Wale did a lot for the DC/DMV area, but there is a lot more budding talent that is coming out of Washington, DC like myself.

There is a high amount of drug activity in DC. The “trap” is slang for a place where drugs are made and sold.

Magicians are also known for being entrapped in complex mechanisms in which they break out.

Ma dukes has bars!

She always told me to keep my head up, even if other look down on you. “You’re a handsome prince,” she would say.

I’m going to better her life because she made me and is the reason why I’m alive and in college living my life.

Without Momma Yancy, there wouldn’t be Telly.

This is probably one of the deepest, most heartfelt songs I’ve ever written.

Her poems were always positive and centered around her faith, which also shaped me as a man growing up. It really helped me find a moral center.

It’s not one day that I DON’T think of my mother’s poetry.

My mom used to play a lot of music from the soul singer Sade Adu. Beautiful music. This line is a play on one of her songs called “Sweetest Taboo.”

And Sade is GORGEOUS, yo!