My accomplishment has helped millions of kids see that they can come from a poor family and go somewhere, make something out of themselves. Ive been doing it for seven years professionally.

When I lose touch with the audience and the reality of what life really is, I'll be Vanilla Ice or something.

I come from a hut, from a hut I went to the projects, from the projects I went to a mansion so you out there you have ABSOLUTLY NO EXCUSE!

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

I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.

It will be true work that the kids can follow, as opposed to a facade of you doin' something, and you're doin' nothing.

My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies.