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The content and theme of the song are about the singer's life last year and how they deal with abuse and how they are proud to be black. In the song the singer uses lots of internal rhymes, for example, he would say " till this day I still pray for a better day." He would also say things like "And no rest forever weary , my eyes stay teary. He uses many more rhymes in the poem such using the words represent and went at the end of some lines. He uses many other end rhymes in the poem but he also uses repetition In the second part of the song the singer repeats the words "But on our block, we still pray" twice.  He repeats the words block  in the poem over ten times.

On November 3 rd 2016, my parents took my sisters and I to eat at Jim's Kitchen telling us that we were going out for brunch instead of eating at home. We sat down ordered and my dad said that we are going to play a game, he told us that a life-changing event was going to happen and that we had to guess what it was. My first thought was a Baby but I didn't actually say that what I said was "We aren't moving again are we?" "No it's happier news." My sisters and I continued to guess a couple more times until I finally hesitantly guessed if it was a baby and to my happiness it was. Eight months after that my mom goes back to Canada to live with my grandparents and have the baby while the rest of us stayed and finished the month and a half that was left of school. Two weeks after she left she skypes us and tells us that the baby is going to be born much earlier than we thought (3 weeks early) as there was a problem with the pregnancy. On the ea