Knife crimes is near a record high

With more than forty blade offenses every day in London

At a youth club in South

London not far from where someone was stabbed less

That twenty four hours ago

The outline to direct link

Between violent crimes social exclusion and austerity

A study by City Hall found that

London has seen an increase in 71 in victims of serious

Youth violence since 2012

The Mayor says this is linked to an increase in poverty

And the highest rates of violence

Take place in some of the poorest boroughs

Look I bet them boys think I'm panickin'

Check what my young Gs are carrying

His blade same length as a javelin

I don't know about B ball or what's happenin'

But know that it's f**ked if he travellin' and we see him

I can't lie I was depressed at phases

I was nineteen when the team nearly left him faceless

Hopin' that we never left no traces

You know when you're so d**n tired in your house

But you can't sleep 'cause you got pendin' cases

I used to love temptin' fate but now it's temptin' faces

For half my career I was part of that

My best friend got a burner and it's lookin' like an artifact

Put it in your puffer or your Prada hat

Like f**k panic that's a heart attack

Yeah it's like life so f**ked in the time that we're in

We're fightin' the world and we're fightin' within

Somali dad ran away from a war

Now his son's in a war that's the cycle we're in

I know n***as that didn't do time in a bin

That have never had freedom of mind are you sick

'Round here main way to provide for your kin

Is in a flick blade little push bike and a sim

In London a place where it's nicer to live

Is only five minutes out from the guys on the strip

Where man make yay' work heard he's a soldier

I know that n***a hasn't got balls like Grey Worm

As I grow older change of perspective

I gotta stay loyal to my girl

That's the trait she was blessed with

Restaurants raves with my bredrins

Life's too short so we gotta turn up

Man talk on my ting for the 'Gram it's intrusive

I never really thought 'bout taking a life

'Til I found out my ex girl's dad is abusive

I felt How could I be man and not do s**t

I'm on the way there now and I don't wanna lose it

But fightin' her battle's only hurtin' the girl

How can I protect her from the world

When I couldn't even protect her from myself

On my grandmother's grave s**t happens again

I put a knife through a family friend

Most the women that I know had s**t happen to them

So innocent 'til guilty ain't somethin' I have to respect

I think back to my youth and I was so ungrateful

How many of our parents had dreams

They abandoned so they could put food on the table

Intelligent worthy and able that's somebody's parent

You know

And that affected the way that I see s**t

Night club toilet you peed on the seat

'Cause you don't know how it feels

When your mom's gotta clean s**t

And her boss treats her like she don't even mean s**t

And she gotta wait for the bus in the rain and it's freezin'

And Mrs said that you would never be s**t

And you don't wanna cry about dad but you need him

I grew up so f**ked but I didn't even deep it

I'm numb to the feelin' of grievin'

And man gettin' birded

African moms on the floor just screamin'

It's mad cah I try so hard

Death's got to be easy 'cah life's so hard

I was twelve wishin' that I was a white man hard

Cah if I was then they probably wouldn't life mans darg

I was dead broke fam I couldn't swipe mans card

And time might pass but I still gotta stay with it

It wasn't his beef but I see him try claimin' it

That's why he caught a bullet with another man's name on it

Now he can't do leg day or put strain on it

Every time you hear me freestyle I put pain in it

I used to wonder Does God have favorites

Touch me it's dangerous I wouldn't play with it

'Cause you can go sleep

And have a different type of wake for it

I miss my dawgs unstable

You violate Chris

Then rah turn Chris Benoit

Have him hit from far nah

Fill 'em up with bricks and glass nah

My young Gs will grip then blast

Have you tried in the street

F**k findin' my feet

I could ride but it's better when I'm ridin a beat

My emotions are peak it ain't a sign of defeat or the weak

I would've ****you then cried in my sleep

Dropped just two racks and told them Buy the machine

I'm LeBron in Miami I provide for the heat

God strike me if I'm lyin' I ain't cryin' in this beef

Unless the tears comin' tatted on the side of my cheek

I provide for my peeps the Lamb' white in the seats

So I'm literally a wolf disguised in a sheep

You have five figure dreams I have five figure sleep

Five hours more than enough time that I need

Man want a fair fight but I ain't on it when I see him

F**k honour this revolver is onomatopoeic

Let it Stut tut tut tut tut tut ter when you see him

Free Scalez Free C and free my n***as 'til I see 'em

I wouldn't wanna be him

My old Gs roamin' I don't need a coliseum

You see it

So I'm playin' it good let hood politics stay in the hood

F**k the internet you see this new generation

The Insta beef and I ain't into speakin'

When I duck down

I had him runnin' in a lift like he missed a meetin'

There's no good reason to risk your freedom

The yutes dem snitch and b***hes sneakin'

She don't wanna talk 'bout friendships

She just wanna deal with the pipe like I'm fixin' leakin'

And sleep with a legend like Chrissy Teigen

Where I'm from the word Life has a different meanin'

Man smile in your face but them n***as schemin'

Try involve me in a flakey dealin'

Sistine Chapel I'ma paint the ceilin'

I been violated and I hate the feelin'

That's why nowadays man hates the preachin'

We smile in the visit 'cause we ain't defeated

The Supreme Court's where my mates appealin'

I can't breed that girl that's torture

South London it's just slags on the corner

And influencers tryna bag them a baller

She a gold digger I can tell from her aura

Her socials say princess she a pauper

When it's time for it need more for my daughter

Call me a talker

But man are gettin' lined like lambs in the slaughter

It's life threatening and I can tell from the borer

Cut through a n***a like a knife though flora

Feds got the guys on a case and they stalk us

It's conspiracy like tinfoil hats and a new world order

Touch me better have a life insurer

Blood thirsty I got sharks in the water

And trust me I know a killer whale no orca

Have you ever seen a nightmare brought to life

Where I'm from you get cheffed on a normal night

Men talk on my name but it's porkie pies

I really put it in a prick like a porcupine

Little bro wanna save for a 45

Go board a flight there's more to life

Yutes on the M6 all the time

We don't need TFL for a northern line

All the best politicians been taught to lie

Where do they buy c*****e when they're snorting white

Are their dealers safe or on the borderline

It's ironic 'cause we don't where to draw the line

Man see Blue Story they're mortified

Man see Scarface and it's glorified

'Cause when you're black everything gets scrutinized

That's why they call it Urban it gets euphemized

South London man are gettin' euthanized

I see a yutes demise I wasn't too surprise

He got soaked but his right hand scuba dived

Don't die by a sword that you used to shine

You can drown for your king you don't know about Ophelia

Cah we got iron I don't know about anaemia

I took the hard road we don't know 'bout the easier

One bag of whores and d**g paraphernalia

When ends got sticky had a flicky with Emelia I mean Olivia

This ain't Libya this ain't Syria

You act sillier we let it seep in your skin like Nivea

Who wants to be a millionaire

I won it

Never done a gameshow or trivia

I done Wandsworth Erlestoke visitor

I done Springhill Grendon Swinfen

Whitemoor Swaleside Brixton visitor

I done M way trips done s**t that I wished I never did

Becah I could have been a prisoner

Is this the s**t that appeals to the listeners

Road ain't no amazing life

The ends full of snakes and jails just a waste of time

I tell my young Gs Take your time

F**k Jazz you can really see a major nine

Yo I'm so ashamed of how I used to get figures

Man sell you a dream like the road tings lit

And then they leave out the parts

Where you're burying your n***as

Or in jail wonderin' who's puttin' d**k in your Mrs

I'm so f**kin' determined

I was in intensive care

When I was born mommy fell down the stairs

Whether I was gonna live or not was somethin' uncertain

I used the word Fell with the commas inverted

You see growin' up I had it far from perfect

But nobody did so I'm a normal person

I gotta be grateful we all have demons and all see angels

Or maybe it's me

A black yutes more than a face on a screen

A number on a laptop or name on a sheet

We got stories to tell and got places to be

From my heart that's the makin' of me

I was really about to lose

I sat on my hands

I struggled 'cause I didn't want to suffer again

I just wanted didn't wanna make my son upset

I went to

I tried so much we have no strength

I was in detention counsel for months I didn't give up

I was not even twenty when I left Africa

I was determined to survive

I was determined to survive

I didn't have anybody nobody was ready to help me

You was six weeks old this is when we left from Africa

I was on the streets for three years

Nobody let me eat nobody in this nation

I couldn't pay my rent gettin' deported

I didn't give up I carried on everywhere