HOUSTON - She's an internet sensation, stars in hip hop videos, writes her own words and has fans around the globe. Oh, and Lyric Ragston of Fresno, Texas is only 10-years-old and all of this started just 7 short months ago. But early on Lyric's father Mitchell knew he had a singer on his hands when he was bringing his oldest child home from the hospital. "On the way home she was crying nonstop. We put on one of the beats my brother and I were using to rap to and she immediately stopped," Mitchell said. The fifth grader never stopped. She started tagging along with her father when he went to the recording studio. "One day, I told my daddy I wanted to do it and then one summer, when he was home, he asked did I really want to do it and we started writing together," Lyric said. That wasn't enough. Lyric, who goes by Lyrikka, started asking to make a video. It wasn't easy. Mitchell is an insurance salesman with no experience in creating videos. "The first video wasn't even shot with a camera. It was shot with a laptop computer and we were actually following her around and she was doing her song and she and her friend had a dance routine to it and it's cute and all fun and games. We were like oh, we can put this on YouTube and it'll calm her down," Mitchell remembered. It was short and simple: edited that night and posted. The family couldn't believe their eyes when the next day, there were 200000 hits. More videos, more songs, more practices were to come. This songstress also ...
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