Rapper Mack Maine: My Mom Was Going to Abort Me But Changed Her Mind

National   |   Steven Ertelt   |   Mar 22, 2013   |   1:16PM   |   Washington, DC

Rap artist Mack Maine is happy to be alive. You see, his mother was going to have an abortion when pregnant with him, but changed her mind at the last minute.

To celebrate her decision, Maine, who’s real name is Jermaine Preyan, has released a new song called Celebrate, in which he shares his testimony. The song features Lil Wayne & Talib Kweli.

“They said I was s’posed to die as a fetus,” he says in the song.

He recently told MTV’s RapFix Live program (below): “My mom was about to abort me. She was about to have an abortion. She was lying on the table and she changed her life at that moment… She got saved and became a Christian.”

The lyrics of the song follow:

Owwww
Young Mula baby, that’s right
Happy music, happy people
Happy people
Everything’s alright
Everything is alright
Yeah, come on

Pop a bottle and celebrate
We done made it to a new day, yeah
Pop a bottle and celebrate
We done made it to a new day
Oh I take a hit and just elevate
Cause today will be a good day
I got my mind right, money right, ready for war
Workin’ hard today for a better tomorrow

Hey, blow the horns on ‘em
The sun is out, it’s a brand new day and it just dawned on ‘em
The smoke in here got ‘em floating just like in salt water
And break is fast, we got it cooking just like a short order
Feed the hands when the birds cover the cheetah print
A jungle out there and the jail is the zoo that keep us in
Players in gators is crazy, we feel the need to rock ‘em
Furs coming in all different colors like Peter got ‘em
Killing yourself for a salary
Look ya line flatter than stomachs of the women that’s running, watching them calories
Hope that we linking, we smoking and drinking casually
Cause life without living ain’t nothing but a fallacy

Pop a bottle and celebrate
We done made it to a new day, yeah
Pop a bottle and celebrate
We done made it to a new day
Oh I take a hit and just elevate
Cause today will be a good day
I got my mind right, money right, ready for war
Workin’ hard today for a better tomorrow

Heyyy, I say: “who’s that peekin’ in my window?”
Is that sunshine? is that one time?
Let that sun shine through my living room
Hospitality is what I’m giving you
Harsh reality is what I’ve been through
But I’m not alone, ask her and him too
And they shall tell ya, ain’t nothin’ better
Than the smell of a new day
And I know the ocean runs dry and the sky get dark
And ya don’t see what he’s trying to show ya
And I know the wall may seem tall
But if we help each other I guarantee that we’ll get over
And once I’m over, I’ll reach back for my brother
And pull him over as well
Keep our heads high and our noses wide open
Hopin’ for that new day smell
Love live life

Pop a bottle and celebrate
We done made it to a new day, yeah
Pop a bottle and celebrate
We done made it to a new day
Oh I take a hit and just elevate
Cause today will be a good day
I got my mind right, money right, ready for war
Workin’ hard today for a better tomorrow

eah, yeah, yeah, yeah homie I been away since I was 16
To tell ‘em what I’m about to tell ‘em so I need more than a 16
See I’m the only son of Mary and Joe
So I gotta fulfill my purpose ‘fore I’m buried, ya know
My momma say she having visions of me being a missionary
And the hood looking at me as a walking visionary
So I sit back and wonder will I ever have my time to shine
And die like Pac in his prime
Or will I go out like Len Bias and OD before the tryouts
No tell a reaper, no buyout
I’m good, I pray for a head to protect ya
And I gotta walk the streets with the heat as my protection
Still gotta watch my back, still watch my front home
Cause I seen a lot of niggas die with they gun on
So with that in mind, I just get higher
And pray to the higher Messiah, I’m no liar
And they say that puffing the fire fucks with your memory
But I got a lot of stuff that I don’t want remember see
Like when my homie Ivory died
I like how I never seen a man cry till I seen Lance die
Never seen my pops cry till I seen my Grams die
And I’m here to tell him that I miss my Grams too
And I wish that I could hug her for mothers day too
And I feel the same way that you do
But we still gotta move on so she can just smile down on us
And I don’t want the Lord to ever frown down on us
I know that they really got power and a gun
But I also know that they got power in a tongue
So every time I speak, look I try to speak life
Y’all tweaking for broads, I tweak life
They said I was supposed to die as a fetus
My momma said I buy in that Devil in the name of Jesus
So now I’m here just to talk to y’all
Come and stroll with me homie, let me walk wit’ y’all
Ten million ways to die so I chose
To get my life right by the end of the road
Before my body in a casket and I’m stiff and froze
Before I’m laying in a morgue with a tag on my toe
I’m here to tell you take heed to the warnings
School shootings, hurricanes and global warming
Open ya Bibles up with no hesitation
BC was the Genesis, this is Revelations
So you better pick your destination
Tomorrow ain’t promised, better pick your destination
Rest in peace B Spencer, rest in peace Beepsy
Shit could be worse so I’m feeling like Weezy
I wake up in the morning, take a piss and wash my hands
Take a knee and thank the Man and leave my life in God’s hands, yeah

The rapper also faced adversity when he dealt with the death of his grandmother — telling MTV:  “It really affected my dad a lot. I lost him for a year behind that. My dad, he turned to drugs… It really took a toll on him.”