Hate Me Now

Narration by Koname Florah Mphahlele

INTRO

I Am Mas

You can hate me now

But I won't stop now

VERSE 1

Don't hate me, love is the language I speak

Some would like to actually see Mas anguish in grief

Nightmares of reality ending tragically

Overnight success don't happen magically

Lavish dreams don't cost much of an imaginable fee

I engage rationally and live passionately

Don't player hate fashionably

Hate the game that I love

A man of character, life's a movie, playing my part

My name and the art, as separate apart

Things change with a charge

And fame is drug

I came from the dust

My brain was carved

And shaped in the mud

The destiny of stars

Riddled with envy and lust

A mile in my steps and toes

They'll decide to turn they souls

Diamond in the ruff

In the grind and dirt there's gold

There's a lesson in the journey of life

As was destined we'll gladly arrive

No person was hating with pride

In the seconds I barely survived

Wrong answers or fairly as right

Dawn is passing, early I rise

Mourn the friendless and family that died

My cause that I seek for the cross that I bleed

It cost me a piece as the course of my peace

In the eye of the storm, there's sun and the rain

A patient, dark with no aid in the rush of my pain

That could only be described by a brush and a paint

Goddess Son, in the shame felt the touch of her grace

Behind the story there's a life

If it's lofty there's a climb

There's his glory and her shine

Years in Jozi for the grind

Man I'm only getting mine

I ticked that as marked with a kiss and hug

Hate is a myth in a hut when you addicted to love

The easier job is to be a critic and judge

The home of crime, title deeds of a thug

Walked through fire, and learned at a degree of my scars

Quench my thirst by swimming deep with the sharks

CHORUS

You can hate me now

But I won't stop now

VERSE 2

I make a difference that counts and count the change

That's the instant of counter shame those around come strange

Aim for the opportunity, it found one in range

Paid my dues with credit, it left me in debt

All the time that I wasted, the second he spent

Twice bitten by those a landed a hand

Once was asinine, and ended that turn

Hate on demand still under provision

Life as great as it spans attached to contradictions

Added layers of rejects with adjusted meaning

Left more detached in darker suspicion

The pastor is swearing

How insulting a sermon

Curses summed up with blessings

Face value isn't much impressive

Go beneath and under the surface

Faithful walk in dangerous storms

Double-edged razor and sword

Accept the praise and the scorn

From the grave I reborn

With a new name and reformed

Great and evolved

Exclude me from where hate is involved

Pride killed many while beating their chest

Lies breed envy from the secrets she kept

Miles trip anyone's feet that is swept

Many would lie be aware

Who rely on you fear

Some booing right in the cheers

Wishing you might disappear

But I’m blessed truly as I'm here

Purified by the tears

CHORUS

You can hate me now

But I won't stop now