Lyrical Breakdown of Little Chicago Boy - Commentary - A Journey through Words and Rhymes

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Okay, "Little Chicago Boy" "Little Chicago Boy" is another song that's very like close to my heart and spirit It's a song based on my father Lonnie "Pops" Lynn who Who would end off all my albums with a spoken word piece Ever since my second album My father passed in 2014, September, so When Karriem made his music I just, I don't know, I just, it had a I just felt like the spirit with it, that was like, it felt close to me And it felt like emotional, so, I started to write like about Started to write about my dad, it just came out, like how should I begin This is the story of a boy named Lonnie Lynn and it's really Like this is just autobiography in a way This is, I'm talking about my dad But I'm talking about from my perspective And not tryna create a human being that was perfect But telling all his beautiful things Telling all his quirks and all his things that was crazy to me But all his brilliant things too And, uhm, just talking about our relationship and how it feel How I feel about him and, and you know How he passed on a strong legacy to me And, so the song is, is uplifting at the day But it still emotional, and, you know Homage, paying honor to, to my dad, to my pops And Tasha Cobbs, who is one of my favorite artists ever And just is a great vocalist, gospel singer Who I listen to her songs all the time Uhm, I asked her would she be on the song 'Cause I knew she would bring more of The connection of God and the father, like our heavenly father Her being a gospel artist and knowing how To do contemporary music but still keep it in In that soul of where, you know, spirituals comes from She sang and she also told me how her father passed So, it really, it really was a strong connection therse for us, and, uh I was blessed to have some, some, uhm Some recordings of my father that I'd never used on any album That he had actually recorded a couple, uhm, a year, the year he passed And I put those on there too, so he can still have the outro to the album As we pay homage to him, so that's "Little Chicago Boy"