I come to work on time. I focus on my job. I bust my scenes out and everything else kind of happens from there.

My main goal, starting out as a young actor, was to carry the reins that Pac left off and to reach the depths as an actor that I know he would have reached had he still been here with us.

You know, Tupac is very near and dear to my heart. He started my career as an actor.

I grew up in East Flatbush in Brooklyn which was an intense neighbourhood filled with different West Indian cultures.

My only goal is to stay focused on my craft and make sure my life is as sharp as it can be to attack any character that is given to me.

Music's been part of my entire life. It's in my DNA.

I am the epitome of the underdog. By societies standards I should have been dead a long time ago, and I was nobody's gangster, I wasn't a thug, I wasn't selling drugs on the corner - I was scared of that.