5 Grand

[00:10.55] Right

[00:11.62] Look what mama did with 5 grand

[00:13.73] Every month is what she gets from white man

[00:15.60] Washing clothes scrubbing floors and window wiping

[00:18.26] She be back to cook dinner

[00:19.85] And help you do assignments

[00:21.45] She wakes up and make sure

[00:22.77] That she irons your clothes

[00:24.10] She put lunch in your bag

[00:25.42] As she walk out of the door

[00:27.01] She reminds you're special and destined for more

[00:29.15] A back room with no bathroom it don't matter its a home

[00:32.33] So you grow and get a loan for university

[00:34.72] You get your diploma

[00:36.06] They call it graduate cause you have to wait for employment

[00:38.98] Then you get an internship like this is it

[00:41.36] Get paid 5 grand like mama did

[00:43.49] So the cycle continues

[00:45.09] We're free

[00:45.88] Just free from believing life is a prison

[00:47.74] But the chains are all the way in our thinking

[00:49.86] See designer clothes but look how empty the fridge is

[00:52.53] Guess family is not as important as image

[00:54.91] And nigga that's what slave often do

[00:57.04] Convenience over truth

[00:58.63] Don't care about winning if they can justify the truth

[01:01.02] You ain't free until your only boss is you

[01:03.41] We ain't free until cashiers at PicknPay smile at black people too

[01:07.13] We ain't free until Thabo can learn to love again

[01:10.05] I ain't free if I can give them my heart again

[01:12.43] We ain't free until good people rule parliament

[01:15.10] We ain't free until Khanyi Mbau is dark again

[01:18.02] Cause black is beautiful

[01:20.93] But black girls reduce themselves to boodie call

[01:23.32] See the man you're tryna impress

[01:25.19] Don't reply to your text

[01:26.78] He only love you when you're drunk and undressed

[01:28.91] Black man they got kids

[01:30.23] Black man they not fathers

[01:31.84] Side chicks get allowance

[01:33.16] Ignore baby mama

[01:34.49] Your kid's friend buy a watch as a fathers' day present

[01:37.15] But yours just watches 'cause his father ain't present

[01:39.54] I make music for him

[01:40.86] I make music for them

[01:42.19] I make music for people who wanna win at the end

[01:44.59] I make music for loyal people who die for their friends

[01:47.24] After dying they rise and they go and die for you again

[01:50.69] I make music for lovers

[01:52.01] I make music for pain

[01:53.61] I make music for dreamers heroes believers and slaves

[01:56.00] So I take it to radio and I ask them to play it

[01:58.93] They look straight to my face

[02:00.25] You know how much you gotta pay brah 5 grand

[02:04.77] Freedom is the absence of fear and love of God

[02:08.23] Discovering your purpose

[02:10.62] And engulfing what you have lost

[02:11.68] Forgiving those that hurt you

[02:12.74] Cause from them you learn a lot

[02:13.80] To conquer your emotion and controlling all your thoughts

[02:16.19] Finding hope at any cost

[02:17.78] Not to please any human being

[02:19.38] Self believing that inner will never come from Twitter feeds

[02:21.77] And to know that jealousy is only there to poison me

[02:24.70] That's the first real step to being free