It's A Great, Great Experience To Finally

Got In The Studio At Sixteen, [and] That's When I Felt Like I Wanted To Make This A Career. I Had A Passion For It.

It's The Beauty In Her, But When The Makeup Occur, I Don't See It, All I See Is A Blur

My Grandma Always Said, "where There's A Will, There's A Way." I Think It's Just Naturally In Our Dna To Be Able To Survive. We Was Always Taught That: To Survive. When You Talking About Slavery, It's To Survive.

Every Time I Write These Words They Become A Taboo, Making Sure My Punctuation Curve, Every Letter Here's True, Living My Life In The Margin, And That Metaphor Was Proof.

The More People I Meet, The More Cultures I Start To Embrace, The More People I Open Myself Up To - It's A Growing Process I'm Excited About. But It's Also A Challenge For Me, To Be At This Level And Still Be Able To Connect With Somebody Who's Living That Everyday Life. At First It Was Something I Struggled With, Because Everything Was Moving So Fast. I Didn't Know How To Digest It. The Best Thing I Did Was Go Back To The City Of Compton, To Touch The People Who I Grew Up With And Tell Them The Stories Of The People I Met Around The World.