“No one knew where you were, Lecrae. We were worried,” she said, shaking her head. Turning toward her bedroom, she looked at my stepdad: “I don’t know what to say right now. You talk to him.” My stepdad motioned for Bryan and me to sit next to him on the couch. He looked at the ground in silence for a moment, trying to think of what to say. My stepdad didn’t have a father growing up, so he didn’t know how to have a father-son style conversation. Plus, we had a tense relationship
