One of the main things that I think we don’t always talk about and forming that body of Christ is following the route that’s set up. I think one of them is the union of marriage, like coming together as a family and being like, “This is what we do. This is what we believe. This is how we going to rock.” I think us getting married, in a lot of ways, not necessarily on a global scale, but definitely at our day of at the big day at the wedding reception, a lot of people came to me and said, “I know this sounds weird, but that sermon that the pastor gave and that little music selection that you did and seeing you guys together made me feel like God is real,” and that’s a heavy thing and a beautiful thing, and I think that’s a part of forming a body of Christ, is doing all these tasks that even though they seem hard or impossible at times, coming together for the greater good and showing these good deeds so that they could be attributed to the father.

I used to be thirsty for it. I used to be going all in on it. Now, you know what I’m saying? I got to what I needed. I just want y'all to know, putting all my cards on the tables, it did take celibacy, and maybe that’s not something that we’re used to hearing, but it’s just the truth of it.

That was it for almost four years, and then now we have another baby coming after years of trying. I think the difference is that you can notice from her being not pregnant to being pregnant again is that ring on her finger. When I was a kid, they always used to say, “Pressure makes diamonds.” So when you’re going through it and you’re having a hard time, they say, “You’re going through this because it’s going to make you better. Pressure makes diamonds.” In my situation, diamonds put that pressure, and now we got a baby on the way.

So just a breakdown for the ‘90s kids, a lot of nostalgia here. Y'all don’t need this, but just for everybody else that wasn’t. Penny Proud was the main character of The Proud Family. You know what I’m saying? A black kids cartoon that came on Disney, probably the first black family comedy animated show I got to see when I was a kid and possibly ever, no, not ever, but we’re not going to talk about what happened in the past.

I don’t be making all my own lines, just for reference, my co-writer is the Bible. I can’t take credit for all of it, but Psalm 1:27-4 says like, “Arrows in the hands of a warrior are children born in one’s youth,” and we spend a lot of time in the church, especially the black church, where we sometimes shame people for bearing children unmarried, and especially for people bearing children that are super young or considered too young, and they forget sometimes that that happened to a lot of people. You know what I mean? Biblically, and it just happens in our culture all the time. The Bible explains that to be a blessing. I remember when I found out I was going to be a father, I was 22-years-old. I thought that I had all these things ahead of me, which I did, and I didn’t even know, but I thought it was all coming to an end because I was so scared. But, the Bible says, “The more kids that you have at the younger age that you are, the more ammunition you have.” It says like, “Arrows in the hands of a warrior.” That means, the more that I have, the more I can impact the world for God’s use. And so, I felt like it was important to say that, and then also say, I got a long nose with an extendo that joint. I’m trying to have 50 billion kids.

This one’s important, because this is when you get to really see. There’s only a few lines where it’s beyond me rapping to the audience anymore. It’s like, let me get off my real prayers. Let me say something right now that I could put on wax that God could hear, and he will bring the fruition. I’m saying, Lord bless my lineage as in the future mes, the future of Bennetts. Make it so that they understand your word, and make it so that they understand what their duties are, and make them have a great relationship with you. And if anything is to befall me that’s terrible, let it die with me. Let me be the skinniest that my family is ever going to be. Let me deal with all the hardship that… And God knows your heart. So, maybe I didn’t say that the best way. Some people thought that I was saying like, let me be the skinniest. I don’t know. I was trying to talk about my aesthetic or my image and shit, but I’m saying like, let me deal with the hardship, and let me get enough time with my children that I can impart on them the wisdom that my father and my mother gave to me.

I think one of the most important things to you or the main relationship that you think about is when you’re single or when you’re not liking the relationship that I’m in now. It’s like your friendships. That’s like the biggest thing, is your friends. You want to make sure your friends are good. You want to be there for your friends. You want to go out with your friends. That’s just like one of the main relationships, I guess, outside of your parents. And a lot of times, you tend to that more than you do your own family when you’re not in a husband-wife situation or whatever your situation is.

I think one of my biggest things that I’m learning to balance and focus on the most is just my real life. I have watched my performances just as much as my fans do. I enjoy interviews and listening to my songs back the same way, because once you present it and put it out in the world, that’s just what it is. It’s art. It doesn’t matter who made it, or when it came out, or whatever. It’s like you still enjoy it, but it sometimes takes away from the real life. The music that I’ve made has always accompanied in my life and described it. But also, when you get too focused on it, sometimes you don’t understand the importance of the stuff that it’s based on.

So, shout-out to 1 OAK in LA. Shout-out to Poppy in LA, too, two great clubs where I don’t have no problem with them. I love them, and keep booking me. But, you get into a repetitive lifestyle of doing the same thing, and so it becomes going to the club. It becomes kicking in with the same people. It becomes going to an after-party and all those things. At a certain point, you get tired of the repetition. It doesn’t become something that you completely, like, you say, “Oh, that shit is evil,” or you villainize it to a point where it’s like I could never be in the club again. I love going to the club. I sometimes still go to the club without my wife sometimes, because she’s pregnant, and I go with my sister-in-law or with just my friends or pop out, but you start to realize the gift in being able to go home and just fall asleep to a movie with your wife. That shit is A-1.