Featuring Olu Ase
HOOK
What is the price of a slave to you?
War equals commerce, what you gonna do?
Buy For A Dollar and sell it for two
Let me show you how they make this money move
Verse 1
They built banks off the backs of the stolen and sold
Sailing souls to the coast
while they plundered the gold
London got richer
so did Lisbon and Spain
Ships full of Black bodies
Being trafficked for gain
Wall Street was a market
we were part of the stock
Insurance on a slave if he died on the docks
Factories in Manchester
burning sugar in the pot
While the cotton from the South
made the looms never stop
Triangular trade game
they was movin’ in sync
Rum to the coast
then it’s bodies in the brink
Then sugar back to Europe
did exactly what you think
Got rich off the whip
now they toast with a drink
Generational wealth off generational pain
They washed dirty money in imperial rain
Now they rockin’ suits
tryna act humane
But the root of their riches?
Still drippin’ with shame
[So tell me]
HOOK
What is the price of a slave to you?
War equals commerce, what you gonna do?
Buy For A Dollar and sell it for two
Let me show you how they make this money move
Centuries in bondage is what they went thru
Blessings to the ancestors that never got they dues
Buy For A Dollar and sell it for two
Let me show you how they make this money move
Verse 2
Now they tell us, “Forget it, that was way back then,”
But the profit still resides in the banks of men
Old money got roots in the cotton field graves
While we inherit the chains
they inherit the gains
Reparations ain’t a handout
it’s balances due
Tryna tax the pain
like Eternal Revenue
We built nations …
gave culture & gave soul
But got redlined, confined, denied of every goal
They looted the Motherland
split it in sections
Left behind famine, war, and a debt collection
Now they gatekeep the world that we architected
Sell us our own image
then it’s copyright protected
But we gods in the flesh
still rise through the fire
Took chains, made chains
now our diamonds inspire
From spirituals to rap
we flipped pain into gold
Turned tragedy to triumph
Let the truth be told
[So tell me]
HOOK
What is the price of a slave to you?
War equals commerce, what you gonna do?
Buy For A Dollar and sell it for two
Let me show you how they make this money move
Centuries in bondage is what they went thru
Blessings to the ancestors that never got they dues
Buy For A Dollar and sell it for two
Let me show you how they make this money move
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