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That's the thing with Dru Hill. We've always tried to be good musicians and not be pigeonholed into one type of music.

I had one foot in the hood, one foot in the middle class.

I can walk in the 'hood with my jewelry on. Everybody can't say they can do that.

Me and Nokio have fought a lot of times.

I decided to develop my own clothing line after spending a great deal of time and expense having my wardrobe custom-made and then noticing that people were taking notice and following my lead.

Basically, we just stay on our knees, keep praying and stay humble.

Actually, there was a lot of tension, a lot of friction going on while we were together with Island.

We always believe that God would never put us in a situation that we can't handle.

One of the most important things I did was to create my own sound.

R.I.P Freddie Gray hopefully your death will not go in vain.

Seems like the chips are stacked against us in every inner city in America, especially Baltimore.

Most of my dance moves have kung fu in them.

I've had international success so whenever you may not have seen me in America, I may have been in Dubai doing something. Technically I never really stopped doing music. I just did it in different places.

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.

We came out of high school into the music industry. And doing the best you can to break as an artist is a full time night and day kind of job so you gotta grow up really fast.

My mother and father were middle-class, and my grandmother lived in the ghetto, so I used to spend my summers at her house.

I was that guy that, when the police would come, I would continue to wild out. I had no self-control.

I wanted to be different. So, Nokio got me to dye my hair, and put earrings in my head. I had never thought of such things before, but it gave me a look.

A smash is a song that pretty much everybody likes.

I'm like a miniature version of the Rock.

Man, I hate a mess.

The Dragon is fully confident in anything he can do, fully believes that he's the best entertainer out there.

I design all my own clothes with a guy named Jonathan Logan. He works with everyone from Marilyn Manson to Usher.

I know that several times before, I've bought football uniforms for my old high school.

I was doing the best I could to feed my family, bring the money back to Baltimore.

I was multiplatinum before I put out my first solo album.

At the end of the day, the core of what I want is to make good music. But I think you can get to a level where the business interferes with the music.

I was doing the best I could to be a visionary. There were things I had done that people looked at sideways. Like, who is this black kid with blonde hair?

I like what Childish Gambino is doing. That boy never ceases to amaze me.

The facts are, when anybody says anything about me selling out, you don't see me in mainstream because I didn't sell out. I'm one of the ones that went to the top of the mountain, got the jewels and brought it back to the hood.

My videos, the ones I produced and co-directed and came up with a treatment from scratch - those are my babies.

I had written the hook for 'How Many Licks' for Lil Kim.

A lot of R&B artists have gotten away from being artists and are just chasing after the next hot producer and it all starts to sound the same.

All of my break-out songs I wrote.

That's why I try to stay away from the big-name producers, so I can prove that it's not about the producer, it's about the artist.

In America, there are some artists who are more of an image than music; if your star status goes down there, you're finished.

A year can feel like a week.

Each year goes by so fast when you're working all the time.

You know, I'm from Baltimore; nobody has anything. When somebody had talent, I was hiring my uncle, my cousin, you know? Getting people that I knew to run the studio.

The new artists with gimmicks have the most problems staying out here.

Our music speaks for itself.

You always know a smash because it just makes you grin from ear to ear.

The people just love a smash. Like 'Livin' La Vida Loca' - that was a smash.

Being a member of my group Dru Hill, we're basically known for soul things.

That's our goal, for everybody to know, love and respect Dru Hill.

What happened was, we were in the middle of shooting the 'Wild Wild West' video, and Woody decided that he wanted to do his solo project.

I want to show that I'm not a gimmick. I'm a very accomplished musician.

I love Will, man. Every chance I get, I thank him. 'Wild Wild West' changed my life.

Because of the way I dress and because I do my own hair, people think I must be gay. I don't mind because I have gay fans. I just keep it general.

I do believe that children are the future, and we are doing the best that we can to figure out outlets for inner-city youth to express themselves, instead of having to survive.