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A lot of rappers don't have to go through what I had to go through as a singer. I was always in a bubble that they put me in, but I was always punching out. It was a tough line to walk.

When I came out rapping on my record, a lot of people said, Oh, you just want to be like Puff.

I started by producing, and the rapping came second to that, because I wanted to fill out the beat.

I was making crappy beats since I was, like, 17 or 18, using Florida rappers, where I'm from. Then I started DJ'ing because I just wanted to have a new job.

In high school I was making beats for my friends and for myself and rapping over them.

I used to do the beat box. A friend of mine, he was the rapper and after, we'd be doing a block party or something or a house party, and he's gettin' all the attention and I'd end up with a handful of spit, you know, from doing the beats.

It took me a long time to stumble upon a sound, and I figured out I wanted to kinda sing rapper's lyrics.

Fifteen is around the time when my parents broke up, and all I was listening to was 2Pac.

I never pictured myself as just a rapper; I always wanted to act and do whatever else I could do. I always felt like I could do a lot of different things.