Gloria Carter Opens Up About Coming Out on Jay-Z's Song Smile Gloria Carter Opens Up About Coming Out on Jay-Z’s Song “Smile” - Blogged by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Nearly Three Months After GloriaCarter’s Emotional Revelation on Her Son’s Highly Anticipated “444” 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”