Writing in journalism teaches you to be very comfortable taking criticism, being edited, and rewriting.

Writing in journalism teaches you to be very comfortable taking criticism, being edited, and rewriting.

There's a lot of movies about self absorbed white men and I just figured it's about time to make a movie about self absorbed black men.

As opposed to coming up with something fantastic and trying to sell it to a studio, now all you have to do is get people to believe what you believe.

I'm a hip-hop head, I grew up with it. So I've always loved the music.