00:00I'm a wife.
00:01I'm a mother of five children.
00:03Nigga, if you come for my kids, it's over for you.
00:05If you come for my husband, it's over for you.
00:14This song represents a way of life.
00:17Another option for women in general.
00:20I prioritize being a wife.
00:23I prioritize being a mother.
00:24I prioritize protecting my circle.
00:27I'm in the rooms with the baddest, the Rihannas, the Beyoncés, and I have no interest in not
00:33being anything that I'm not.
00:45I think the tone I was trying to set off in the beginning of the song was saying, nigga,
00:50I am who I am, big fat.
00:51Nigga, if you got smoke, I'm here and I got what I need to handle you.
01:03I feel extremely proud and grateful for the journey that I had.
01:09My mom was a single mom of six kids, because my dad died.
01:13She muscled through.
01:15I never knew I was poor.
01:17She made life good for us, even though we didn't have a lot.
01:21Moved to Houston with $77 in my pocket and my duffel bag of clothes.
01:25I was working retail.
01:26Worked my way up.
01:28I met Toby.
01:28We built a life together, and now we're doing this thing, and I can afford the finer things
01:33in life.
01:34But at the same time, yeah, I still shop at Costco, because I got five kids, and who about
01:38to pay all that money for groceries at, uh, what's that store called, uh, Irwan?
01:43Grrr, prrr.
01:44I let it purr in a cat fight.
01:46Light-skinned, but a nigga ain't half white.
01:48You know, no shade to all the light-skins that are actually half white.
01:52I got a little bit in me, but I ain't half white.
01:54I identify as a dark-skinned girl.
02:00Come for me.
02:01Come for me.
02:01Say something.
02:02Every beat I'm on is a crash site.
02:04Seven years old when my dad died.
02:06No cat.
02:06My experience was serious.
02:07Geary around a myriad of niggas as amphibians.
02:09I had to learn to keep my circle small, nigga, period.
02:11You're always going to come in contact with people that are, uh, sneaky, like slimy,
02:17like amphibians.
02:18Like, that's the type of thing I'm saying.
02:20And you just got to learn how to navigate yourself in it.
02:22That's why I keep my circle small.
02:24The things that I have mean too much to me to give you space in my life when you on
02:29some
02:29whole stuff.
02:30Savages.
02:31Law averages.
02:32Hard to grapple with.
02:32Ravenous.
02:33Ghetto fabulists.
02:33Well established.
02:34Catalysts with baby daddies is who be the maddest win.
02:36You ain't doing bad as them.
02:37For all the women that done had a baby by a hoe, that ain't taking care of they business,
02:45and, you know, you trying to do good for you and your children, and he just mad.
02:51I've grown up with people that have experienced these things.
02:54By the grace of God, I have a husband, like, he's the father of all five of my children,
02:59but I know and I come from a place where that ain't the case.
03:04Niggas be hoes.
03:06And that's the truth about it.
03:07And they be mad when you start doing good for yourself.
03:10Hey look, big fat slim chairs that I rock with ya.
03:13Ice cold with the stick like a popsicle.
03:15Five kids.
03:15I'm fertile.
03:16If you ever touch a full shells in your back, Ninja Turtle.
03:18Ugh.
03:19I've had five beings come out of my body.
03:23And it has taught me that I'm way stronger than what I could have ever imagined.
03:30And the second thing that it taught me is to use all that strength to put
03:36shells in anybody back that tried to come from me and mine.
03:40Cowabunga, don't never succumb to a lame niggas selling you dreams.
03:43Mirror, mirror on the wall, I'm the fairest of them all.
03:46But they make a nigga out here realer than the queen.
03:48Yeah.
03:50Yeah.
03:51Mirror, mirror on the wall, I'm the fairest of them all.
03:53But they make a nigga out here realer than the queen.
03:55This reference of mirror, mirror on the wall is like,
03:57it's basically from the storybooks.
03:59But like, back in those storybooks, you didn't see a lot of black women.
04:03I can look in the mirror just like a Snow White, Beauty and the Beast, or whoever,
04:08and look at that reflection and say, yeah, I'm the fairest.
04:11And say something.
04:13I didn't have that representation when I was little.
04:16So I want my two daughters to know, yeah, your mommy can look in the mirror and say
04:22she's beautiful and so can you.
04:37Ain't no care for your seed with it, use a hoe.
04:47If you bring life into this world and discard it willingly, I feel like you a hoe for that.
04:55That child did not ask you, mommy, daddy, can I please come to this world?
05:01Can you make me?
05:02Nobody asked for that.
05:03So for you to create that life and turn your back on them willingly, you a hoe.
05:08How do you feel?
05:10The sample in the song is actually Paul Bates singing from the actual film,
05:16Coming to America.
05:17And we used it.
05:19We reached out to Paul.
05:20He's amazing.
05:21And we just went for it because it was so fitting.
05:24I thought it was a way to reintroduce that part of the movie to people.
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