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1. |
LETS GO
02:58
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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
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2. |
Disgusting
02:24
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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
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3. |
Chill feat. TRPLA
03:40
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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)
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4. |
Good Intentions
03:21
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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}
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5. |
Brutalist
03:39
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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
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6. |
Treasure
03:13
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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
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7. |
Free feat. Rubiix & Faye
03:06
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(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...
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8. |
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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
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9. |
Vibes feat. Minx
02:44
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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 😎
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10. |
Road Trip
02:24
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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
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11. |
Memories
02:40
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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
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12. |
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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
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Dekay UK
Dekay is an underground rapper from London, England, who has been writing, battling and freestyling for the last twenty years.
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