Life's A Beach

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1.	LETS GO 02:58	lyrics	buy track
LETS GO I’m on a legendary hype, Rapping and I’m repping till I die That’s tight LETS GO! There’s no exemption from the fight All that we’re left with is our rights (Alright) They tried to suffocate my scene but it’s summer no fucking around So lock us up you ain’t locking us down Times up you ain’t watching and clocking us now Demonstrating on the street I’m the talk of the town!/ Don’t give me that hopeless voters quotes in interviews Devotion they can use for promotionally confused people isolated scrolling through their socials and the news Get roped into their feuds & end up choking in a noose/ They’ll sail you down the river while your floating in your boots Depressions apathy for winners but it’s potent if you lose Smoking with the crews my way of coping with the blues, The concrete and the ocean is my muse/ Stay away from the opium and booze sodium and juice open toes in shoes I’m getting high on an overdose of truth Don’t be totally seduced by emotional abuse Cause there’s snakes in the grass and theres cobras in the zoos/ Hook LETS GO I’m on a legendary hype, Rapping and I’m repping till I die That’s tight LETS GO! There’s no exemption from the fight All that we’re left with is our rights That’s right (AND SO!) (We keep it moving moving moving woah We keep it moving moving so We keep it moving moving woah We keep it moving) V2/ Like Marvin Gaye said can I get a witness, I’ve got a five letter hit list, and I insist on resistance Which is - why my bodies got antibodies for instance So why you anti bodies in proximity convince us/ Well since this I’ve been living my life, I ain’t ill I ain’t died, there’s no pills to provide I’m a lyrical scribe, drilling into your vibe trepanning into your mind, with satirical rhymes/ Feeling at times life’s short so why suffer a lot Love it or not here’s a secret that the others forgot Like a grave robber I will uncover the plot If you trust the plans they’re cooking you’ll end up in the pot/so Hook
2.	Disgusting 02:24	lyrics	buy track
Disgusting Hook (Disgusting) Everything I see and everywhere, All these random people that are bothering me they’re (Disgusting) I feel that it really isn’t fair, They shouldn’t be allowed to even breathe in the same air (Disgusting) Simpletons, Sycophants People that are insolent idiots I’m sick of this, it’s ridiculous And Downright ignorant (Disgusting) V1/ I’m about to disembark on this train of thought for the dissidents Let’s discuss my disgust while I’m dissing distressing incidents That left me feeling distant like keep yourself at a distance it’s A constant disappointment with disempowered participants/ I’ll disembowl your organs disassemble your ligaments With nothing but disdain for your disproportionate ignorance So called professionals are just barely disguised illiterates I disapprove of decisions taken dispute belligerence/ Dissent is a disease that I’m spreading across the district then Disarm the disengaged with my dissertation on discipline A dissatisfied customer disappear if you’re listening And don’t agree with me I despair of it all it’s sickening/ Hook V2 I’ll tell you what makes me sick, Despicable politics Discretion for hypocrites while they’re slipping dissolving quick We’re the disposable populace so distracted by opulence Disinfect every orifice cause they told you what’s wrong with this/ Disarray of dystopian new displays They’re discussing it by the way You’ll discover this much too late I’m disgusted with what you say/ These distinguished people you pay are patently playing a game Discriminating discreetly so it’s all staying the same/ Disperse and stay in your lane or you’ll be disgracefully shamed The disillusioned complain and get disrespected again Discredited it’s irrelevant somehow yet they’re to blame I feel disgruntled dysphoric let’s disconnect from the mains/ Hook
3.	Chill feat. TRPLA 03:40	lyrics	buy track
Just chill, well that ain’t never gonna come to pass I’m certain like I’m betting on the past Some people looking better in a mask You can keep that shit on the bus a trendsetter and a half the intelligent just laugh,/ Give em half a step and they’re stepping up a yard, A prison architect cause I’m setting up the bars Get waved like Vienetta when I’m charged But I ain’t on the rock like I’m shredding the guitars tell em nah/ Road runner my adrenaline is fast You won’t get me on an eligible charge Stay propelling like a blast They say I’m compelling and I’m harsh, I guess that I’m inheriting the last days of repping for the art/ Are you really ready for the arch Nemesis of monotony I’m venomous at heart Get your generals to march I’ll be severing their parts You should tell em I’m excelling from the start/ Dekay on the path! Rah! They’re all buying what I’m selling em Ain’t nobody else that I’m trying a be better than Tricky on the track see your class I’m ahead of em Get you in a flap you could pass for a pelican/ I’m equipped living large eating venison Bringing you the script like Hugh Grant in the Gentleman Never gonna trip I’m the hardest of specimens Wanna bring a battle then I shut it down like Debenhams/ Hook (TRPLA Verse 2) Hook Just chill, I don’t think I will, They were impressed When I stood still Now I’m on speed But without pills All that I need Is to stay ill but they saying Just chill (X2) V3/ I won’t chill like a beer in the fridge that ain’t the right move I’m the type to type a death threat in Haiku North West attitude melting all the ice cubes Kebab slice you and that’s when I’m in a nice mood/ (Aah!) Got time to Order Thai food while I tie you Up in a tight loop Gimme the beat and I can write to Anything in seconds no second guessing I’m better I pull this off over your head just like a sweater/ Fuck going ham I go pancetta Receiving all the waves like an antenna Cause everybody knows that I’m killing it at the shows I’ve got villainous anecdotes cause I am- clever/ Do you want a battle of the bands? Never Assault and battery me and Triple A gonna getcha They’re telling me I should chill while begging me for my skills Here’s betting I never will give a damn - ever/ ~ Cause I don’t wanna stop I don’t wanna slow I just wanna keep up that momentum, Give it all I got when I’m on a roll I’m a keep it deep perhaps I mentioned I push it to the limit never chilling for a minute I’m in it to win it bringing all the heat until I’m finished Incredible lyrics that burn like medicine spirits Cause My words are never chilled I don’t fan ~ letters/ Hook Chill, I don’t think I will, They were impressed When I stood still Now I’m on speed But without pills All that I need Is to stay ill but they saying Just chill (X2)
4.	Good Intentions 03:21	lyrics	buy track
She was never very far from the bottom of the deepest darkest well you could think of No family job or car the forgotten underclass give em hell have a drink of Anything, yeah anything If she’d been married she’d pawn her wedding ring Cocaine spilled across the children’s bed linen Can’t escape the past she helped it settle in/ My friend Evelyn we shared everything So I knew the secrets and the skeletons When she talks about herself she’s editing Off her head again high on ketamine/ Trying a keep it under wraps like Bedouins It’s Pretty genuine she let the devil in a stream of fellas been giving her medicine Pedalling selling things to all the residents/ She’ll forgive him soon it’s irrelevant In her living room there’s an elephant And you can’t outrun or get ahead of it Whether silver spoon or raised on benefits/ Climbing up that long stairway to Heaven when They shot her full of Lead now she’s a Zeppelin Flying high on massive lows to buy a plastic soul out on these battered roads a veteran/ tell em (Hook) One time, it’s alright Two times, sick and tired Three times, you decide Good intentions never realised Come on my friend we’ll endeavour together I tell ya forget it you never remember Them two little kids need a extra protector Cause all of this shit will upset them forever/ Your sofa ain’t leather that cheese isn’t cheddar they come home from school and you feed them fruitella There’s no silver lining you need an umbrella Or you’re gonna drown in the deepest of weather/ I mentioned the things that I needed to tell her and Evelyn cried and agreed to do better No thieving like beggars don’t need the vendettas Receiving them letters from evil inspectors/ She promised again and again and again I Could tell that she meant it I sighed and relented Even as she spiralled she tried to prevent it Goodbye good intentions denied and repented/ Addictions a circle a cycle cemented The last time I saw her her mind was demented I never could judge her alright cause I get it But she lost it all I’ll remind ya I said it like/ Hook Whatever happened to my friend Evelyn I never heard from her again where’s she been So get in touch and you can tell everything I really hope you got the help Evelyn, For your kids and for yourself Evelyn I know that life ain’t really fair Evelyn I’m sorry that I wasn’t there Evelyn But it don’t mean I didn’t care Evelyn {Hold on, don’t go (She said) Hold on, don’t go (They said) Hold on, don’t go But you said you would stop now you say I don’t know}
5.	Brutalist 03:39	lyrics	buy track
I’ve got the type of eyes to see beauty in straight lines Of power walks and rigamortis solid tower blocks that rise Above the well converted mortgaged types That’s not where I’d rather reside No surprise I’ve been different all my life/ I breathe the city’s fumes into my mind, Walk this architecture blind skyscraper leave those gritty tombs behind The low houses in identical rows with numbered signs Give me some concrete under my toes I’ll run and climb/ Give me graffitied walls and bling that shines, Tacky and glittering goals Keep your clean cuts and bring that grime, A sudden shock of an impression but I think that’s fine, Rapping till listeners fold all their hearts around this thing that’s mine/ Never well polished, I like the faded the jaded my empathy is with those who ain’t made it Who’ve been played and betrayed and lost greatness along the way shit I feel your pain, now live again resuscitated/ (Hook) We stand strong as they’re pressing for change Get rearranged but the essence remains It’s beautiful unusual I’m used to this Unmovable like a block that’s brutalist Smoke outside the cafe with snacks ordered Pie and mash bought it I need a hand to foot the bill no tipping that’s awkward Chatting to my mates about another track sorted Looking in your business like it was a tax audit/ Not gossip just events on the pavement We know the dealers on the benches and their parents that raised them Feeling lucky to be renting in this central location But they want London for the rich and so I’m meant to be saving/ Working hard so fuck the people saying end immigration We’re all mixed into a culture that’s cemented this nation We don’t even see your colour just the ends you was placed in Do the mental equations before you’re sent to the station/ The government ain’t there to give you any representation Take a look at their expenditures expensive occasions As they raise the taxes we should be presenting a statement To prevent legislation that leads to gentrification/ Hook They’re taking, what’s mine We’re changing, in time, They’ll take it, it’s fine But they’ll never get inside my way of life
6.	Treasure 03:13	lyrics	buy track
I feel so sad when I think about, All these bad things we never doubt, How we gonna stop what we’re doing now There’s some things we can live without They’re taking our Treasure... (Sample of David Attenborough speaking) Treasure... Will there be any more animals left? What does this mean for the future of our planet? Well, statistics show the way it goes we’re moving into close Contact with extinction of multiple species didn’t you know, Numbers sinking low Plunder bring the dough Some are thinking slow Cause when they’re all dead where will you go (oh)/ And we’re reacting to David Attenborough saying it’s bad how the endangered animals are being replaced with avatars, From outer Africa to some place out in Canada poachers and native capturers ravaging any challengers/ Closer to home our local streets are paved with abattoirs Farmers create a massacre just for your favourite snack at bars, The natural world is spectacular, Is it too late to turn back from the damage we’ve caused the planet nah,/ But they wouldn’t get the point if they had acupuncture, Literally living off the dead humans are savage vultures The Amazons infrastructure is damaged by agriculture, We’re matricidal if nature’s our mother/ (Hook) I feel so sad when I think about, All these bad things we never doubt, How we gonna stop what we’re doing now There’s some things we can live without They’re taking our Treasure... We’re mass murderers for pleasure, but really we should Treasure... Because they should have known better, each life is like a Treasure... We stain the (planet) oceans with their blood as we’re collecting our Treasure... But we won’t be around forever, (unless we start to) V2/ Treasure each life that’s living instead of killing in a mindless rhythm Seafood on Fridays a nice tradition The money driven fish farms are just a wider prison So put your fork down and try envision/ These aquatic concentration camps rise and glisten Once acrobatic bodies stamped with the eyes of victims, Theres no quality of life in this type of system, If you could understand their cries then would something deep inside you listen/ Forgive em It’s all a lie, the charities ain’t kind of different or even kind Cause they’re set up by the guys that’s fishing, So disguised listen I’m just wishing There was a way to stop their blind ambition/ Cause we don’t need to torture creatures for the right nutrition Participate by omission, write, sign petitions Remember all those dead bodies when the tide has risen And think about what’s behind what’s inside your kitchen/ Hook
7.	Free feat. Rubiix & Faye 03:06	lyrics	buy track
(Hook) Be who you wanna be inside Better live your life come on step outside and vibe with me Live how you wanna live your life Forget all their lies tell em (tell em) Now I’ve realised I’m free Spend your time on the things that you wanna buy Time is a bird open winged and it’s gonna fly On it I no longer feel the need to economise Honest guys, this population has been lobotomised/ You expect me to believe that I’m in danger from disease Just cause a few people are dying it don’t make no sense to me From the beginning I weren’t buying it they’re profiting you see And all the people that’s compliant are just offering the keys/ They passed laws saying that you can’t protest, While you sat in your house thinking Bojo knows best, Some didn’t see their family or invite no guests (mad!) And now they’ve let you out (woo!) hashtag so blessed/ It makes me SICK, the amount of groundless paranoia The government is acting like an actual employer But we ain’t getting paid, they decimated and destroyed the Most basic human rights so now it’s time to go enjoy your life/ ~ Break away for real and trust me Young and alive no time to stay inside yep! ~ You’ll go all the places you need Some will survive the vibe is energised let’s (Hook) Be who you wanna be inside Better live your life come on step outside and vibe with me Live how you wanna live your life Forget all their lies tell em (tell em) Now I’ve realised I’m free V2/ ~ Rubiix ~ Break away for real and trust me Young and alive no time to stay inside yep! ~ You’ll go all the places you need Some will survive the vibe is energised let’s (Hook) Be who you wanna be inside Better live your life come on step outside and vibe with me Live how you wanna live your life Forget all their lies tell em (tell em) Now I’ve realised I’m free I've waited so long inside Feeling I had to hide I'm stepping into the light So now I'm going to live my life...
8.	I'm The Best feat. Barraka 02:39	lyrics	buy track
I’ve got evil intents, like the devil went camping And my feelings intense, tell your fellas stop ramping They’re concealing the sense in demanding More of the wealth that’s expanding I’m gonna pick another pocket get my hand in Modern day Fagin faith is abandoned/ Hook (D) Pop, pop, made another banger Stop, drop, save it for the camera Fuck anyone that ever doubted me now you’re stuck with the knowledge I’m astounding (Jeez!) I was out on streets now I’ve found my peace so look out emcees I’m about to beast I’M THE BEST V1/ Watch me roll up like a giants skin with a suitcase of expired gin, Throw a few pounds on the floor and make you lick quids like nitrogen, You’ll get your just desserts no trifling I’m stifling dumb biased dim Tired men Call me the boss cause I’m higher in The echelons you’ve been climbing and/ Like a vintage car you need retiring I’ll be at your funeral with a violin Case I really only use to put a rifle in Shoot up the mourners and I’m piling/ Body bags up now they need ironing Take a selfie with me admiring A killer whose contract is expiring I’m a monster on a wave you can call me Leviathan/ Pass the rum, why is it gone, glass the cunt, fire the bong I go deep like 45 fathoms straight Throwing words at ya face like they’re hand grenades (Catch!) (explosion sound) I’m a seasoned vet it’s apparent mate All these new pets need to just marinate They’re all drugs and guns and the glamour babes But I got em onside like the notes that I annotate/ It’s been dead let’s reanimate The industry from its barren state Moving massive weight, at a young drug barons rate Cause my abs have a planet shape/ The kind towards which satellites gravitate So I cut down on food when I am awake My cardiovascular issues exacerbate the fact that I love carrot cake/ Fucks sake man Damn it wait, I’m a hungry savage Anyone that wanna test I can fascinate My words lacerate then re calibrate Like John Wilkes Booth I assassinate/IM THE BEST / Hook Barraka verse Hook
9.	Vibes feat. Minx 02:44	lyrics	buy track
When it comes to good vibes I’ve been amped for a while stamping on tiles very high ranking on file, To get a queue they’ve been standing for miles but my dealers on speed dial Andy or Kyle, Ran to them I’ll pick up a couple of fat eighths Standard I smile flip up the drums and the rap bass Living in the rat race is demanding and vile So it’s time to act waved like I swam through the Nile/ I’ve got a heavy flow, period no cramping my style it’s endless, Living for the moment and I don’t pretend bitch Send a couple DM’s to my friends list Are you coming down that’s tremendous stupendous/ Meet me at the block bring a beverage I won’t get pissed Cause I can hack it like that geezer from Leverage D’s on my necklace freed and I’m reckless If you ain’t on a hype then you need to just exit/ I'm in the front in my favourite place Loving the sun and I savour the taste Rum in my cup and the neighbours are saying Hey It’s just good vibes 😎 Minx verse I’m in the front in my favourite place Loving the sun and I savour the taste Rum in my cup and the neighbours are saying Hey It’s just good vibes 😎
10.	Road Trip 02:24	lyrics	buy track
One morning I woke and said to my bloke let’s elope quick Roll a spliff and smoke it Then pack your bags we’re going on a road trip Wouldn’t that be so slick? You and me, leaving the ends to a zone that’s unknown bits/ He said (well, that’d be alright if we had no kids Can’t leave em on their own shit Anyways you’d probably get homesick No I won’t I need a break the kids won’t be alone it’s Nothing that our parents couldn’t cope with/ Couple of quid they’ll babysit we can go split Double your shifts call up that prick give him notice We come and exist here in these bricks what’s the motive No trouble to quit, take holiday pay you’re owed it/ Look at us we’re olders, and we’re only getting older Why’d you wanna own stuff if all of this stuff owns us Freedoms our prerogative I feel it in my bones just Say you’ll come away, couple days, and we’ll go nuts/ (Hook) Set me free beneath the open sky You and I, do or die, You or I, who decides Life is short and time will fly And I can feel time is getting away (Getting away, getting away) Why does our real life just get in the way? V2/ Blue skies I feel multiplied by your two eyes summing me up gunning the clutch till the moonrise The exhilaration of anticipation Kiss me at the petrol station while we’re waiting choke on inhalation/ I’m a drive straight on the open road Smoking dope till our throats sound like croaking toads So engrossed Been comatose but now we’re woken bro Coast to coast Get high but never overdose/ Forget the washing and remote controls, Baking scraping out dough from bowls where are we going to go no one knows You float my boat, sweat till we’ve got soaking clothes What very nearly could be broken grows and ropes us close/ It’s real love no monotony to conceal us It’s real cause After all these years we still feel trust And needs must, So can we make a deal just Say we’ll get away, tell em hey They can eat dust/ Hook
11.	Memories 02:40	lyrics	buy track
You never realise how thin the line is between life and death - until you watch someone take their last breath, The soul is gone but the body is left It’s a shock it’s an outrageous theft/ And yet, as time passes each subsequent day you accept That we should celebrate and pray not regret The ones that have gone away weren’t meant to stay don’t forget, Our own deaths a friend that we haven’t yet met/ How dare the sun shine and people get on with life like nothing happened and the world hasn’t stopped it’s summertime And someone is crying, mourning in white remembrance might - be painful but we all ascend to the light/ There’s no defence and no fight, only acceptance that might Ease the pain the bottomless grief that sends in the night When it feels like no end is in sight, Take strength from the knowledge that it’s all really meant to be right/ Theres no exceptions and there’s no turning back the tide Our family left behind like a track rewinds All the memories inside strike a match for time Blazing like immortal fire always there to re enact the mind/ Safeguards these hidden treasures in us they will live forever Yeah Life is full of pain maybe heavens full of pleasure Or you could reincarnate turn into something better, Whatever you believe take peace from it and just remember/ One day you’ll be carried away, when this finishes So try and be happy today with no bitterness Let the earth and the sky be your witnesses Death and rebirth and all life is magnificence/ Memories never die, tears gonna dry, You’re healing in time and that’s alright, Cause that’s just life Memories never die, the years gonna fly They leave us behind but that’s alright, I guess that’s life
12.	Life's A Beach feat. Anon Music 03:28	lyrics	buy track
I try to live the type of life that I like to teach Sometimes those blue skies are hidden out of sight not reach Feeling like I’ve been drowning deep But the tide comes in inevitably, life’s a beach V1/ I told my brother yesterday, this estate is a rock pool we’re stuck with the starfish The ocean ain’t that far away so don’t wait till it’s opportune make your own path quick, Look how far it’s from the hardship we’ve surpassed it and lasted untarnished Listen one shot one cartridge never was enough for the carnage when sea mines blasted/ Flipping this game like a card trick, I got the drive, so get in your car quick Look up at the stars wish I was on the beach with a large spliff and a hard drink as the ice in the glass clinks/(clink sound) On the precipice of a sharp cliff when I took a dive and my heart skipped, Cause time will erode what the past did Whether writing in stone or in sand with a large stick/ It goes back to the sea again, Swimming in the deep you’re a target It’s all fun and games till the sharks rip through your cartilage and then toss you like garbage You were on shore when you started, And now your unsure how you parted Company with all the safety of home But someday we will have to face the unknown/ (Let’s go) Hook Anon Music verse Hook

about

This is, as the constant listener will know, my twelfth independently released album, and 12 has always been a lucky number for me.

The special thing about this project was that I wrote and recorded all of these tracks in the 9 months while I was expecting my second son Logan, and literally finished uploading them several hours before he was born - it was all very dramatic.

Everything was recorded in my bedroom in Lithos (my usual recording studio at Endell Street was closed due to the COVID 19 pandemic) and the whole experience was entirely different to my usual style of work.
All the tracks are produced, mixed and mastered by my sons father and my eldest son Leon features on 'Treasure', so it's very much a family project. My brother Anon Music also has a feature verse on title track 'Life's A Beach'.

This album is dedicated to my stepfather Ranajit Paul Choudhury, a dedicated father, husband and grandad. He passed away a few weeks before his second grandson was born, so it's been a time of mixed emotions for our family. My mum, brothers and I will never forget you... memories never die.

This is now also dedicated to my father, who passed away a few days before this albums release. Seni seviyorum Baba.
I hope to see you on the other side, when time has no hold on us, we are young again and all is forgiven.

Life is short, so enjoy it people. If there’s one thing I’ve really been reminded of lately, it’s that.

To everyone I’ve loved and lost; on behalf of everyone who love you still;

We will always keep you in our hearts.

credits

released August 6, 2021

Life's A Beach

All tracks written by Dekay

All music produced by Dean Garon

Recorded in Lithos Road Estate

Featured artists have written their own verses where credited