I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been something I was saying for a long time.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've probably wanted to be a rapper since I was a teenager. I was an actor and comedian and stuff, but I always wanted to rap, it was another outlet.
I've been rapping since I was 13.
Rap was my drug.
I was rapping as a hobby. It was something I did for my friends and just played around on ideas and stuff like that.
When I was 13 years old, I was dressing in a rap style. And then I changed schools, and the rap style became old-fashioned, so I changed it completely.
It took me a long time to stumble upon a sound, and I figured out I wanted to kinda sing rapper's lyrics.
Once your career becomes about something other than the music, then that's what it is. I'll never make that mistake.
I didn't ever want to make a rap album. I considered it too limiting. Now that's exactly what I've gone and done.
By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.
I just knew what I wanted to be since the third grade. And I always did well in school. I was the type to get good grades; I never really got below Cs or nothing like that. I always kept it A-B. But there's no school for rap.