The thing which America allows you to be is it's the country of opportunities.

Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of fitted suits, elegant cuts; I think it's cool to mash up a lot of different looks.

I want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy.

Mama, you know you raised me with no father figure. I wanna take this time to thank you, even though I'm doing life.

No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me is hip-hop. But the hip-hop community I came up in isn't a loyal community.

I hear them playing Elvis, they on they way to Graceland. But they don't scare me, I'm in the trunk.

My parents were Christian.