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I was called such names as a kid. Being the smallest boy in the class with a name like Caroll. I remember going home and saying to my mom, 'What were you thinking?'

My first nephew, he couldn't say Auntie Nicole, so he called me Coco. So ever since then, everyone's called me 'Coco.'

The fact that I was black and desirous to do my work, the other kids would call me a coconut, as if I were somehow attempting to be white. The bullying was real: I'd get punched, spat at, terrible things.

I think my parents were high when they named me.

When I was little, my dad used to call me 'Bandarella,' because I was a mess - a Bandar is a monkey in Hindi. I was not a girly-girl and would always break something and would be running around and didn't really fit in.

My nickname used to be Moses - still is Moses - for a long time, and people just call me Mo for short.

I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture.

None of my friends call me L.C. That was just a high school nickname, and nobody refers to me like that anymore.