Jay: Jay is Bri’s mother, who became addicted to drugs after Bri’s father was shot. She believes that getting a record deal and becoming a famous rapper would help her and her family. She feels isolated because she goes to a wealthier school, and has to navigate that part of her life with her poor home environment. As she experiences the first hand trauma of gun violence, drug abuse, and poverty, Bri doesn’t know if she has what it takes to succeed, but she’s willing to try to save herself and the people she loves.īrianna Jackson: Bri is an aspiring rapper trying to find her place in her community. She knows that getting a record deal will be her ticket out, and will also enable her to provide for her struggling family. It is the story of fighting for your dreams, even as the odds are stacked against you and about how, especially for young black people, freedom of speech isn't always free.Brianna has always dreamed of getting out of her small town Garden Heights and making it big as a rapper. Insightful, unflinching, and full of heart, On the Come Up is an ode to hip hop from one of the most influential literary voices of a generation.
Even if it means becoming the very thing the public has made her out to be.
But with an eviction notice staring her family down, Bri doesn't just want to make it-she has to. for all the wrong reasons.īri soon finds herself at the center of a controversy, portrayed by the media as more menace than MC. So Bri pours her anger and frustration into her first song, which goes viral. As the daughter of an underground hip hop legend who died right before he hit big, Bri's got massive shoes to fill.īut it's hard to get your come up when you're labeled a hoodlum at school, and your fridge at home is empty after your mom loses her job. Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time.
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