Hip-hop was a big part of my life growing up, especially West Coast gangster rap. The reason I was able to listen to it so freely was that my mom couldn't hear any of it, so we would be driving along just blaring Too $hort's horrible misogynistic stuff, and my mom would just turn to us and say, "This is great. I can feel the bass. It sounds so nice. " And we're like, "Yeah, mom. We can feel the bass, too. "
Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood.