Music : Thomas Mackenzie Bell/Ashley Thomas
Big up the badboy track.Yeah yeah, oi we're getting hype tonight, big up the dancers.Made mistakes in life, no regrets gotta live with that, no DJ can't spin it back,no refunds can'tbring it back, people don't wanna see you grow, always bringing up this and that, stand in mytruth I live in that, when man's in their feelings give dem facts, helped man when they were ontheir face, when they're down they were giving thanks, when they're up wanna shit on that andforget gotta cheek I'll give em that, cross man once then that is that, once mans trust is gone,then man's trust is gone you're unlikely to win it back, man's unkindly to sycophants, man's inHollywood gettingbank, ayo, it used to be Scratch-Bashy-Scratch-Scratch-Bashy-Scratch-Ba-Scratch-Ba-Ba now man's spitting crack, whipping this whipping that, wrist is this, the crib is mad,at the time couldn't picture that, I thought I'd be dead by 20, life when living black, I wrote blackboys at 21, no it wasn't a hit or smash, but that shit be sounding like some sort of premonitionnow when you listen back, I wasn't in the kitchen whipping crack, wasn't on the mains with thewap, I wasn't going cunch and in the trap, frustrated I was feeling trapped, I gave CVs to JD Sports,I gave my CV's into GAP plus more not one of them hit me up, drove the bus Ruislip to Mill Hilland back, Mill Hill and back, Mill Hill and back, Mill Hill and back, Mill Hill and back, I could'veswore down I was going mad, one time got so tired crashed, I grew up in a council estate a littleflat, didn't even have enough space to swing a cat, no matter how rich you get you ain't forgettingthat, even if they use the Neuralyzer from Men in Black, they were many times when I never hada grand, now when I buy sutten nice I feel bad, traumatised by the times when I never had, thenreminded I'm a n***er every level that I'm at. It's more money more options, more money morenonsense, more money less trivial shit more complexed problems more money more, look, moremoney more yo, more money more watching, more money more wanting, no one gave when Iwanted, survivors guilt on my conscience, so I give but I was still broke when Dizzee made Bonkers,going bonkers, my account in minus, I was at the cash point drawing out fivers, you got no ****ingidea how that time was, man were getting theirs, I'd been grinding for years, I was wonderingwhere mine was, mum was sick she had death in her breast I was thinking whymine God? hadto go through this to get to there, go through that to get to here, only answering to God, don'teven answer questionnaires, cut from different cloth I'mself-aware, I've conquered issues,conquered fears, it took blood, sweat, loads of tears, but I've believed ever since I wore the B'sin my ears, I got my white mates like, core blimey Ash, you're doing well mate ****ing 'ell, dreamscan come true that's Gabrielle, **** the dough I do it for the culture just to do Top Boy I turntdown M's like Dave Chappelle, you can ask my agent Craig Shapiro, you can ask my agent DeborahWilley, my integrity ain't for sale, sometimes you just gotta take the L, that could've been a majorfail but wasn't, the next year I made double to that shit you gotta have big bollocks, that's whyI'm in first class my legs then spread out eating olives, I'm a council flat yout in a tracksuit butthey greet man, Mr Thomas, ain't gotta show it if you got it, pay myself that's a selfie, no pictureskeep it modest, Damon Idris with this profit, I built this shit me, Brick By Brick, that's what beingon Job is, no Freebies make em pay, pay respect and pay homage.Ladies and gentlemen this train terminates here. All change please.