>> i background danced for crystal water, technotronic, ginuwine, missy elliott, just to name a few. i used to boogie back in the day. but you know, the character of omar thrusted me into the limelight and you know, i was-- i had a very low self-esteem growing up, you know, high need to be accepted. corny kid, you know, in the projects. and so all of a sudden, omar got, you know, i'm like, you know, getting the respect, you know, from people that would have probably took my lunch money as a kid. so it kind of-- >> stephen: did you start to act like omar? did you want to be omar in any way? >> i couldn't be omar. know, i wore that, you know, you got seven out of ten people calling you omar with all this, like, admiration. >> stephen: like people on the street would call you omar? >> yeah, you know, the lines got blurred for me. the lines of reality got blurred. >> stephen: i know the feeling, people call me stephen colbert all the time. that was a character i played. >> all the time. i want to be stephen colbert. >> stephen: i kind of want to be omar. i'd like to have those balls. wel