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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 used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.

I'm from Chicago, I live in Chicago and I wanted very much for the music in Chicago to succeed.

You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.

I feel like I'm doing something in Atlanta that nobody ever did as far as rap. If it happens to end up on the top 40 or the pop charts, it doesn't mean I meant to go pop. It's just where the music took me. It started at the bottom, and it rises.

I grew up in Chicago, so hip-hop has always been a part of my life.

New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I'm basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach... and I love rap.

Coming out of the Northwest and that environment to shoot hip-hop videos, it's a little atypical of a place to be, you know.

You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don't know if I want to be that guy.

I can rap in a London accent, make weird faces, wear spandex, wigs, and black lipstick. I can be more creative than the average male rapper.