Refuse to Lose

I refuse to lose

I refuse to lose

I refuse to lose

I refuse to lose

Another day in the city, you can hear the sirens scream

Many races in the places I have been

Gotta get away from skyscrapers

Here they hate us, yet they ate us

Simply read, the words the world said

The soul you stole came straight from the dread

And yet you sing the blues, but I bring the news

We can fight tonight in the ring you choose

'Cause I'm sick of you holding me back

The modern folk but you only seem black

I'm intelligent, born from the elements

You own my people, a heap full of sediments

But I don't need nobody to give me nothing

Open the door and I'll rush in

The choice is yours, which will you choose?

I refuse to lose

I refuse to lose

I refuse to lose

I refuse to lose

I refuse to lose

At first not a curse, what's worse for a brother?

To go for yourself or live with a lover?

Fame's the name of the game, it's all the same

As Big Ray, the one or Lady Tame

And you choose to go like Romeo

You can do this then please show me bro

It was a chance for you to kick a strong rhyme

But I caught you real short at the wrong time

And your girl made you kick lies to me

And now you never know what you might have been

For a brother that once was my homeboy

He's very silent now, he makes no noise

He left the force and took the course north

I knew he was a rapper 'cause his voice was crazy hoarse

Peace my brother, you paid your dues

But I gotta keep rolling on, I refuse to lose

I refuse to lose

I refuse to lose

I refuse to lose

I refuse to lose

Battles are fought everyday by my cohorts

Enrolled to the fold and told to take no shorts

Walk the street, you seek to get dissed

Hard for a brother to even exist

Hold your handbag yeah get a good grip

I'll waste you, taste you, face you with a wood stick

That's just what you think of me

I'm black so that's what I've got to be

Known I'm a rap star, no not a track star

I don't win medals, my thoughts go back far

Things I read gave me an attitude

Now you see me, I'm black and rude

Can't be helped 'cause a brother's a payback

If you live here you know why I say that

And I won't be standing at the back of queues

I refuse to lose

I refuse to lose

I refuse to lose

I refuse to lose

I refuse to lose

I refuse to lose

I refuse to lose

I don't rhyme in cockney, that shit'll stop me

You talk like the son of a man who's trying to jock me

Don't like jheri curls, thoughts of a better world

No blue contacts, not even to get a girl

Not English in this to win this

Not British, that's just offended

This kingdom, that's what we bring them

Give me a rope so I can swing them

High from a tree, it was you who lied to me

In your music we you try to be

But it's a rap thing, one of the black things

Zoop, Balooc, or is it Maxine?

I can't tell, but they can go to hell

Take the men from Shell as well

Tell your minister, I'm getting sinister

Told you once homeboy, I'm in it to

Cruise with who I choose to un-confuse

The blues for those who screw, I refuse to lose

I refuse to lose

I refuse to lose

I refuse to lose

I refuse to lose

I refuse to lose

I refuse to lose

I refuse to lose

I refuse to lose

I refuse to lose

I refuse to lose

I refuse to lose

I refuse to lose

I refuse to lose