96 Of My Life

(album: Grime MC - 2019)

Man was trapped, in the ends
Man grew up in the streets where you see your olders get slapped, in the ends
Can't forget the first time when Bally rolled tru' with a strap, in the ends
Mum had to use the water filter on the tap, in the ends

So when I got a little P fam, I was like, "Brap!"
Had a Nokia 7110, and it had WAP
No colour screen, they didn't rate the mandem on TV so I used to think
"I wonder what Bushkin and Harvey look like"
I was in the rain, upside down pushbike
Fixing my chain, man was too young to go to the raves, I was Junior's brother
He was DJing, if he went radio, then I would stay in and tape it
Had no lyrics, so I would fake it
Stand in the mirror and mime
Before grime, never had a voice
Grew up in Tottenham, I never had a choice
But I wouldn't change it for nothing
Every other day see the mandem scuffing
After school?
Roll Wood Green, with Shorty man will cotch at Tops
Guys getting battered outside the shops
Man would stand and watch, like Herb Dean, peak
And you could say karma came round for me
'Cause when man got jumped in the streets, man stood and watched, like TV screens
Before my face was bait
Catch man on Fore Street on skates
Powerturbos, [?] two tones with cheese blocks, powersliding up the place
The loudest guy at social events, I speak my mind fam I'm not sitting on the fence
After the time Bossman went pen, man went anti-social again
I spent student loan on Mumzy's rent
Didn't buy notebooks but money got spent
Off to Uni I went with no P's, had to do my first year again
I didn't take my driving test until two thousand and rassclart seven
But I was driving to Uni from big '03 with no licence, don't try copy me
After man paid the student fees, I went to Jetstar and pressed my CD's
Boy Better Know editions 1 to 3, man just about scraped a degree
"Graduation day, where were you?", that's right Jme didn't pass through
Badman don't need no ceremony, like Ryu on Street Fighter 2
I'm sure graduation was nice but I was getting reloads in Club Ice
Little did I know that them reloads right there was gonna have me set for life
Back in the ends man needs to make P's, driving round to record shops all week
Shotting them vinyls, shotting CDs, Uptown Records man was shotting them tees
We can never be on the same page, fuck labels, fuck a radio play
I put out my album, done my own tour, I wore my graduation gown on stage
Never had a job in my life, never had a job in my life, say it twice like Tempz
I put a hundred thousand miles on two of my cars driving to events
Fell asleep on the M1 couple times, woke up 'cause of the bumpy white lines
Got girls tweeting me telling me to come to their hotel, but I'm going home to my wife
Move that in [?] and in with EZ, fuck FIFA man used to play PES
Got love for my day ones, so you can't see me in T, without the Prez
Man's still like brap, man's got the P90d nah fam it's a wrap
17-inch screen, mandem scream when the light goes green, seen
Been a misfit since school, take intelligence, make it cool, truss
Mum asked why I went vegan, and I said, "'Cause you didn't raise no fool"
That's why man's still independent, still unsigned
Labels holler me and I'm like, "Why?"
Jump online, free and follow me just like the Prodigy manna start fire
So stand back and watch the ting burn
Done bare work to help my team earn
Never gonna stop, I put in a thousand 50p's it's always my turn

All my life
Doing this all my life
All my life
Doing this all my life