Me personally, I wouldn't put my kids on television. But to each his own.

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

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.

A lot of the girls my age were impressed by silly stuff like money and fame. I wanted to be able to have intellectual and spiritual conversations with someone who was on the same page as me.

One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the producer, writer, director, and the actor. You just gotta be out there and perform and give your all. It's such an honest form of art that it just taught me so much, and it kind of prepared me for manhood at an early age.

I'm definitely light-spirited, but I just felt like my music had to have a little more depth.

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