The Journey

Please don't have to make me go into detail

When I say I came out of my dad's hole

Now I'm in a race with these tadpoles

Speedin' through the fallopian

I need to beat all the rest of these babies

Mum had a positive pregnancy test last week

Two months down the line, I've got a heartbeat

But I got a piece of skin between my legs man, I can't be a daughter

I'm breathin' but I'm in a bag of water

Foods coming through my umbilical cord

The year's 1-9-8-2

I can't wait to make my debut

I hope I got one of them good mums

Nineteenth day of the ninth my day comes

I finally come out after hours of tryin'

The nurse slapped me, then I started cryin'

Couple hours later, I'm in a incubator

A bit bigger than a A4 sheet of paper

Loads of people kept comin' up to me and sayin', "Goo-goo-ga-ga"

Why can't they speak to me properly?

I'm a celebrity, get me out of here

Mum don't forget your Lucozade, flowers and your grapes

These giants keep comin' in different sizes and shapes

And talkin' to me like I'm from the Planet of the apes

But it don't matter, I got the X Factor

Even Simon Cowell knows I'm the best rapper

We left mother's hospital, went to the flat in Old Street

Then my mum got cold feet

We had a problem

I kept climbin' on the window sill

So we moved to a house in Tottenham

Got chicken pox so we went to the surgery

Couple years past, picky skin fade in nursery

Sittin' in class, playin' with Fisher-Price tools

Two-two's, I moved to primary school

I went to the school next door to Northumberland

My piece changed from a little hot dog into a Cumberland

Ready to feed it to the big chicks

Secondary school, I was a bad boy in English

If you listened to Jungle, you was top boy in form

Then all of a sudden, some new music was born

I need to

Have a name or something

This Machino Joe shit ain't the one man

What should I change my name to?

I need to be a king in this or some kinda like wizard or something

Yeah, yeah

A sceptre (Sceptre)

A sceptre (Sceptre)

Yeah, Sceptre on the mic

Nah-nah-nah

I have to change the spellin' on that, wait, wait

S-C, no

S-K (S-K)

E (E)

S-K-E-P-T-A

Skepta (Skepta)

Skepta, yeah, that's me blud

Skepta

What

(Big boy soldier)

(Skepta, Skepta, Skepta)

S-K-E-P-T-A, yeah

(Serious, big boy soldier)

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