■. HOOD. I basically grew up like Alicia Keys. My mom is white, and was a single mother with 4 children from several fathers. She divorced her last husband in 1995 and moved to the worst neighborhood of the country.

The Hood

●. I played the Keyboard, a little toypiano. I taught myself to play the Chorus of [Big Big WORLD, 1997] on it when I was 5

●. One of my mom's rich clients once donated us a real KEYBOARD and I was playing it constantly. Copying sheetmusic from the Library

■. 90s/00s. My wish was to be a Musician, but for some reason.. I thought it was just "going to happen" I didn't go after it at all. I just did Music, naturally.

●. My favorite style of music was R&B #MurderINC. Nelly, Ashanti, Destiny's Child.. Alicia Keys later as well.

💬. I really didn't care about BRITNEY/XTINA. Learning that Taylor had a poster of Britney on the wall, made me giggle. Sorry

●. 2001: all my classmates teased me "you look EXACTLY like Michael Jackson" & I knew he was my dad

■. My Life went into ISOLATION after 2003. I had to play a Muslima and by now, I just count as one. My mom, just hid me in the house.. she kept track of me. She made sure she knew where I was at all moments, even GPSapps were used. At a certain point, I wasn't even allowed to go to my room. I had to announce going to the toilet.

●. School: "STRAIGHT HOME, no Friends.. call mama! Bike fast"
●. College: I was only allowed one year

After 18, I was in pure #QUARANTINE.

■. QUARANTINELIFE. The rest of my life after 18, I spend inside the house.. listening to Music and trying to break down the GASLIGHTING. Nothing made sense, at all. I felt I was being #Brainwashed to think I'm an Arabian, a Turk like my dad. But, I couldn't make sense of "who am I, mama.. what am I doing here. I'm gonna be alone with you forever, I wanna marry"

●. I don't Likey white guys, or ARABIANs. I always liked black guys or ones that act #Hoody

●. "my skin is YELLOW/BROWN. Yours is red"