It was like a blessing. They said it wasn't going to fall anymore.

This is kind of hard work. It's too tough for some of the locals. But we make money doing this. We can make more than $100 a day.

I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.

I fell in love with funk music through my father - Funkadelic - as well as soul and classical early on.

I grew up in Los Angeles when the racial tensions between blacks and Mexicans were very high. Gang violence was very prevalent.

I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life.