so beautiful. i tell her every day. of all of the things this kid rapper has going for him, perhaps one of the strongest is his love for his family and his determination to make sure people know that downs syndrome doesn t hold you down. my sister, she is in a normal classroom at school. and she does all of her homework, she does everything. she also knows some of the lyrics to my songs. scream and shout. let it all out. make a hit with mattie. she is as sweet as he is. thank you very much for letting me tag along, you know. i went over to where he was having a concert at the georgia dome, a couple weeks ago. look at you and mattie b. i m squatting down. i m not that short.
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my version is drop dirty. what does daily life look like to mattie? what it looks like for a lot of 11-year-olds of it he plays baseball, goes fishing, hangs out with friends. there is another part of his life people are interested in. mattie b s relationship with his sister. i dedicate this song to my sister sarah grace. she is 8 and she has downs syndrome. she is really smart and stuff. they s really funny. mattie b and sarah grace performed at the buddy walk, a fund-raiser for downs syndrome. she has been in his videos and one he dedicated to her has more than 12 million views on youtube.
throb. have you had a moment you had a crazy fan? yes. a fan tackled me once. where were you? at a basketball game. i performed and i went to watch the game, and she tackled me. what did she say? she s like you have to marry me. he s got more than 5 million fans on facebook with an audience primarily of girls 7-14 years old. when you hear he is a rapper you might think wait a minute, what are these girls listening to? this kid gives rapper a different imang. besides writing some of his own songs mattie takes popular songs that might be too mature for a younger audience and modifies them. i rewrite them with my cousin and we make it clean. so any one can listen to it.