Clearly, everybody knows I can rap; I can freestyle all day.

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

Clearly, everybody knows I can rap; I can freestyle all day.

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

Imagine if you've got the diva of all divas. If we've got to be somewhere at five or six o'clock, I tell her its time to go at noon so she gets those five hours to do what she needs to do. But were both kids at heart. She is the funniest person ever and she has a great sense of humor. We connect at a spiritual level.

It's blasphemous, don't get distracted by these lottery tickets and statues. It's just fake gold and plastic... We crying for votes but how many of us is on the board. Better yet, when's the last time you showed up and supported the NAACP Awards?

I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.