I've always been a hoods hottest
Real street kid bro I got my hood poppin
Robbed boxes and got my whole hood shottin'
Beef come up but my whole fuckin' hood shoties
Had this whole town under manors fuck the gossip
Police spent a million pounds just to ban me from it
Gang ordеrs put my friends and my family on it
Put my city on the map and no one thankеd me for it
From the home of coke addicts and young alcoholics
Everybody's hurt and they're tryna' block it
Hooked on drugs and they can't stop it
Used to serve 'em on the corner where the SPAR shop is
Banned from town said I can't go back
But I still had my town on smash
Went to war seen my whole town grass
I was tryna' get my whole town whacked
Ask their mum and dads bro if this is just rap
From the front door man got snatched
Tied and gagged and that's just facts
So fuck all raps and fuck the chat
Cos I was 25 before I fucking rapped came home banged straps
And they took me back
And on my own I did it
And on my own I did it
Told em' in prison but pricks didn't listen
Left them gates and won my mission
To put myself in this position
Make the transition convict to musician
Convict to musician
Got myself in the charts won heart with my lyrics
In front of major labels and I'm pitchin' my vision
Came at me screaming bro yu did it
Smashing up his pad watching me on television
Told him it's for us my brother and don't give in
When your in a cell it's hard to stay driven
On the wing with the robbers and the killers
Two hundred dead souls alive not livin'
Screws conspire analyse and listen
I gamble with my life I'm on a tight rope skipping
(I'm on a tight rope skipping)
Someone tell the estate that I ain't changed on 'em
And I'm sad that I got took away from 'em
Committed crimes and I had to pay for 'em
I miss the dirty walls remember wrote my name on 'em
Spar grove that's where I got my name poppin'
That's where I robbed thingy, I ain't name droppin'
Me and Kane plottin' no shottin' straight robbin'
Someone tell the estate that I ain't changed on 'em
Just a peasant from Chedworth Crescent
Smoked weed since the age of seven
Little menace I was skipping lesson
Jumped the gate at dinner Mr Povey stressin'
Harrop was my first school Broadwalk my second
Never made it to year eleven
'Cause I was in the juves reppin'
A wing on the ones in pad seven
This part of Britain ain't great
Teen pregnancy minimum wage
The land of shattered dreams teachers used to say
Steal our star that's how we were raised
Kids sell work before they learn a trade
Child neglect parents' eyes are glazed
And if you're going through the struggle then I feel ya' pain
Just know it's never too late to make a change
And this ones for little Wes
Rest in peace Elaine
And this ones for little L free him out the cage
This ones for cock suckers for keeping me safe
I was young on the run she'd always give me a place
Anytime I was hungry always give me a plate
And this ones for moo man I miss my little mate
Smack needles on the street where we used to play
I'm talkin' about Old Lane Eastern Way
Little Hulton is my town and I'm proud to say
This ones for everyone from back in the day
(This shits for everybody man)