K. Dot was featured in the Globe today as he and the city get ready for his upcoming concert on Monday, June 20. Below is an excerpt, and you can read the whole story here.

“It’s an edge about me that I always got to keep in the background because I know it can get crazy,’’ he said, when asked about his calm approach. “And I think just growing up in my community and the [expletive] I’ve seen and situations I’ve been in, I always try to bring positive light, because one thing I’ve learned is that once you’re around negativity, that’s all it’s going to attract. I was around negativity my whole life, so that was all I was getting. The only thing that separated me from that was the day I got in the studio.’’

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