I've Never Wanted To Be

The Objectification Of Females Is Not A Good Thing! Not Every Rapper Does This, But When The Lyrics Focus Solely On The Strip Club, 'poppin' Bottles' And How Many Girls They Can 'tap,' It Distorts What Kids Are Learning. I Think If There Was More Of A Female Presence In Hip Hop We Could Break Up The Monotony. It's All About Balance.

I've Hosted The Soul Train Awards, The American Music Awards... And I Had My Own Talk Show. So If I Can't Host By Now, What The Hell Can I Do?

It's Great To Be Able To Employ People Who Other People Wouldn't Consider Viable Employees.

My Mother And I Definitely Got To A Point Where We Had To Have A Real Conversation And Talk Woman To Woman, Or Daughter To Mother, Friend To Friend - Just Off The Record, Clear The Air And Communicate. I Didn't Want To Drive My Mama Crazy, But At The Same Time, I Had To Do, I Had To Learn, I Had To Grow And She Understood That. She Knows Me Better Than Anyone Else On The Planet So I Tried To Think About That.

Sometimes You Do Have To Bank On Yourself. You Do Have To Believe In Your Ideas Enough To Really Get Out There And Fight For It Despite What People Think Of Some Young Kids From The Hood.