Not Like Before
(专辑: Nature's Greatest Mystery - 2011)
[Intro:] Not like before We're gonna tell a
little story It's about me, about he, about we Not like before Yeah yeah, take me back, the
owls [Leaf Dog:] Man I
only went to school to sell weed at lunch time Two gurners on the
tarmac, crushed up fine Losing my mind, sniffing lines. No attendant sign Made the
habit mine of any drug I
could find All I
knew about was crime until I
dropped a
few shrooms Made a
few tunes, me and BVA coming real soon And then it dropped, and nobody listened Lost but not forgotten was the
beginning of this mission I
used to be living on the
floor with Freddy T
One of the
reasons for the
malnourished Leaf that you see He gave me the
PC, I
used to make the
beats 'for this CD Got passed the
torch from Is and Cool G
Much respect for that, and highfocus is the
future Z, I've got your back, no shotty in my backpack! Got my queen, no need to chase rat, your behind While I
slowly take over the
map Wheres the
owls at? ah! [Fliptrix:] Many things have changed since the
old school days Running 'round on train tracks, sprayin up the
trains Picking up an eighth bag to blaze it in a
day Now I
smoke a
little less, but its indie kush haze I'll take you back for a
lesson Way back to the
Brixton mass' open mic sessions Avarice spotted me, thought that I
was repping Then we met a
little later at the
speakers road in mecka He took me to a
studio in Queens Road Peckham Recorded force fed imagery it seemed that it was destined I
ain't seen him in a
couple years, but cause hes still my bredrin Can't forget about the
man who put you in for a
second Like verb T, certified G the
mic veteran. Runone Blessed me with beats from his collection Got mad nice on the
decks at every damn event son Whores and cash, have your back, we rinse up the
shows n' that Supported R.A the
rugged-man. That was classic fact Reminisce reminisce. Remember lacing tunes with' Chemo up in Brixton lab Then he moved it down to white chapel place. Was nang Late nights was rammed, man it went to plan Since then I'm high-focused on the
prison fam Make music move units stay repping that Make music move units stay repping that [BVA MC:] At school I
never used to go and stay at home high That stoned in zone guy, the
same and you know why Then college, I
wasn't really concerned with that Mainly went to sell ten pound sacks, and chase rats Dropped out and went back, but I
still wasn't focused Started rapping on beats about how we be the
brokest For lost but not forgotten then there was world war three Then the
war ended and we still hadn't dropped the
CD But now things are different cause kids still pump and listen To the
CD that we give them three years ago on the
mission Still leave the
page written, hit the
stage with our spitten Got a
contract and learnt how to make our shit thicker Cleared our own path like a
snowplow Gained the
know how on how to get exactly where we want And never go down, and now we're that storm on your horizon With more tracks laid down than a
fifty year old whore That's still riding [Verb T:] Yo it started back, when I
heard Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh I
was eight used to play the
vinyl when I
dub cassettes I
spent my teen years weeded out past high With Gang Starr Wu-Tang tribe and the
Pharcyde I
can't lie, I
was shy hittin open mics as a
kid But the
studio I
was smashin it I
had my first record out I
was eighteen Touring with phi life cypher for that was like a
day dream Shedded my innocence then started to grow wise Grow flow wise I
hooked up with low-life Got some guidance and applied it, had confidence With Kashmere and Ghost toured the
country and the
continent But still I
had to keep a
nine to five to keep the
bills paid And quit the
weed just to try and keep my mind alive Sixteen bars is not enough time to write my entire life This is just one installment Now I'm a
proud father, grown responsible Learnt over years hate kills love conquers all So I
look to the
future after stepping back Make music move units stay repping that Make music move units stay repping that