Fans who've had a chance to watch how 2 Chainz honored his mother with inclusion in the video he dropped for Proud got a sense of the esteem in which he holds the women who raised him. Unfortunately, jail time has been as strong a part of his family's legacy as strong women have been, but his aunt's return home after surviving 28 years in the bing proves that the women are stronger.
On Friday, May 25, Tity Boi took to social media with an assortment of pics and videos of the fam welcoming his auntie Punkin home. One recording shows the moment she was ushered into the backyard gathering by a member of security.
While the walker and gray hair on her head served as an obvious indication that she lost many years behind bars, there was a graceful beauty about her that only enhanced the joy exhibited on the faces of her two sisters sitting beside her in a couple of photographs the rapper posted.
"#welcomehomeauntie !!!! 28 years of confinement and you made it out with a sound mind and heart #Godislove," 2 Chainz wrote in the caption of a selfie that captures her new status as a free woman. A photo he shared showed each of them sitting in the same position three decades ago. He captioned that image with: "GOTTA ALOT OF MY TOUGHNESS FROM THESE PEOPLE RIGHT HERE."
During a 2012 interview with The Urban Daily, Tity went in depth about how he owes much of his rearing to his mother and aunties. But he also made a note of how even they, like the men in his life, wound up in and out of prison at various points.
In one of the paragraphs, he made mention of how Punkin was jailed in 1988 along with another aunt, but that she had just been seeing her release not long before he sat down to talk with the publication.
Shout out to 2 Chainz for sticking it out through thick and thin with his loved ones. And all the best to Aunt Punkin as she rejoices with old friends and family.
