Remember When

I like that. Tell them that my story had started before I was born.

I came in a family it was already torn, my mama couldn’t smile when she had me she had to

mourn, they killed my pop while I was in her womb,I wasn’t even foreign, we rocking Louie and

Milano remember it was Ralph Lauren, we used to drive Toyota now everything ‘s so foreign,

my mama made me strong in everything I endured, never thought it would stop raining our

blessings they keep on pouring, like am I supposed to be here am I supposed to prosper, told

them I don’t just want a Grammy I want an Oscar, I looked at my grandma Pansy and said I got

you, she said hey don’t worry about me just do what i taught you, you gonna be a star you

gonna be hotter than Sriracha, it was Ramen noodles now is linguine with the lobster, the price

of the fame I knew exactly what it cost you, voice is like an instrument I’m talking to the opera,

I got you, I don’t want to go back to my old ways, DHK reminiscing all about the old days, lil

wage, now they got the hand out, want their own plate, everything I did was on my own I build

my own stage , I went on America’s got talent, took my own lane, I was on the Rap Game with

Jermaine Dupri and got more game, I have built it up and got a feature with Lil Wayne, I ain’t

gone lie my soul changed kinda bought me more pain, imagine trying to navigate the world

without your father , imagine trying to love as a little girl it just got harder, imagine seeing a man

putting they hands all on your mama, see I was lashing out, but now I know it was just trauma,

but now I’m getting older I like to think that I am calmer, and I don’t even trip because I know

it’s coming with Karma, now I count a couple commas cop a place in the Bahamas just to

vacate in the summer, I remember when we was under, in my lifetime seen a black president

Obama, it opened up my eyes because everything we do iconic, and is just so ironic, and just

comical, I find it in this climate love my blackness walk outside in all my bonnets, I’m just

honest, and my grandma, it hurts me so bad, we ain’t got that relationship just because what

happened to my dad, and I know , that you can’t even look me in my eyes without crying, and

then seeing my reflection it reminds you of the times when it was fine I know you trying, but it’s

mine and I know, this takes a different kind of grind, and I know, I got a different type of drive

and I show…., The heartbreak my heart take is outrageous , I came to count paper and rock

faces, my love, and my heart is contagious, I work to beat odds and I made it, but I got more to

go and more to show, more to grow, more to cope , I did this for my lil city, it wasn’t nobody

there with me , I never needed your pity, It ain’t nothing you can give me, I know, The

heartbreak my heart take is outrageous , I came to count paper and rock faces, my love, and

my heart is contagious, I work to beat odds and I made it, 912 Savannah Georgia, down by the

boot, down by the water, God be the truth, I’m the Don daughter, I’ve been the truth, I’m the

Don daughter.