KarlaGod... My music, My stories, My God

I know I got a strong heart but weak eyes Cry when I'm angry, laugh when I'm sad Don't mistake dem liquid for weakness Wouldn't let hate burn me so I let it flow out through the windows of my soul Bitterness turns to salt and water when my knees hit the floor Not worried about any disrespects I got God's respect It is our month of moving forward after all

The woman had a basket on her head full with fishes; there were little ones and big ones. I knew this because this was not the first time she had been to my grand-mother’s shop. I was standing there beside the half broken protector wrapping my fingers around the belt attached to my favorite navy blue colored gown. “Were your mama, go tell am say fish don com”. I stood there studying her as she let down the basket of fish from her head without dropping the piece of rag from her head that she uses to steady it; I found it intriguing and curious, but the curiosity vanished as soon as she removed the rag and stood akimbo looking tired and staring at the little girl who wouldn’t go call her grandmother. “Were your mama na” she asked in an irritated tone, “abeg call am come, I get market to sell for olori road”. Bashful me stood there staring and studying her with curiosity that I could not explain, until suddenly my aunt Jorfa (meaning: ad...

Even if the rain poured, it still can't take away your shine You got the Son in you so baby give that rainbow smile You are His perfect picture, let Him be your perfect standard You are as beautiful as the words He spoke with no blunders So let His word be the judge and this poem be the jury We'll sentence you to a happy good life with no sorry(s) Don't be sorry, you're God's best it means you're better than your past So be what He wants you to be and you'll never come out last

I learnt recently that you can talk to your emotions no matter how overwhelming the situation is. I had a very painful experience once, and I was trying to explain myself; but you know what happens when you're trying to talk especially out of hurt, you tend to cry more than the words can come, lol. In that moment as I was trying to talk, I told myself, I just spoke out "Stop crying Karla!" And the tears stopped,faster than the snap of  fingers. Days later, while thinking of the scenario, I found out that you can talk to your emotions and actually control it. I knew this before, but now it was like it was a knew knowledge. You can choose to be happy, you can choose to be sad, you can talk to your emotions and tell them to stop being angry, you can choose to be in a good mood. You can also talk to your emotions and teach them to be inspired and excited in certain things. It's not a "hormonal work", it's a "word work". Think about it, why ...

If you took a snapshot of your dreams, what would it look like? If you rewound to your past, what would you learn? A friend of mine always say, "I have no regrets, just lessons". Most times we are asked to forget the past, but it is not just the mistakes of the past that should be forgotten, forget also the successes so you don't have something called "a success hangover". The thing that happens to almost successful people who hold on to what they did in the past that succeeded but never improve on it. LEARN TO BEAT YOUR OWN RECORD You have a personal race to run, you can't compare yourself with anyone but you, that is why your present must be better than your past and good enough to inspire your future. It's like what happened to me in the process of releasing my Mix-Lyric I wanted it to be out so good so that I could set a standard for myself to beat. Keep your desires dedicated to the direction of success.

So we had decided, we said we would hold the R&B concert, and it was going to be the bomb, we didn’t care what the challenges would be, or the circumstances that surrounded our decision. We said we would hold it and that was final!!! We had meetings; at church, at the studio, during the day and at night, we prayed like we had not prepared and prepared like we had not prayed, we went out on publicity even at 11pm into 12am placing banners and posters. Preparing for the R&B concert did something to our spirit, mine especially, I learnt that whatever you want you can get, no matter how hard it might seem. I learnt the power of proper leadership, I learnt what faith means, faith says I want this thing and I have it even if I haven’t seen it yet. We needed a lot of things, we needed more partnership, we made do with the ones that came to us from our friends and church members. We went to the radio station Today FM 95.1 to talk about our concert. We went to the press to get our publi...

  Track 1 - THE BIRTH OF KARLA GOD This was my first ever attempt at rap, it was my first ever hip hop related work, I wrote this at a stage in my life where I didn't even know what punch lines were, I didn't even know or had the inclination that I could become a rapper. So when White Mic, picked me and said “You seem bold, you’re bold, I think you can rap, come I’ ll teach you”, I went to him and he took me on 2 rap classes, the things he taught me spiked something in me, it was like he brought out rap from me, even when I didn't know it was there. After the classes he gave me an assignment, to write a spoken word, I picked one of my write ups from my archive of “stuff I have written”  which was this one, tweaked some lines, and made it into my introduction. Track 2 – GOSPEL GANGSTA Yeah I just wanted to brag and throw punch lines at anyone who thought they could mess with me. Track 3 – WHO YOU ARE This was my first ever Solo. I wrote this t...