of its warmth, and of its growing pains. All those cranes in the sky of Toronto? I identify with them. I identify with the misidentification of our city and its cultures. But the truth is, I just never had the luxury of being there without paranoia, of being there without violence, of being there without a burial. And unfortunately, the Toronto that swallowed so much of my joy hasn't returned it to me."

Read Exclaim!'s review of Dunya, out now via Arts & Crafts. Last week, Mustafa announced a Toronto performance behind the album.

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