![]() That’s part of being Williamson Starr, I guess. I really wanted to be Joe - I secretly loved him the most, but Hailey said she should have him, so I let her. She decided she was Joe, I was Nick, and Maya was Kevin. So there’s a video deep in the depths of YouTube of the three of us lip-synching to the Jonas Brothers and pretending to play guitars and drums in Hailey’s bedroom. It’s silent in the Impala except for Tupac asking who do you believe in? I don’t know. “Man, get outta here! Tupac was the truth.” “Why you always listening to that old stuff?” Khalil drops the brush in the door and cranks up his stereo, blasting an old rap song Daddy has played a million times. Since it’s just Khalil singing, I decide the list could do without Drake’s “Best I Ever Had.”Ĥ. ‘Baby, you’re my everything, you all I ever wanted’,” Khalil sings in a whiny voice.” “Can’t believe you still love whiny-ass Drake.” A smile tries to form on his lips, but he shakes his head. ![]() Some days, we are at the bottom in Garden Heights, but we still share the feeling that damn, it could be worse. Everybody on the dance floor yells out the “started from the bottom, now we’re here” part. I nod to the beat and rap along under my breath. The music changes and Drake raps from the speakers. I could have gone for Silentó’s “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae),” which tbh is the better song - and Thomas features it on her playlist as well as the original, but with no mention of the Whip in the text, We are Toonz made the cut.Īt Big D’s party, people Nae-Naed, Hit the Quan, twerked and stuff. Some rapper calls out for everybody to Nae-Nae, followed by a bunch of “Heys” as people launch into their own versions. Here are the textual references and some other notes: That one, unsurprisingly, has a lot in common with mine, though I stick closer to the text Thomas’s chosen songs fill out a world beyond her words. You can listen to the playlist here, and you can also hear a playlist made by the author. The Hate U Give is a really excellent book! Since it contains a lot of music, I made a Spotify playlist to accompany it.
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