Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Born and Raised, artist - Goldie Lookin Chain. Album song Original Pyrite Material, in the genre Рэп и хип-хоп
Date of issue: 03.10.2019
Age restrictions: 18+
Record label: Records
Song language: English
Born and Raised |
All the things I learnt from Newport |
Always twice as fast a three o’clock in the morning so no one can jump you |
Always be prepared and always have a laugh |
I tell you what I like Wildings at Christmas mate |
I grew up in Newport in the nineteen eighties |
Hanging by the castle with all my mates |
Sparking up a spliff in John Frost Square |
Puking on ourselves coz we just don’t care |
Drinking so much booze you get covered in shite |
Stella Artois to Diamond White |
Learnt all my lessons being from Newport |
I’ll always remember all I was taught |
I think back and I remember well |
Buying underage booze in Baneswell |
Drinking on the corner taking amphets |
Sharing a pack of ten cigarettes |
Over Maesglas on the BMX track |
Was the first time I tried squidgy black |
We’d get a chase from the police |
Causing trouble and disturbing the peace |
There’s loads of things that you can’t be taught |
Unless your born and raised in chikka chikka Newport |
There’s loads of things that you’ll never see |
Unless you grew up in the NPT |
Ridding round the streets playing with my toys |
Avoiding the Youth Firm and the Rodgy Nutty Boys |
Going down the County Saturday afternoon |
Making a draw yogurt heated up on a spoon |
Adam and Dipper would come round my house |
We’d drink ten cans and then we’d go out |
Have a fat spliff on the way into town |
Try walking in the Murenger without falling down |
Remember when Zanzibar was Brooklyn Heights |
Getting chips from Boomers and dodging fights |
Hooking up with the crew after school |
Go up Mister Cues to buy weed and play pool |
Big up to Walshy and 38 Double D |
Now that shit’s just a memory |
Seeing the colours on LSD |
Smoking soapbar with Phil Sasha and Lee |
We used to kick it in town on a Saturday |
Come back from Hitman with tunes to play |
Can’t remember much of what went on |
I think about it now but most of it’s gone |
I think back and reminisce |
Checking out the girls I wanted to kiss |
Then it’s on to the park chilling on the swings |
It’s amazing how you remember these things |
There’s loads of things that you can’t be taught |
Unless your born and raised in chikka chikka Newport |
There’s loads of things that you’ll never see |
Unless you grew up in the NPT |
I use to pick asparagus so I could get paid |
At Very Hill Farm out marshfield way |
I never saved any money always spent up all my cash |
Often swapping it with Tony and with Willis for some Hash |
Seven fifty for a teenth fiver for a gram |
Get acid in the Trout Vaults never drank in the Talisman |
These are things I did as a teenager |
No Instagram or mobile just a BT pager |
Down by the statues with the crew felt like a star |
Two pound fifty for half a pizza from Newport Fish Bar |
Was you a Sweaty or a Townty were you torn |
Didn’t care much for Ritzy’s but I did Grooves Platform |
I tell these stories like biblical psalms |
Like that time that Giles Sports had a visit from John Barnes |
Remember Barkers Chippie Jeans on display |
Or Universe in Magor when Sasha DJed |
You know these days might all be in the past |
But fucking hell son I had a proper fucking blast |
It was like a shit version of New York |
But like a good shit version of new York |
There’s loads of things that you can’t be taught |
Unless your born and raised in chikka chikka Newport |
There’s loads of things that you’ll never see |
Unless you grew up in the NPT |
Riding on the scramblers down the train tracks |
Playing pitch and toss on the wall outside the Halifax |
Shooting up the soft kids with my black widow |
Newport taught me things when I was just a kiddo |
Up to Brecon park to have a fight |
Rolling up a blunt but no ones got a light |
Fiver in the machines at Megabowl |
This is the way that we use to roll |
Go to registration to answer my name |
Then I’d go to Rileys for a few fucking frames |
Sneaking in the pictures with a straw and rifle shots |
When I got older it was draw and micro dots |
Learnt all my smarts in my home fucking town |
Always playing up always acting the clown |
Getting up to mischief but never getting caught |
And I owe my education to my Home in Newport |
This ain’t a Hip Hop story from Brooklyn or the Bronx |
When your born and raised and been port for yonks |
You got tails port knowledge for laughs |
Killer whales and dolphins in Maindee Baths |
But I was west side Aston Stores and Johnseys |
Vicky wine Garrads Shobaraj alonzi’s |
BMXing through Brynglas |
Delivering the ad mag when I could be assed |
Tosser Thompson nicking from the Smiths warehouse bins |
Stories of scraps in the Boileys and the Quinns |
Garry Evans for maggots fishing with Cliffy |
Dallas Sue Ellen how I got my first stiffy |
Half a coke at the tavern turns on the rope swings |
Striming idlers in the chippy that became my thing |
Then the lights and Lasers led the way to Zanzibar |
80s Newport nipper turned to 90s fucking safe spa |
There’s loads of things that you can’t be taught |
Unless your born and raised in chikka chikka Newport |
There’s loads of things that you’ll never see |
Unless you grew up in the NPT |
Yeah you knows it makes sense |
Fucking 80s 90s 2000s all the teens |
All the fucking shit 2020 70s all the fucking ages |
Billy Webb fucking rocking it for the GLC innit |
Yes you knows Ayingerbrau Pils use to have all of that |
Anyone who’s had the fucking boot |
Anyone who’s had a yard of ale down Dippers |
You fucking knows your safe |
Newport 1980s fucking loves it Almo’s |
Or going over to fucking Stuart Jones to get some football boots and some |
dubbing |
You fucking knows it makes sense |
Wicked fucking Billy Webb |
Goldie Looking Chains fucking knows it |