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It's Not A Fairytale - Sarai



     
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It all started like this, ninth grade, freshman year
So happy to be in high school, I shedded a tear
So many cute dudes to choose from, I knew it was one
That was, right for me, well, I thought at least
He was the big guy on campus on the football team
Basketball, homecoming, he was voted for King
There was me, I was on the cheer leading squad
Sweet sixteen, lookin' for love in my heart
It was a, beautiful thing from the start I must say
Only problem, my parents were strict, they ain't play
No phone calls after eight, no stayin' out late
I'm like, "Damn, gimme a break"
Hormones kickin' in, start displayin' my shape
More concerned with my looks than my books and grades
Headed nowhere fast, I was on my way
Curiosity, c'mon, I know y'all relate
I think about the characters in my storybook
The pages I have read you

This ain't your momma's fairytale
The things that I have been through
In all my life, in all my days
I never thought, I would end up this way
It's been a year now, I'm a sophomore, maturin' no more
Still I'm young and dumb and plus I'm unsure
Who I am, what the future has in store
Man, I'm tryin' to be grown 'cause my parents now divorced
I took a charge to roll with Dough Boy
Moms tried to force me to move to New York
But of course that plan, it fell short
She found herself caught up in court on child support
Drama, problems of all sorts
Stressin' started smokin' Newports
Carefree about the ones who care for me
Lost teen, givin' up on my dreams and as worst as that seems
Had me thinkin' crazy things like suicide
Like it'd better everything if, I just die
Full blown, without guidance or a home
I'm startin' to get stomach pains that's strange, what could be wrong?
I think about the characters in my storybook
The pages I have read you
This ain't your momma's fairytale
The things that I have been through
In all my life, in all my days
I never thought, I would end up this way
What do I do? I ask myself, everyday
A child givin' birth to a child, what can I say?
This wasn't 'posed to happen to me, no way
Hear I am, turned my back on my fam, well, goddamn
This wasn't even part of the plan, I'm spazzin' out
I lay down at night, the hurt just burst out
I shout, "How could he leave at my time of need?"
'Specially now, I'm pregnant and due in three?
Maybe, I should have it and give it up for adoption
I can't graduate, I ain't been to school since August
Often I hear this voice talkin' in the back of my mind
So many problems in my life, I just pray for my time to come
God, take me, leave my child behind, I'm on the run
Adrenaline pumpin' so angry, I could kill some'n
Don't make me prove it 'cause if you don't do it then I'ma do it
I'm foolish and so stupid
Think about the characters in my storybook
The pages I have read you
This ain't your momma's fairytale
The things that I have been through
In all my life, in all my days
I never thought, I would end up this way
Think about the characters in my storybook
The pages I have read you
This ain't your momma's fairytale
Things that I have been through
In all my life, in all my days
I never thought, I would end up this way

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A native of upstate New York, Sarai may have been weaned on MTV in the 1980s, but by the 1990s she had turned to rap and hip-hop as her life's soundtrack. A fascination with words meant that Sarai wrote poetry from an early age, but it was only when she was a teenager that she first rhymed to a beat while gossiping with her girlfriends.

After a chance meeting with producer L.J. Sutton (a.k.a. Chocolate Starr) in Atlanta, Sarai was on her way to the big leagues. Sarai's potential and sex appeal led to her getting snapped up by Epic Records, making her the first white female rapper to have a major recording contract.

Sarai Howard was born in 1981, and grew up in Kingston, New York, a working-class city in upstate Ulster County. Sarai, along with her older brother Michael, was raised by her mother Teresa in a single-parent household. The family moved repeatedly, and Sarai attended many different local schools and held down dozens of part-time jobs.

Teresa's musical interests included The Police and Fleetwood Mac, and for a while, Sarai's taste in tunes mirrored her mother's. "I'm a straight MTV baby," Sarai later explained.

But it was Sarai's brother, more a fan of genre pioneers Public Enemy, Run-D.M.C. and NWA, who first introduced her to rap and hip-hop. Soon Sarai was into Jay-Z, Tupac and Notorious BIG. Meanwhile, by the time Sarai was in high school, she was acting in plays, singing in the choir, and writing poetry.

When Sarai was 15, she improvised a joke rhyme about some of the other girls in their town while hanging out with her friends. Sarai's rapping continued as a hobby for a few years after that, as she was finishing high school and making plans to attend a community college in Kingston.

At 17, when Sarai and one of her friends were vacationing in Atlanta, Sarai was discovered. Sarai's friend struck up a conversation with some men at a gas station; when they said they worked at a nearby recording studio, Sarai impressed them with her flow, and was taken to meet producer L.J. Sutton, a.k.a. Chocolate Starr.

Before long, Sarai was traveling to Atlanta regularly for meetings and demo recordings.

In 2000, she moved south permanently to chase her dream of being a rapper. After two more years of laying the groundwork, Sarai landed a deal with Epic Records, becoming the first white female rapper to be represented by a major label.

In 2003, Sarai released her debut album, The Original, featuring the singles "Pack Ya Bags" and "Ladies." Radio DJs quickly took to calling her "Feminem," referring to the trailblazing Eminem. "I don't like it," commented Sarai at the time, "but I like him."

Although "Pack Ya Bags" and "Ladies" had some chart success, critics and fans were lukewarm about Sarai's talent. She couldn't quite shake her reputation as a novelty act -- a white girl in an industry dominated by black men.

More recently, Sarai has tried her hand at acting, taking a role in National Lampoon's Pledge This!.

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