Jay encourages Bri to think about who she is, which gives Bri the strength to fire Supreme and engage with fame on her own terms.On the Come Up Discussion and On the Come Up Review written by the Ent on 2/21. As Bri's fame spirals out of control and she makes several ill-advised public statements, as well as begins to prioritize objects-like Lawless's chain-above her friends, she comes to see that she doesn't like the person she's becoming. He encourages Bri to play the part of the "ratchet hood rat," an identity that Bri feels isn't her. Bri keeps her activities a secret from Jay as she becomes involved with Lawless's old manager, Supreme, who believes Bri's song will be an instant hit. Being thrown to the floor and handcuffed by her school's racist security guards inspires Bri's first song, " On the Come Up." However, Bri is extremely upset when Aunt Pooh and others take issue with the lyrics that talk about violence and gang activity.
She believes that a record deal will allow her to save her family from poverty. In the present, Bri spends much of her time worrying about whether she'll have electricity or food at home. Internally, Bri struggles to make sense of several traumatic events in her life: her father, Lawless, was shot when she was four years old, and a year later, Jay became addicted to crack and left Bri and her older brother, Trey, with Grandma and Granddaddy-something so traumatic that Bri still has nightmares. Bri is labeled as "aggressive" and "confrontational," which she attributes primarily to being one of only a handful of black students at school. Bri feels invisible in part because, though she lives in a predominately black neighborhood, she buses to the wealthier white neighborhood of Midtown to attend Midtown School of the Arts, where she tends to attract negative attention. Despite this, Bri feels she's invisible and hasn't rapped for anyone but Jay, her best friends Sonny and Malik, and her Aunt Pooh. According to Bri's mom, whom Bri calls Jay, Bri has been rapping since she was old enough to hold a hairbrush like a microphone. The sixteen-year-old protagonist and an aspiring rapper.
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