This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I do do standup comedy because a lot of people don't know that's where I started.

My father...made us shop at Goodwill. I found things to wear and got Best Dressed (in the yearbook) two years in a row. I had lemons, so I made lemonade.

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

I was 16 years old, driving to LA, and sleeping in my car, just trying to make it happen.

Real men change diapers!

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

Saturday morning, you knew what was cool by what was on 'Soul Train.'