CNN Stroumboulopoulos June 10, 2013 08:29:00
>> when did it occur to you that this was something that you could do? >> really, i was about 14, 15 years old. lived with my dad down in oklahoma. that's when i started taking more serious and going to the studio all the time while a lot of my friends were out. i would hoop and skate and stuff like that, but i really, really into my music. i kind of shut everything out and put myself in the studio and then, you know, when i turned about 15 or 16, that's when i got my independence deal, and i never really looked at it as an option from there, you know. it was more or less like everything is ju...