Where It All Began (Intro) - Stevie Stone

Everybody got a story to tell

Mine starts in the middle of the map

Long before me

You see Imma start from the beginning

Mom’s is from a little town called Malta Bend

Right outside Kansas City

Historically, it’s a segregated town

She was raised in the church

Sung and played piano for the choir

Worked 3 jobs to provide for me and my sisters

She never allowed us to realise how much we didn’t have, or to realise how much

we struggle

Shit.

At times I thought we was the richest motherfuckers in the world

You see, you can’t miss what you don’t have

In all actuality, we was struggling trying to make it just like everybody else

But without struggle there’s no progress

Wise words from Frederick Douglass

You see the environment moulds you, and it shapes you

I was motivated by what I see growing up

A woman that provided by any means necessary

Ambition.

I learned that the art is the easiest way to travel the world without

leaving home

Start plotting how to get to the moon

Shit, if I miss I still end up in the stars

Your foundation is set on many generations before you

They say I got my swag and my charm from my Daddy

My temper from my Nanny, and my hustle from my Momma

If you’re gon' do something, might as well do it big

That’s how I live my life

Go hard or go home

Run it