Act Smarter Than You Are And Always

All My Friends Were Black And Mexican. I Was The Only White Kid In Our Group And Had To Work Hard To Be Accepted. Year After Year, We'd Breakdance And We All Became Close And They Labeled Me "vanilla" - Like "hey, Vanilla" And They Knew I Hated It, So Of Course They Kept Calling Me It.

When 'ice Ice Baby' Was Selling A Million Records A Day, I Bought Several Properties: A Home Next To Michael J. Fox In L.a., A Palace In Miami And A Mountain Cabin In Utah. Then, A Few Years Later, I Took A Break From Touring, Saw That My Properties Had Cobwebs, So I Sold Them, And - To My Surprise - I Made A Huge Profit!

You Can't Please Everybody, And Basically I Just Decided To Please Myself First On This Record. This Record Is More Like My Diary And I Am Expressing Myself Through My Music. And That's What It Should Be About. That's Why I Didn't Change My Name Or Anything. It's Not About The Name; It's About The Music. The Old Saying Goes That Video Killed The Radio Star And It's Very True. And Now I'm Just Letting Everything Revolve Around The Music. There Is No Image; I Am Just Being Myself.

I'm A Random Guy. I Shake A Hand And Make A Friend. I Don't Do Egotistical Things.

For Three Years Between 16 And 19 I Was The Opening-act-for-the-opening-act-for-the-opening-act, You Know? And Then I Was On Tour With Ice-t, Stetsasonic, Epmd, Sir Mix-a-lot--legends--and Went On To Sell 160 Million Records. It Still Baffles Me.