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WORK IN PROGRESS

I want to be a good role model to girls coming after
But sometimes I slip up and say some shit that’s ratchet
Forgive me I’m a work in progress
Most days I’m conscious still I’m a product of my west baltimore environment
So please excuse the nigga in me
If I get out of pocket in my first class seat
If i don’t give a fuck ‘bout what you saying to me
If I’m too big for my britches then give me a sheet
I need room to grow
I’m still figuring it out
And if you say you ain’t, you lying
Hell you talking ‘bout
Balancing single parenting with music business leveraging
can get discouraging
My mind stay worrying
Every morning I just keep emerging
To try again
Consummating paper to pen
French toast scrambled eggs, hot toddy with Gin
Homeschool my baby boy to make his mind a weapon
He the coolest dude I ever known I grateful for him
He an angel how you saying that we made him in sin
Me and my baby father just couldn’t keep it together
He say I hit him in his mouth, don’t believe what he tell you
Some things are only meant for a season
I used to hate him now I tell him thank you when I see him
I was the plant, he was the seed, love and pain watered us and a man child came to be
Most things aint meant forever
May 22nd 2007 we split up
I slept in a car breastfeeding a baby for half a year
For reasons like pride and fear
I been through so much shit I’m surprised I’m still standing
So every time I see a mirror I pose damnit
It’s a celebration, every time I’m waking
Even if my angels wake me out my dreams shaking I’m saying
One love to my nephew Khalil
You’re a king, I can see why God chose you for HIS
And through your two sons forever you’ll live
These Baltimore streets ain’t deserve you kid
And if we find them muthafuckers then you know what it is
My bad, I ain’t supposed to be talking like this
but this pain don’t contain Political correctness
I let it pour out however it come, for ever son, of every mother who never gets to recover
Still trying to find new reasons to live
To keep moving forward, now with a rawness
Like the north wind that ravaged the garden freezing it over
Praying to God to one day to get over
Gwenie We gotta get over still throwing salt over shoulders and if the devil’s a boulder then God is Mount Everest and Imma die climbing up that bish, Go tell it on the mountain

Hook:
Go Tell it on the mountain
Lean not unto your own understanding
OOH, it will lead you astray but trust in the Lord it will be okay,
The mountain

The cup that is already full
Can not receive what God has to pour into
I learned that from my grandma and she never finished school
Her neck should have been bear from all the dropping of her jewels
She heard it in the whispering of the wind
Spread the news
Good things come to those who wait and pay their dues
Little Mississippi never had a pair of shoes ‘til she hit the windy city now she’s got 22
But moving up ain’t always moving right
But trust in the lord and He will give you new sight.
To see the unseen
And know the unknown
Instead of living through the tiny window of your ego
I ain’t got the answers Sway but this I know
We’re all works in progress trying to find our way home on the mountain
Hook:
Go Tell it on the mountain
Lean not unto your own understanding
OOH, it will lead you astray but trust in the Lord it will be okay,
The mountain

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from Vintage Babies (Explicit), released August 31, 2017
12. WORK IN PROGRESS 5:15
Producer: A. Smith for DJ Dummy Entertainment (ASCAP)
Lyrics: M. Youssef for Maimouna Youssef Music (ASCAP)
Lead and background vocals by M. Youssef
Flute: Elena Pinderhughes

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Maimouna Youssef aka "Mumu Fresh" is a Grammy nominated seasoned singer, emcee, songwriter and producer. She received a Grammy nomination for her contribution on the Roots hit “Don’t Feel Right” in 2007 for best rap song and has since taken off as an independent artist. This is the right place for all things fresh! Welcome to the Muvement!!! ... more

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