LUCIOUS & COOKIE: TUG OF WAR II (REMASTERED)

JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT THE DRAMA WAS DONE, CHAOS ENSURES

Three Weeks Later

Jamal

Okay so I didn't beat dad for Song of The Year at the ASA's but honestly, it wasn't even that serious to me. Winning that award meant far more to my father than it could ever mean to me and it's not like I didn't win any ASA's at all or like I won't have the opportunity to compete in that category again one day. 

Besides, since then both of my parents have been practically floating on cloud nine. Dad's mood has been great, he and mom are all kissy and huggy up on each other most of the times. It's like they're like they used to be when me, Dre, and Keem were younger...you know before life's challenges intervened and broke our family down.

Closing in on my little brother's tenth birthdays, the mid-summer heat is scorching outside, and yet again we're facing another hot New York summer. Things have been surprisingly quiet and calm around our family which is odd to say the very least because it always seems as if this family, can't go a day without some typa drama poppin' off. Yet, thankfully enough, all's been well.

Dre is back home with Michelle and the kids, and they've been attending marriage counseling sessions three times a week to try and sort out their issues. Finding out that our paternal grandmother was actually Bi-Polar, and she killed herself in front of dad has actually helped my big brother alot in dealing with the difficulties of his illness a little better. It's also one of the reasons why I've put my negative feelings towards my father to the side as well. I mean as long as he treats mom right then I'm cool.

Dre seems to be coping with the fact that his illness is beyond his control and that he can't try to put limits on his life, nor his marriage solely based on the fact that he's afraid of something that could possibly never affect any of his kids at all. The odds are actually in his favor cause I mean outta our parent's six kids only two of us actually seem to be affected by our grandmother's mental disorder. 

It wasn't easy but Mom made sure that we all rallied around Andre as a family and for the first time that I can remember even Lucious was at damn near every one of Dre's therapy sessions trying to show his support.

Weird right...Yeah, tell me about it.

Am I still a little pissed about how everything went down between my father and I over the whole Lola thing...of course I am, but at the end of the day, despite what I once said outta anger, he is my father and I love him. 

Skye and I are doing really well, she's home now from her tour and in the studio working on her next album with a couple of different producers. We've collaborated on a few new tracks and have gotten in a few lil' freaky studio sessions here and there too at that. But that's an entirely different subject because both of my parents would absolutely freak or probably kill us if they knew some of the things we've been up to in their studios.

Anyway, as far as I go, well I've been working closely with D-Major so we can put the finishing touches on my baby girl's self-titled debut album, and I couldn't be prouder of her to be quite honest. Nothing will ever change my love for Lola, and nothing will ever make me see her as anything else besides my daughter.

I leaned back in my seat, then ran my hands over my beard while posted behind the soundboard watching Lola sing her heart out. My smile just refuses to be contained as I admire how much she seems to have grown since everything that's happened in her life in less than a year.

Her beautiful and full voice engulfed me as she belted out a song that she wrote called "Gangster of Love".

I was gonna get our new artist Kranium to feature on it with her, but she insisted on doing it alone. She doesn't need auto tune or any adjustments, my baby's a natural talent, plus the breathing tube she had for all those months actually gave her voice a bit more depth to be honest and she sounds slightly older.