Goin' Up (feat. ZO1, Jada Imani, Basi, Amen Auset & Iky)

Growin Up (ShoNuff)

Featuring: Jada Imani, Amen, Basi

Produced By Zoran Kollock

(Intro) - Ikera Davis

A real big part of our culture in our community is that we have each others backs and we look out for each other. We love each other near and far. Love each other off the basis of our blackness. I see another black person, I speak. I see another black person, I nod. It’s an acknowledgement of life, an acknowledgement of presence and an acknowledgement of love.

Chorus (Jada):

Jada Chorus

 It ain’t easy

not every day

They testing me

Test my faith and test my strength

I’m going up, going up

It’s just a part of growing up, growing up

Jada Verse

State of the world is so unreal

I’m pushing the weight off my

Pushing the weight off my shoulder

Sho’Nuff

Still gon’ count by blessings

Pushing the weight off my

Pushing the weight off my shoulder

Basi Verse:

Growth

Was the ones did the most

Through the highs and the lows

Having fun making toasts

Now we think it all through and we still do the most

But precision is the mission in the vision that I wrote

Just listen it’s a lesson in the words that I spoke

Wisdom is the weapon

Plant a seed it’s gone grow

Symbols of protection on my skin I can’t fold

Stuck in the same place say it ain’t so

Yo Back to my back

And my back to yo back

And my raps in yo ear

And my black and yo black

she said tell me what you need please Basi talk back

All facts no cap all caps

Not this all that

Ima bounce right back

We gone get straight to it

Where you been where you at

No time to react or relax we back

Yeah we started in the soil but we put it on

the map

That’s facts

Jada Chorus

 It ain’t easy

not every day

They testing me

Test my faith and test my strength

I’m going up, going up

It’s just a part of growing up, growing up

(Outro) - Ikera Davis

So for me and my personal journey of learning to love myself was for things that had nothing to do with my blackness. Learning to love who I am for real. Not who the world sees me as. But who I am and who I see myself as. learning to be okay with being misunderstood but not being okay with being unheard. As a plus-sized Black women, I’ve went through times and moments not being sure or present through my self love journey where other times I love myself today and everything’s okay. Other days you have to love yourself today because nobody else is. It’s up to you to feed yourself, nurture yourself and to not let other peoples opinions get in the way of your journey of self love.