I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.
A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.
I'm from the church, my dad was a pastor's kid.
I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today
Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music.
It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful