| Been shot, been stabbed, we know how they both feel
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| Been rich, been poor, we know how they both feel
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| They’re fake but acting so real
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| I’ve been knee deep in the trenches
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| We spent most our lives in jail
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| Cause we don’t speak when police ask questions
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| Mandem mad to see progression
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| They’d rather see you broke and stressing
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| They wanna see me put my mic down
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| Grab my mask and load my weapon
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| First I ask God to protect me from my enemies tryna get me
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| Then I started losing my bredrins
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| Thank you God, I get the message
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| It’s a cold world, oh well, let’s crack on with these coke sales
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| Let’s crack on with these grows
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| And pray our nosy neighbours don’t tell
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| I feel sorry for our old girls and the stress we put them through
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| My mum buried her favourite son
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| When I heard the news I couldn’t move
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| What do I say? |
| What do I do?
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| Regardless, nothing will bring him back
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| I miss you bro, I blame myself becah the more I let you down
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| I wish they left you in the can and the feds never let you out
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| Rather visit you in a jail than have to bury you in the ground
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| So I’m sorry mum, sorry dad, sorry Joe, sorry Ant
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| Sorry sis, sorry Steve, see you soon, roger that
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| All the family miss you, all the mandem miss you
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| I’ve got a couple of scores to settle
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| Then I’m out and coming to visit you
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| I’m more comfortable around killers
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| Than I am when I’m round civilians
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| We do equal splits when we lick it
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| They’re ungrateful so they keep whingeing
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| And money can’t buy you happiness but it can buy you a fancy car
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| Rather be sad in a Lambo than be sad on the back of a bus
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| But I made my bed, I’ll lie in it
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| If he’s with me then I’ll ride for him
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| Being a boss is tiring, all the sacking and the hiring
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| I’m from Newham and it’s violent here
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| A lot of man are dying here
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| Friends will stab you in your back when you ain’t looking
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| So keep your eyes on them
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| We ain’t never had no guidance
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| That’s the reason why we’re reckless
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| We’re either battling with our enemies
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| Or we’re battling with depression
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| And I know that God protects me
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| But I can’t move without my weapon
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| Cause he’s let me down before
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| My enemies left me on a stretcher
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| So I stay with it
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| I’m on the edge, don’t play with me
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| Underneath this drip I’ve got this P.T.S.D. |
| stain on me
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| The struggle and the pain on me
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| Mum don’t cry, just pray for me
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| It was us that shot the block up
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| But it’s them man that are claiming it
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| Fuck you friends that changed on me
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| You fell off, now you’re blaming me
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| Now the same mandem that ate off me
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| Are the same mandem that hate on me
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| It’s a fake game and it ain’t honest
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| I said it’s a fake game and it ain’t honest
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| And I’m knee deep in the trenches, tryna make it out
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| I let my actions do the talking, I don’t make a sound
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| He’s showing love but hates on man
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| Now he’s tryna shake my hand
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| With that same pair of hands
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| He used to try and take me down with
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| After all the things I did for you
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| You only talk about them things I never did for you
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| I ain’t perfect but I’ve been loyal
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| You diss me then you say you’re loyal, blud that’s disloyal
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| And teamwork makes the dream work
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| But that can only happen when everyone in the team works
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| And no one gets to eat first
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| When we eat, we eat together
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| When we starve, we starve together
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| Smile, cry and laugh together
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| I’m keeping it moving
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| Opps got me loading Russians, I’m feeling like Putin
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| I need to stay around the mandem that help me improve
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| And stay away from man that find a problem in every solution
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| And here’s the rapper starter kit
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| Write about the hood even if you ain’t a part of it
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| Put some tattoos on your face, shoot a vid and dance in it
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| Put it on the net and probably chart with it
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| I couldn’t count how many times that I got counted out
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| I went from counted out to counted on to help the mandem out
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| You told the ends that you’re my hitta
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| But you’ve never banged for man
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| People only knew you cause you hanged around with me
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| And don’t push me, I ain’t scared to drop out everyone
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| And if I lose my hood pass I’ll just buy some extra guns
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| Bulletproof my whip and roll through any hood, like fuck 'em
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| And I know a couple friends wanna kill me innit |
| But you know you can’t cause you know you still need me
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| That’s why I keep you close but I keep my distance, fuck 'em
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| It’s a dog-eat-dog world, it’s survival of the fittest
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| And it’s kill or be killed, I’m from a violent little city
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| Man take kindness for a weakness so I have to hide my feelings
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| I felt bad when I robbed my man but I acted like I didn’t
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| As a kid I never had much and neither did my neighbours
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| We used to run around with holes and tears in all our trainers
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| We didn’t know about designer cause our clothes were nameless
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| We weren’t jealous of each other cause we had nothing to hate on
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| Then all that started changing when we started making money
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| Shh was making more than shh so he started moving funny
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| Then we started getting hungry, friendships turned into business
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| Them man used to be my friends but then became a competition
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| We used to share the same vision, same plans, same mission
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| Then the money broke us up, Take That and Robbie Williams
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| We was friends that moved like siblings, now we’re oppositions
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| I would’ve killed an opp for him
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| Now I’m the one that wants to kill him
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| And they’re the ones that wanna kill me, this life’s been real G
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| Trap money looking filthy, clean guns, we turn it filthy
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| We were shooting but not filming, the ends turned into Baghdad
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| Homes turned into bandos, good kids turned into badman
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| When guns went bang bang
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| Man dropped like a Santander account bank scam
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| Shots fired like we sat man
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| I ain’t from Brum but we slash man, cut his face with a kitchen
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| Try diss my G-Unit, now he’s got a buck fifty
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| I’ve done things I can’t talk about
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| I’m from a hood you can’t walk about
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| «Mum I want them Nike trainers»
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| «Nah son we can’t afford all that»
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| So I started doing a paper round
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| Then my friends started to call me Pat
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| I got paid five pound a week for that
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| And I gave my mother all of that
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| And I grew up in a council house
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| Inheritance? |
| Cancel that
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| I got it from the mud and broke that cycle, I’m a landlord now
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| My kids future, that’s all patterned now
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| Me and Steve just went and grabbed a car
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| Brand new Porsche 911, all black like the Panther cast
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| Hold on, wait a minute, you thought I was finished?
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| When I was buying all them houses you thought they was rented?
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| I’ve been round a lot of snakes that I thought was my bredrins
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| I’ve been taking L’s but they weren’t losses, they were lessons
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| I hit rock bottom, I had to level up
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| I got knocked down, I kept getting up
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| I’m in the crop house full of smelly bud
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| And when I chop down I might sell you some
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| And you’re all about when the bread is up
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| But you’re not about when the bread is done
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| So I dropped out and hit everyone
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| Because you opt out when the pressure comes
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| Them man are broke because you sleep too much
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| I can’t sleep unless my P’s are up
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| I need to feed my son and daughter so I’m shotting
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| While you bruddas are moving bricks and smoke the profits
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| Half of you need to stop it
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| Even after all the losses blud I’m still winning
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| Even after all the pain I’ve been through I’m still grinning
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| I’m in the trap with more bricks than a builder’s yard
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| There’s no space for furniture cause every room’s filled with plants
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| I’m from Newham where the grillers are
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| The armed robbers, top shotters and some killers are
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| I done a move and robbed fifty large
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| Dylan wasn’t there and I still give him fucking half
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| You’re team ain’t as real as ours, we’re calling the shots
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| Not just one of us are on it blud, we’re all on our job
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| They’re just talking a lot
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| But when it’s action time they quieten down
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| I dropped out D cause he wasn’t on riding out
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| Birds keep flying out and money keeps coming in
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| And feds just kicked the door off so we need to rent another crib
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| The man I’m getting money with’s the same man I ride with
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| We clap man and drive off smiling
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| You won’t see me hiding unless I’m on the run from the feds
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| I keep my .45 greased in case man come for my head
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| If you see me popping bottles in the club with my friends
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| We ain’t slipping mate, we’ve come here prepared
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| We’ve got something for them |