What’s next for Kid ‘N Play as a duo?
I want to acknowledge the fans who liked that stuff and then gently bring them into what I’m doing now. There will be more Kid ‘N Play stuff in 2010. We’d like to do another film. We’ve done enough House Party films and I think the Kid ‘N Play brand is strong enough. It implies House Party, you know, some kind of fun, rollicking thing. Next year is actually the 20th anniversary of the first House Party so we think that will be a cool way to come back they way we want to. In your comedy act, you mention your dad didn’t dig the hairstyle. Was it your own idea or that of a stylist? That was my style. In my neighborhood in Queens, New York, people were getting what are known as fades — tight on the side and higher on top so the side kind of fades in. I kind of kept letting the top grow and kept cutting the sides. I was getting a reaction from the beginning when it was only a few inches tall because nobody was doing that back then. My gut was telling me to just keep letting it grow. We did
