Album Name

A Seat at the Table

Artist

Solange

Genre

R&B/Soul

Release Date

2016.10.06

Release Agency

Sony Music

And they offered me
a million dollar deal
and had the check ready
Said I wouldn't be able
to use my name
I was fighting my brother
because Man you shoulda took
the million dollars
I said No what you think
I'm worth
If this white man offer me
a million dollars
I gotta be worth forty
or fifty Or ten or something
To being able to make
Forbes and come from the Projects
You know Top 40 Under 40
Which they said couldn't be done
Had twenty records on the top
Billboard at one time
For an independent company
Black-owned company
You know
going to the white lady's
house where my
Grandmother lived at and say
Look you don't have to work
here no more Big Mama
We got more money
than the people
on St. Charles Street
And I I took that anger and said
I'mma put it
into my music
I tell people all the time
If you don't understand my record
you don't understand me
so this is not for you