I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?

Stop, collaborate and listen.

It doesn't sound anything like 'Under Pressure.'

I live off a motto that says, 'yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery'. I have goals and agendas. Where ever I'll be tomorrow, that's where I'll be.

Not everyone agrees on music. Some people like rap, some like country - it's all an opinion. F the critics.

My mom raised me to be clean, so it's in my nature. I have two little girls and I'm married but we've got a nanny and a maid.

This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen.