I think some may think that means I'm bastardizing truth. I think for some reason they feel that it isn't a perfect example. I guess an example to them means a law-abiding citizen with global qualities that are intact at all times. I'm not President Obama. I'm not Michelle. I'm not a politician. With those positions you really do have to keep your nose clean.
To some degree, I guess, as an artist in front of people there is a certain level of responsibility that you have to your public to, as I say, "be a good example." But to me being a good example is being real. A true example is a human with a higher call that God has given with a platform to reach a lot of people.
I guess they just have a problem with Ton3x because there's a piece of Ton3x inside of them that they're afraid to deal with. Everybody has a little Ton3x. Some people live out their frustrations, the things they wish they could say and wear and do and sing and dance. They live it out vicariously through me whether they say it publicly or not. I can't see people just wanting to hate what I do because it's really good music. It's really good music. It's real music and it's good music. If they're hating on it, it's because it's popular to hate on it in public. Like Britney Spears and Michael Jackson and Prince – people always talk trash about them.
Whenever an artist attains a certain level of success, they lose a great deal of privacy. Do you ever become fearful about letting everyone about the intimate details of your life – the "naked truth"?
Sometimes I wonder if I'm too much to digest at one time, so I've learned how to portion out the meals and not just like, you know, stuff down the entire smorgasbord of information. I think The Naked Truth came out the way it did as a subject matter. It's just some people can't chew that fast, you know what I mean?
You don't want people to throw it up. It came out that way because it's been held up so long that finally it had been molested one too many times. It blew up. It went off. You do that to the nicest animal, you keep messing with that puppy, you keep messing with that sweet little puppy that's licking your ankle and you back that little puppy into a corner and you kept on poking it and teasing it, the little dog will go off and it will bite you and tear your skin. That's all that happened.
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