Chapter 16 (feat. Kano)

[00:12.13] Wagyu on the 52nd floor just to take the piss
[00:14.60] And somehow we've had to deal with higher stakes than this
[00:17.58] You're the reason that I take the risk
[00:19.25] Had me on your tour team, I studied you since I was 14
[00:22.42] I wanna know, what life was like in your teens
[00:25.00] We shared dreams, and even when we shared screens
[00:27.45] I couldn't get no face time, I got questions like
[00:29.71] How'd you do it?
[00:30.48] Do you have regrets?
[00:31.11] Like, what's your life like?
[00:32.26] See mine is like the sun setting, pray the moon shine, it's the prohibition
[00:35.78] No ignition, ran for two parties, it's the coalition
[00:38.30] Rum and Red Bull
[00:39.07] Like Max Verstappen, but the race is different, taste is different
[00:41.61] It's adult dancers in my poll position
[00:43.33] Young'uns dying like they saved the game and could reload the mission
[00:46.21] Wearing jewellery, heard they plotting on me when I walk my ends
[00:48.61] It's South London, something you can't teach
[00:50.39] Streatham Common sense
[00:51.30] Eating healthy cah we trust our guts more than we trust our friends
[00:54.05] Many frauds, lotta man fake, lotta imitators
[00:56.85] Innovators, take that shit to heart like defibrillators
[00:59.25] Pap, pap, pap
[01:00.05] Mothers shed tears and don't sleep for days, weep for days
[01:02.68] And killers celebrate with I.D parades
[01:04.72] Then you got this scene I face
[01:06.22] And this pressure I inherited from you, it sounds funny, but it's true
[01:10.13] I loved you on the big screen, but bro I want you back
[01:12.58] Cause what acting gained with you, we done lost in rap
[01:14.83] You got a lot of years ahead of you
[01:16.80] Some years will worsen you and some will better you
[01:19.02] If it's not positive drop it, the street's residue
[01:22.13] But keep a piece of yourself when you're selling you
[01:24.58] This game ain't for the throne and Kings are checkable
[01:27.37] It's to be a better you, envy's inevitable
[01:29.85] And please take pics with your friends, cause I'm telling you this
[01:32.59] Industry attention will sever crews, and a sip turns to an addiction of the jealous juice
[01:36.33] Till they diss you again like you ain't fed 'em food
[01:38.07] But if you whip Cullinan's 'front of desperate youts
[01:40.26] You christen a Benz then the devils due
[01:43.35] Dems the rules
[01:45.23] You made it, lay in it, this bed ain't new
[01:47.06] But let's keep it true
[01:47.74] You know you're reckless with Patek's and jewels
[01:49.70] Flexers do what flexers do
[01:50.76] And steppers do what steppers do, beef
[01:52.57] Looking over your shoulder every time you turn keys
[01:54.91] 'Bout turn the other cheek, must a man be the bigger man
[01:57.98] I know he strap the fire, but that's the mass of giants
[02:00.25] These B.S'ing
[02:01.01] Take it on the chin, you're an Aston buyer, and I'm biased
[02:03.53] But my generation got the classic writers
[02:05.51] Your gen, it's mostly your pen, you're the rap Messiah
[02:07.87] You and Simbi
[02:08.59] Go grab the accolades that they would never give me
[02:10.79] But that's another story, I ain't goated for the glory
[02:13.09] Couple trophies in my storage, poor me
[02:15.32] Ivor Novello don't rate a man, so be it
[02:17.93] I was in '03 on the mic getting lordy
[02:20.58] You think you would have flourished in my era at 140
[02:22.75] It's great to break jollof with you, swap knowledge
[02:25.65] But sorry I didn't make no time back at Troxy
[02:28.20] I watched your soundcheck that day I saw promise
[02:30.89] Then I came to your O2 show, I saw polish
[02:33.52] But during all the pyrotechnics I was pondering like
[02:36.39] Do you have family politics and problems
[02:38.95] Can you ever see you when you're just someone's wallet
[02:41.52] Have you ever smelt when a cousinship turns rotten
[02:43.71] Tell me, do you ever hear from your brother and start sobbing
[02:46.42] Tell me, have you ever touched a million and felt offish
[02:49.29] Tell me, have you ever tasted victory and didn't want it
[02:51.87] Those five senses will make sense to true bosses
[02:54.55] I got a sixth sense for knowing who's truly from it
[02:57.34] Bond Street donny, I know what the same cloth is
[02:59.71] I know what the game offers
[03:01.35] Raise boffin, bake off in, the sunshine till I lay in coffin, legacy
[03:07.70] Would they remember me Dave?
[03:10.28] Well, I guess we don't know
[03:11.67] That's why we wake up, go get it by ourselves
[03:13.68] And I'd love to tell you yes, but bro I question that myself
[03:16.04] Health, wealth, happiness, all somebody really needs
[03:18.78] And some water I could give to my seed
[03:21.02] Heart cold like Courchevel
[03:22.36] Core Chanel tortoise shell
[03:23.86] Glasses that I bought this girl
[03:25.01] Toured the world
[03:25.76] Love, I can't seem to find it
[03:27.45] This the shit I do for women, I don't even like 'em
[03:29.93] Bro I need some guidance
[03:31.18] Aight bro, I ain't no, relationship advisor
[03:33.84] But all of this defence won't make you striker
[03:36.59] God loves a trier
[03:37.93] David loves a lyre
[03:39.04] But even a harp's half a heart, so how could cupid fire
[03:41.98] Aye where she from this time, do your ting bro
[03:44.25] Every time I see you - new ting bro
[03:45.94] Cuz you don't date, you Duolingo
[03:47.83] Aye, big bro, I don't know where you got that info, but that wasn't me
[03:51.38] I need that in record and in writing
[03:53.25] But still, I love the game it's enticing
[03:55.45] I moved out West and it's nice, and these days what you driving
[03:58.07] Your lifestyle bougie, lifestyle bougie, I used to push a silver Porsche with two seats
[04:03.12] Now the Max Cosi baby seats in the SUV
[04:05.71] You know I've been Naij and I never had egusi
[04:08.11] So blood, what was you eating
[04:09.34] Fried plantain
[04:10.36] You ain't had the pepper soup G and it's plantain but trust me, that's all Gucci
[04:13.92] Listen, I was in Jamaica having cow foot soup
[04:16.02] In the middle of Greenwich like I'm a real ghetto yout
[04:18.73] Touched uptown Monday and my killy's garn shoot
[04:21.61] I don't fuck with the ganja still l'm billing up a zoot
[04:24.08] Got I'm feeling like, I must
[04:25.73] Really have, eyes in the back of my
[04:27.73] Head, Range Rover television
[04:29.33] The interior Red
[04:30.68] Fell asleep in the whip becah it feel like a bed
[04:33.25] I just wanna give thanks for this life that we
[04:35.59] Mic check one, two, free school dinners
[04:38.04] Now we sacked off the Saxa for sea-salt living
[04:40.60] I'm go-funding to bring back peaceful villains
[04:43.07] Cah all these 38 years - that's evil sentence
[04:45.68] Like I don't love you no more
[04:47.68] Dave, I used to be married to the game
[04:49.71] I'm a husband - no more
[04:51.04] All these SM7B's ain't for us like before
[04:53.77] Mike Billy Jeaned on that, they just discuss couple wars
[04:56.26] And they short change us
[04:57.66] Paper chasing the is all good till it's the divorce papers
[05:00.01] Newspapers, court papers, they all ride my wheels
[05:02.94] They gon' talk about your won'ts till divide your wills
[05:05.53] That's how family feels
[05:06.87] Growing up so fast
[05:08.62] 26 feeling like our lives on timers
[05:10.85] Lines in the face, she getting fillers to hide it
[05:13.58] And hoes lying 'bout their age like Nigerian strikers
[05:16.23] Sorry, waiter, can I get this food in containers
[05:18.80] Had to move it was dangerous
[05:20.06] Seen beautiful places
[05:21.46] Bro used to have braces, now it's my driver that's on a retainer
[05:24.71] But that's just testament to God and his favour
[05:26.69] And bro, I wanted a favour
[05:27.97] Let's see each other more, catch up and make beats
[05:30.49] Cah the fans they miss you, I know the fans they miss me
[05:33.21] Let's make a track about this dinner and the stamp you gave me
[05:35.60] And base it on the book of Samuel - call it Chapter 16, if you're down
[05:40.52] So who's gonna get this one, then?
[05:50.19] That's cool
[05:52.36] So what's her name?
[05:54.82] Nah I'm just fucking with you just do your thing man, but trust me don't overthink it
[06:00.23] It is what it is, if it's gonna be something, it's gonna be something
[06:03.85] But I know you, I know what you're like - you're thinking 5, 10 years down the line
[06:10.70] Day at a time
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