I was discovered on the Sony lot through an audition by Denzel Washington.

I loved B.I.G., but not like I liked Tupac, because he was an actor, so I related to him.

I don't think people come to television for spectacle. And I don't really have a lot of fun writing spectacle for television, I'll do that in features.

Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.

I was watching TV at age 9 or 10, and my mom said that I came from the front room and I told her that I want to act. And she said if you want to do this at 18, then you can. It was a very simple story, yet, I do not even remember the conversation that I had with my mother. Until she reminded me of the story many years later.

Sometimes my faith becomes more sensitive to how people feel, as opposed to what needs to be.

Spartan is about this elite unit of the armed forces named the Delta Force. I play a protege of Val Kilmer's character, and he kind of gives me a hard time.