There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it.

[Make a sitcom] was really the idea of Executive Producer Joe Roth who owned the property over at Revolution Studios and said he was thinking about taking it to TV. And after he said that he already had [writer/director] Ali Leroi on board, and that he was going after Terry Crews, to me it was a no-brainer. I said, "Let's put this together!"

I still want to put together bigger and better programs to work with the community. I still think I could do better on that end.

I been all around the world and I haven't found a city that I'd rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles.

Usually people who attack the rap are people who aren't even fans.

You become a writer on a television show, and you see yourself doing bigger and better things, you don't wait till they tell you, "Here's the way to do bigger and better things," you start writing. You start writing that material that you might be doing off to the side. Nobody's going to be paying you for that, but it could turn into something big.

I do what I do. You like it, great. You don't, go listen to somebody else. I'm stickin' with the people who stuck with me.