On the Come Up

by Angie Thomas

That’s when I learned that when people die, they sometimes take the living with them.

This a temporary setback for a major comeback. We ain’t letting it stop the come up.”

And yeah, they’re white. What really gets me though? The title of her article before this one. Why You Won’t Take My Guns: Gun Control Has No Place Here But it’s different when I rap about guns? I wonder why.