Tres also has serious music as well. On Tres Will Survive, he shares a spoken word piece about him almost being aborted, partially from the perspective of his mother and partially from his own. His mother was a 21-year-old single mother who already had a daughter when she became pregnant with Tres. She didn’t know if she could provide for another child and was contemplating abortion. Tres’ mother ended up going to God and found the assurance that she needed to go through with the pregnancy.
I really wanted to embellish that side of the issue of abortion.
He thinks about some very influential people like Martin Luther King Jr. and imagines what the world would be like if they had been aborted.
“Return of the Gentleman” is a song about gentlemanly behavior, a topic rarely discussed in hip-hop. The song features Christon and Taelor Gray and according to Tres, it is probably the most favorite song he had ever made.
It embodies everything that I have always known to be true but had never lived out prior to coming to Christ.
Before becoming a Christian, Tres explains how he treated women.
I was basing it on the music that I had heard. I was hearing artists say, ‘Gotta have a couple’ or ‘Have sex, and then move on to the next one’. A lot of those principles became infused in me, and I had thought that it was corny to do anything other than that….Once I came to the Lord, I realized that women are a precious commodity.
The song is a rally cry for men. Tres clarifies, “[Men should] show appreciation for our women from simple stuff like opening doors to good manners, helping around the house, going the extra mile on little things to make women feel special….The more I ponder that our women are wounded, the more I realize that it’s because our men are not stepping up. I wanted to challenge our women to not settle, and I wanted to challenge our men to step it up.”
