If you really look at my lyrics, nobody's exempt. Nobody's exempt from observation, criticism or what I think is correction.

No matter what part of the country you come from, you can always come together to make groundbreaking hip-hop.

I'm the most successful person in my generation of family members, and that sucks.

I identify with the bottom of the pyramid, because, outside of having money, I am at the bottom of the pyramid.

Comedies in Hollywood is usually the path of least resistance when it comes to being black in Hollywood and putting movies together. They would rather make us laugh than cry, in some respect.

As far as producing, once we started shooting, I soon realized where the critical decisions about the movies were really being made, and it wasn't on the set. They were being made in the production meetings. That's where producing a movie happens. And that's where I wanted to be. I didn't just want to be a piece, a pawn being played. I wanted to take part in the creative process, and that's how I sort of got introduced to the idea.

I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.