COMMON: Oh yeah, some new shifts. Actually the new album is called Invincible Summer and it will be out in the later part of June. I guess the new shift is just the music sounds newer. It’s really developing. I’m really happy about it. It feels good. It’s not really heavy and it’s Pharrell from The Neptunes and The Neptunes are producing a lot of it. And also a producer named Mr. DJ who did a lot of work for OutKast, did Bombs Over Baghdad and Ms. Jackson. Anyway, these cats are really giving me some new, fresh sounds and I’m taking it somewhere vocally that I haven’t been before. I’m enthused. I’m really excited. I think it’ll be a great summer album, like for people to feel good. I want to make people smile and enjoy life. As much as I want to make them think, it’s important that they smile too. My agent told me about the script and I read the script and then he said I could go in on an audition. So I remember I went to audition at David Ayer’s office. I remember the lights went out that day. It was like the lights…some type of blackout. But anyway, I went in there and I just gave it my all. We got a good callback, say, ‘Hey, you got the part.’ So it was a great experience. I love the process of auditioning because it’s such a humbling experience. Yeah.
I just wanted to express myself in a new way artistically, and it had to be something that I was passionate about. I took acting courses, like some classes, and I was like so enthused about it. I felt like, ‘Man, I can’t wait to go to the next acting class.’ I was discovering a lot of things about myself or I am discovering a lot of things through the process of acting. And I’ve since come to find out you discover a lot of things about other people as you take on these characters. You know, because you learn more about people. And also, you just learn more information. Like if you’re taking on a character of being a pastor, you’re going to have to learn about being in the pulpit, learn more about the Bible. You take on these things and you research it, and I love to learn so I think that helped me as far as being passionate about acting too.