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