Storytelling My Life
From Birth to Adulthood (Covid Times)
Queens born and raised/ Will never forget my stomping grounds, it lives on as I age/ I’m bent on still remembering those days/ More like inclined/ Elementary I was known as an artist in his prime/ That got into some fights and wore vests a lot, when I wear it it shines/ In middle school I fell in love with Hip-Hop, so to my peers I got in line/ Started rapping and having more girlfriends, man I been the guy/ Loved 50 Cent and G-Unit music, plus they persona, no more in the binds/ Parents took me out of school mad lost track of counting times/ Finally in 8th grade they took me to GH to live, reside/ Recorded with 1Blaze, met May & Proph Steve kept my eyelids in the blinds/ Left to come back to the States, no win in my mind/ First experience returning without my parents, I was beginning to find/ Ways of adjusting to Jersey, it was bound to happen, all in due time/ Newark was where I found myself living/ The remainder of my teenage years until my early twenties, felt like I went down to hell in an instant/ Right from the rip I could tell here was different/ Went to high school, graduated/ Off to college, somewhere along the line realized I couldn’t make it/ Then started working/ From one place to the next, but loved interning in Ernst & Young, it regarded IT Risk & Assuring/ Worked at UPS the longest at this point/ First preloaded, then unloaded, feeling stressed but the strongest in the joint/ Got with wifey/ Then planned to tie the knot, get married/ Bought my first plane ticket/ Ebola caused problems with travel, what a plague that made people kick it/ The disease was driving the world insane, it was wicked/ January 2015 we flew to GH, finally came with British/ The wedding took place/ What a beautiful ending, it was great/ Everyone was there/ Afterwards we were very hung, seeing what food will be prepared/ My moms, pops, bestie at the time was in attendance/ It was lit, the MCs were live and you just had to love it, it was epic/ Fast forward a year later/ My first born, a girl named Emily, congrats she was certified on mere paper/ She was as adorable as she once appeared, more greater/ Facial needed some fixing, courtesy Operation Smiles/ They did some operating purposely to get rid of this thing, so she can really smile/ Went to Apam/ Then the North, I meant to tag along/ Except I wanted to go see my dad and my mom/ It came to an end, like convicts lives that are kept in Nsawan/ That are left to get eaten up by it like sharwama/ Opened a foot modeling studio/ Took clips and made sales, they be posing as they look modest & beautiful/ Then came Omega, became a bother/ Walked and it was far away, I say it was farther/ Felt financially abandoned by my father/ Was a security guard as a result at Tema harbor/ In the trenches/ Inspected vehicles near the entrance/ And later worker IDs, I also guarded a private residence/ Rented by CHEC, the company extending the port/ But the main office first, sitting in front, some people tried entering with force/ Stressing ya boy/ Luckily no deading any scuffle or tussle/ Guys stole things at the residence, got Will and Pioga in trouble/ They got locked up, it was really supposed to be subtle / Had to eventually take over there/ Guarded both the main office and residence/ Omega bosses remained thoughtless, it was evident/ Skip ahead a lil, I decided to quit Omega/ The pay wasn’t quite cutting it, precisely I dipped for better/ Returned to the U.S. and got Amazon/ Almost returned to UPS, applied even to Security Secuitas, but I had to opt for Amazon/ Best thing that ever happened/ Rest is history and I never looked back since/ Based in Ship Dock/ It was just perfect for BigSteff, yeah that was his spot/ Where I learned a great deal and did a lot/ Filed for wifey/ She came in 2019, it put a smile on my face, I was happy/ Emily followed a year later right into the pandemic/ Went and got her, returned the next day, it was epic/ A Covid-19 take over was where we were headed/ It became deadly and everyone was staying at home/ Social distancing, masking up, and praying it would be gone/ Virtual learning, Zoom video calling, stimulus checks and getting vaxed/ Covid testing, tracking cases and trying not to get in mishaps/ Sanitizing hands, lockdowns and working remote, a blessing for some, facts/
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