Hip-hop used to be about battles, beatboxing and breakdancing. All they get exposed to now is the negative stuff.

My goal is to win the belt, whoever it's on. I'm not gonna settle for anything less.

Hip-hop used to be about battles, beatboxing and breakdancing. All they get exposed to now is the negative stuff.

One reason why I started fighting was because of my family, and with that, you gotta pay the bills, but I enjoy beating people up in the first place, you know, so it plays hand in hand. Beating up, and getting money!

I think every [fighting] style has the same core. It's all about changing and positioning, transitions.

I grew up in East St. Louis so I wanted to play baseball as a kid. Then I moved to Nebraska and became a football fan and wanted to play football. But I've always been fighting. Growing up in East St. Louis was hard. You had to fight there.

Of course I want to test myself. I enjoy fighting. But I also have six kids, and I want them to go to college. I hope that I can reach a point where I get the best of both worlds.