(+1 rating, 1 votes)Track 6 from Doc Brown’s Citizen Smith Vol. 1. This is quality UK Hip Hop sampling all British vibes: the Beatles and Klashnekoff. Doc takes you on a tour of…
SAMPLE:
THE BEATLES & KLASHNEKOFF
- In my life
- Wickedness is all that I see around me
- In my life
- I'm tryna walk a straight path
- But they dun say it's hard
VERSE 1:
DOC BROWN
- My generation talk of money and ice
- They want it all, but they don't wanna learn, read, study or write
- It's like, see rappers flossin'
- I don't care what they spend
- I'm going shopping for food and tryna pay rent
- Needing bucks for them utility bills
- 'Cos to get you heat cut is enough to give you the chills
- I'm bringing the real deal not a fantasy
- Still it has to be said that I'd rather be livin' happily
- Ever after instead of disaster
- Half the youths don't even know which breder's their father
- Boys becoming men without the men around them
- And when men are around them they're breaking in someone's housin'
- I came up out the cracks of the pavement, my life is real
- Despite that I ain't the type to steal
- Think it's very rarely right to kill
- And the mic is still
- The only weapon that I like to feel
- In my firm grip, learnt this from other wordsmiths
- Who roamed the Earth before the Hell fire burnt it
- Early, even before Tottenham turned mean
- Toxteth, St. Pauls, race riots in Burnley
- Everybody's crazy and somebody will get it
- I stress it, even if Nas already said it
- 'Cos man are acting like it ain't happenin'
- But we always bring it to the surface - that's the power of this rap thing
CHORUS
VERSE 2:- Rappers like me don't always break through
- 'Cos we dedicate tunes to something you can relate to
- I don't know no one wearing platinum fronts
- Rolling through the hood on twenty inch rims
- Ain't happen once
- But I know about riding the trains
- Taking the bus
- Plus I know about hiding the pain
- Making a fuss
- Packing my shit and having to move
- Like when my mum started cracking the whip
- I started rappin' for food
- Then I learned to make cash in more ways than one
- Without crime or government time paying me none
- Don't watch me, I'm relentless
- If I'm rappin' Sundays, Mondays I'll fund raise for young offenders
- All my life my eyes been on the grime
- Like a target that people wanna sweep under the carpet
- The so called rotten eggs, bad apples of the bunch
- But that's why our music pack a little punch 'cos...
CHORUS
VERSE 3:- Got educated so I break down the system and over stand it
- So if there's a twisted bigger picture I know who planned it
- My peers cuss me, sayin, "Jeez don't study"
- Call me sell-out because I'm tryna be somebody
- Saying, "Look, if you a rapper you can't chat that shit"
- "What?"
- "That Martin, Malcolm, Mohammed, flat shit"
- "Shut up man"
- "You need to keep it real, keep it gangster like me"
- "Why?"
- "So what's the matter Doc, too much time with wifey?"
- Nah listen up, save all that talk for someone who give a fuck
- I got avenues, big plans man, different stuff
- As for you, when all of your rapping shit dry up
- You'll be in the greasy spoon cooking my fry up
- I'll tell you something straight from the heart
- Don't let a man try and make you think that you should feel ashamed to be smart
- How are we gonna be embarrassed of that
- Just 'cos I read a few books doesn't make me an aristocrat
- I'm listening out for classical rap
- Getting opinions on what it's like to try and be a man if you're black
- I feel like every album's lacking a track
- Positive, peace, purpose, progress, what happened to that?
- 'Cos...
OUTRO:
- In my life
- Wickedness is all that I see around me
- In my life
- I'm tryna walk a straight path
- But they dun say it's hard
- x2 + SHOUTOUTS
- In myyy life
- Woah! That's gangster
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