| Sometimes I gotta' sit back or spend the whole night
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| Playing over all the events throughout my whole life
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| Childhood, adolescence, teenage, adulthood
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| All the memories, experiences bad or good
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| The pain, the hurt, the triumphs and the jubilations
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| From broke pockets to big bank remunerations
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| The transformation of communication
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| I’m in the studio working, I ain’t trying to leave the consumers waiting
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| I’ve seen people close disappear, people toast this my year
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| Then repeat the same the same old song
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| I just sit on my perch while I’m putting in the work
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| Shaking my head, like how they play the game so wrong?
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| So I made more songs, sharpened up my writing
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| And strike like a billion volts of lightning
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| And roll like I’m a Knight from dark ages
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| When I try my best and get it wrong I make some sharp changes
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| Black and gifted, still some worry bout' these dark faces
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| I’m not surprised when these world leaders racist and judge you on your pigment
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| Accuse em', it’s a figment of your imagination
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| So now I step with some next type of navigation
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| Huh, I got my sword and my shield
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| And I’m skilled, so I’ll be the last standing in the field that’s for real
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| When I make a beat or write a sentence
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| I do it with the kind of energy we call relentless
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| Straight… I felt that
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| And for the last couple years fam I fell back
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| Cah' I been through hell, felt trapped like a snail
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| Tried carrying this world on my frail back, still I can’t be held back
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| It’s deeper than rap, can you tell that?
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| It’s all authentic, this world’s tormented
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| Still I said I’d world tour and I meant it
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| Me and DL we both grew up in the trenches
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| Hackney the ends is, the memories and friendships
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| The foundation where everything got cemented
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| That’s why we’re relentless…
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| Yeah, but nuff times I’ve been friggin' stuck
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| You know the times when everything was fucked!
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| And no labels weren’t picking up
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| Still I weren’t giving up
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| Just like DL and that’s why you have to big him up
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| I scanned the barcode of life and checked the price
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| And saw the crap, rolled the dice then broke the ice
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| And took a studio device and made prototypes
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| Teach an entire generation how to hold the mic
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| And pimp the game like Dolomite, cos' this a different kind of hustle
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| I’m straight def like Dante, Jermaine, Russell
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| And what’s left is brainpower, the main muscle
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| Can power punch you with each hand, that’s eight knuckles
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| I make my talents multiply like in the parables of Jesus
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| And I just need some music, some apparel and some sneakers
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| Decide what I decide without me having to give reasons
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| And treating everyday like it’s a fight to keep my freedom
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| They say the revolution won’t be televised
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| That’s why the population’s favourite time is ten to five
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| So I don’t really care about your enterprise
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| You got stocks and shares, I got rhymes to memorize
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| So I don’t have to blink twice
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| I saw you the first time and I’m cool like drink ice
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| There’s a war going on outside no man is safe from
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| They killing Generals down to a dude they took a chain from
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| So I got my sword and my shield, and I’m skilled
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| So I’m ready and I’m standing in the field that’s for real
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| When I make a beat or write a sentence
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| I do it with the kind of energy they call relentless |