STRONG MESSAGE
That's because his early music career coincided with an interest in weight training. "Weight training is a lot simpler than people think it is,†reasons the 43-year-old. "All you have to do is cut all the extreme junk out of your diet. Being in good shape is a very easy thing to do. People just don't want to put forth the effort in doing it.â€
Though he admits to effortlessly exercising way before he made his name as The Furious Five's frontman ("I used to do a lot of calisthenics, but after a while, you can't grow from calisthenics. It's a natural progression to graduate to the weights.â€), it was when he wasn't in the limelight that he started hitting the gym. "I was always putting on size,†he begins. "But I wasn't in a position, as far as the music business, for people to actually see me progressively put on weight. For me being old, being I never stopped working out, my muscle is starting to mature now so I'm thickening out. The only memory people have of me is from ‘The Message' video.â€