"Friday, Jay, and Jay Z: Gloria Carter Opens Up About  Coming Out on Jay-Z's Song, ""Smile""  @balleralert Gloria Carter Opens Up About Coming Out on Jay-Z's Song, ""Smile"" - blogged by @MsJennyb ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Nearly three months after GloriaCarter's emotional revelation on her son's highly anticipated ""4:44"" album, Jay-Z's mother is speaking out about the entire ordeal. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ""I just finally started telling (Jay-Z) who I was. Besides your mother, this is the person that I am. This is the life that I live,"" Carter said on the D'USSE Friday podcast. ""So my son started actually tearing. 'Cause he's like, 'That had to be a horrible life, Ma'. I was like, 'My life was never horrible. It was just different.' So that made him want to do a song about it."" ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ However, the song almost didn't make the cut, as Carter wasn't happy with it at first. Jay-Z spit lyrics that were so direct and to the point, that Carter became hesitant about the release and subsequent exposure of her personal business. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ""I was sharing myself with ( JayZ), not to share myself with the world. I don't know if I'm ready for that,"" she recalled. However, things took a turn when Carter revisited the words that she'd written for Jay-Z. Her words turned into poetry and eventually became the poetic break on ""Smile,"" that Jay-Z allowed her to speak for herself on the track. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ""I was never ashamed of me,"" she said. ""I'm tired of all the mystery. I'm gonna give it to them. I don't have to worry about anybody wondering if I'm in the life or not. I'm gonna tell them. So now that I told you what do you have to talk about? So now maybe you can focus on the phenomenal things I do."""
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