Flau'jae Remember When Lyrics

Marni

I like to tell 'em that my story had started 'fore I was born
I came in a family, it already was torn
My momma 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 formed
We rocking Louis and Milano, remember it was Ralph Lauren
We used to drive Toyotas, now everything is so foreign
My momma made me strong and in everything I endured
Never thought it would stop raining, our blessings, they keep on pouring
Like am I 'posed to be here? Am I 'posed to prosper?
Told them I don't just want a Grammy, I want a Oscar
I looked at my grandmamma pansy and said, "I gotcha."
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 linguine with the lobster
The price of the fame, I know exactly what it cost you
Voice is like an instrument, I'm talking to the opera
I got you

I don't wanna go back to my old ways
DHK reminiscing all about the old days, low wage
Now they got their hand out on they own plate
Everything I did was on my own, I built my own stage
I went on America's Got Talent, took my own lane
I was on the rap game when Jermaine Dupri got more game
I had built it up and then got a feature with Lil Wayne
Ain't gonna lie, my soul chain
Kinda brought 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 over your momma Said I was lashing out, now I know it was just trauma
But as I'm getting older, I like to think that I'm calmer
And I don't even trip 'cause I know it's coming with karma
Now I count a couple commas, cop a place in the Bahamas
Just to vacay in the summer
I remember we was under
In my lifetime, seen a Black President Obama
It opened up my eyes 'cause everything we do iconic
And it's just so ironic and just comical, I find it in this climate
Love my blackness, walk outside and I'm ebonics
I'm just honest

To my grandma, it hurt 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 just seeing my reflection
It remind you of the time when it was fine
I know you trying, but it's mine and I know
This take a different kind of grind, I know
I got a different type of drive, I show

The heartbreak my heart take is outrageous
I came to count pape and rock faces
My love in my heart is contagious
I worked to be us and I made it
But I got more to go, more to show, more to grow, more to cope
I did this for my little city
It wasn't nobody there with me
I never needed your pity
And it ain't nothing you can give me

The heartbreak my heart take is outrageous
I came to count pape and rock faces
My love in my heart is contagious
I worked to be us and I made it
912, 10 Jordan
Down by the booth, down by the water
God be the truth, I'm the don daughter
I've been the truth, I'm the don daughter