5 Grand

Right, look what momma did with 5 grand Every month that's what she gets from white men Washing clothes and scrubbing floors and window white bed She be back to cook dinner and I'll be doing 'ssignments She wake up and make sure that she irons your clothes She put lunch in your bag as she walk out the door She reminds you you're special and you are destined for more A backroom with no bathroom, it don't matter, it's home So you grow and get a loan from university, you get your diploma They call it graduate 'cause you have to wait for employment And then you get an internship like this is it Get paid 5 grand like momma did So the cycle continues We are free, just free from believing life is a prison But the chains are all the way in our thinking See, designer clothes but look how empty the fridge is Guess family is not as important as image And nigga that's what slaves often do Convenience over truth Don't care about winning if they can justify to lose You ain't free until your only boss is you We ain't free until cashiers at Pick 'n Pay smile at black people too We ain't free until Thabo can learn to love again I ain't free until I can give 'em my heart again We ain't free until good people rule parliament We ain't free until Khanyi Mbau is dark again 'Cause black is beautiful A black girls reduce themselves to booty call See the man that you're tryna impress Don't reply to your texts He only loves you when you drunk and undressed Black men that got kissed, black men they're not fathers Side chick gets allowance, ignore baby momma Your kid's friend buys a watch as a Fathers Day present But yours just watches 'cause his father ain't present I make music for him, I make music for them I make music for people who wanna win at the end I make music for loyal people who'd die for their friends After dying, they rise and they go and die for you again I make music for lovers, I make music for pain I make music dreamers, heroes, believers and slaves So I take it to radio and I ask them to play They look straight to my face "You know how much you gotta pay, right?" 5 grand Freedom is the absence of fear and the love of God Discovering your purpose, letting go of what you've lost Forgiving those that hurt you 'cause from them you learn a lot To conquer your emotions and controlling all your thoughts Finding hope at any cost, not to please no human being And to know that jealousy is only there to poison me That's the first real step to being free