HOUSTON – Houston rap artist Trae Tha Truth spent several months looking for his missing daughter, Truth, who disappeared after her mother picked her up for a visitation and didn’t return.
Last week, Trae said his daughter was finally found and they have since been reunited.
He spoke with KPRC 2 about the situation Monday.
“The only way it happened was God,” Trae said. “He put the right people in position, the right people in place where everything aligned at the right time.”
Trae said he received a call on New Year’s Day from U.S. Marshals saying his daughter had been found in El Centro, California.
“I jumped up and in less than 20 minutes I was driving to the airport, got to traveling all day,” he said.
He told KPRC 2 this experience has reminded him to never give up.
“Sometimes you have children, even elders, you have people in your family that doesn’t know to fight for themselves, can’t fight for themselves, and for me the love I have for my children, I was going to go to the point where I couldn’t walk no more, to the point I couldn’t breathe, I had to go to the end to protect them,” Trae said.
He said after several months, he was nervous at first about seeing his daughter.
“You never know what your child has been taught, what they’ve been told about you and I think when we both saw each other she was kind of hesitant for maybe 30 seconds to a minute, but as soon as she saw her brother, everything that she was thinking, everything that she could have been told went out the window,” Trae said. “When she hugged her brother, then from that point on she never left my side.”
He says even while trying to give back to Houston at holiday events, he felt people’s support through the entire situation.
“You had the kids and the parents coming up to me, saying, ‘I’m praying for you,’ and how much they appreciate with what I’m going through right now and that I took time away from dealing with what I was dealing with to assist them, that gave them hope and motivation,” he said. “I think this experience probably touched a lot of fathers that may have already given up to understand that if they keep their faith in God and they stay dedicated and they go in day in day out, there’s a chance they could be reunited with their children too.”