By Trevor Makonyonga
“We now know who are the land barons. We now know who have benefitted. We now know which people in the government, in the political parties and in the private sectors we no know,” these are the words of President Emmerson Mnangangwa which are followed by an outcry.
The outcry being a series of questions and emotional breakdowns by rapper, Karizma in his touching new release titled Already.
Samples from Beyonce’s song of the same title, Karizma managed to capture the grief and fury that has bled many souls in the country, putting them all in a two minute track.
Speaking to Bustop TV, Karizma outlined the motivation behind his new track.
“The freestyle is called Already and it’s inspired by the new Beyoncé single which has the same title. I used her instrumental. The personal emotion behind the lyrics is confusion disappointment and anxiety, I feel like I laid it all bare on the song. Blessings.”
‘Already’ first asks questions regarding the health care system in the country. Karizma attacks the need to buy expensive cars whilst doctors are not paid and people are dying because of dilapidated health facilities.
In the song, the rapper asks, “Why the doctors ain’t not been paid already? When ministers are buying guys car, new range already. VX already new S already. We dying outchea who do we text already.
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The song the questions journalist, Hopewell Chin’ono’s arrest. He quizes why he was in jail for exposing corruption whilst those exposed were out walking freely.
Karizma then, in all boldness, suggests that maybe someone is content with all the corruption that is taking place.
He raps, “Why is Hopewell being jailed already? When he is doing the cos you failed already. Feels like someone wants corruption to prevail already. You’d have to live it to believe this scary tale already. How is he to blame already? He ain’t tell a single lie but he is in chains already. Can somebody explain already? It’s like the villains walk free it’s insane already.”
The song quizzes the catch and release syndrome that has for long crippled our society. Also tackled is the law and order situation in the country.
“Put some minister in jail but it’s the same already. Catch and release has been the game already. Law and order up in flames already. We joke about it but it’s lame already. Coz I know you the trend already. You know how it ends already. In no time we see the same big wig. Riding round the streets in his Benz already.”
He ridicules the need to build a bridge and a statue in honour of Mbuya Nehanda when babies are dying in hospitals. He then talks about how people are furious and how they cannot take it anymore.
“I swear Nehanda make rain already. Babies dying at your hospital it’s pain already. They busy building a bridge in your name already. But they couldn’t save the kids lives it’s a shame already. How much can we take already? Like an we get a break already? Sometimes you think it couldn’t get any worse. But it’s a new rock bottom everyday already.”
The last part of the song is probably the most essential as it directly confronts the government and politicians.
Karizma lays down the struggles of joblessness, hopelessness and crime that the youths have to go through as the times are becoming more dire by the day.
Promises made are questioned, integrity is also questioned and finally there is hope that maybe someone will hear the cries of the masses.
“I thought you said we free already? You said you’d give us what we need already? Then mechanised amongst yourselves so you could eat already. Meanwhile the youths are famished on the streets already. So make it make sense already. Graduates can’t afford the rent already. Zimbos 30 plus living with their rents already. Madhara angu sh** is tense already . I know a lot gon need to steal or they gon starve already. I know a lot goingon need to heal because we are scarred already. I need someone to hear with regards already. We need solutions sh** is hard already.”
Karizma managed to lay down the cries of the land in a two-minute piece and the hope is that those in influence policymaking listen to the song and act accordingly.
