Writing in journalism teaches you to be very comfortable taking criticism, being edited, and rewriting.
As opposed to coming up with something fantastic and trying to sell it to a studio, now all you have to do is get people to believe what you believe.
I'm a hip-hop head, I grew up with it. So I've always loved the music.
There's a lot of movies about self absorbed white men and I just figured it's about time to make a movie about self absorbed black men.
