If I have a talent, it's already been exploited! I've shown everything I can do to the public.

I take my spoken-word stuff extremely seriously because I feel like that's true writing, true lyricism.

A lot of people don't know the first time I was ever on national television I was a 'Soul Train' dancer.

So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.

To be compared to Will Smith is probably one of the coolest things because that's who I came up admiring.

Even where the game is today, cats don't really focus on necessarily what it is that you're saying so when people say, "Oh, you can't rap," I play into the joke. That's why I'll challenge anybody; anybody rapping, let's go just because I know what the art form is and even when you see these battle rappers in here, they're so skillful. It's actually a skill.

We're gonna do it like George Foreman. We're gonna name all of our kids Mariah no matter if they're boys or girls. Mariah No. 1, Boy Mariah, Man Mariah, Tall Mariah. It's gonna be a house full of people named Mariah.