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Right Look what mama did with 5 grand Every month is what she gets from white man Washing clothes, scrubbing floors and window wiping She be back to cook dinner And help you do a**ignments She wakes up and make sure That she irons your clothes She put lunch in your bag As she walk out of the door She reminds you're special and destined for more A back room with no bathroom it don't matter its a home So you grow and get a loan for university You get your diploma They call it graduate cause you have to wait for employment Then you get an internship like this is it Get paid 5 grand like mama did So the cycle continues We're 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 n***a that's what slave often do Convenience over truth Don't care about winning if they can justify the truth You ain't free until your only boss is you We ain't free until cashiers at PicknPay smile at black people too We ain't free until Thabo can learn to love again I ain't free if I can give them 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 But black girls reduce themselves to boodie call See the man you're tryna impress Don't reply to your text He only love you when you're drunk and undressed Black man they got kids Black man they not fathers Side chicks get allowance Ignore baby mama Your kid's friend buy 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 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 for dreamers, heroes, believers and slaves So I take it to radio and I ask them to play it They look straight to my face: "You know how much you gotta pay, brah, 5 grand" Freedom is the absence of fear and love of God Discovering your purpose And engulfing what you have lost Forgiving those that hurt you Cause from them you learn a lot To conquer your emotion and controlling all your thoughts Finding hope at any cost Not to please any human being Self-believing that inner will never come from Twitter feeds And to know that jealousy is only there to poison me That's the first real step to being free
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