96 of My Life

Man was trapped, in the ends

Man grew up in the streets

Where you see your olders get slapped, in the ends

Can't forget the first time when Bally rolled through

With a strap, in the ends

Mum had to use the water filter on the tap, in the ends

So when I got a little P, fam, I was like, "Brap"

Had a Nokia 7110, and it had WAP

No colour screen, they didn't rate the mandem on TV

So I used to think, "I wonder what Bushkin and Mighty look like"

I was in the rain, upside down pushbike, fixin' my chain

Man was too young to roll to the raves, I was Junior's brother

He was DJing, if he went radio, then I would stay in and tape it

Had no lyrics, so I would fake it, stand in the mirror and mime

Before grime, never had a voice

Grew up in Tottenham, I never had a choice

But I wouldn't change it for nothing

Every other day see the mandem scuffing, after school?

Roll Wood Green, with Shorty man will cotch at Tops

Guys gettin' battered outside the shops

Man would stand and watch, like Herb Dean, peak

And you could say karma came round for me

'Cause when man got jumped in the streets

Man stood and watched, like TV screens

Before my face was bait, catch man on Fore Street on skates

Bauer turbos, sim two tones with cheese blocks

Power-slidin' up the place

The loudest guy at social events

I speak my mind, fam, I'm not sittin' on the fence

After the time Bossman went pen, man went anti-social again

I spent student loan on mumsie's rent

Didn't buy no books, but money well spent

Off to uni, I went with no Ps, had to do my first year again

I didn't take my drivin' test till two-thousand-and-rassclart-seven

But I was drivin' to uni from '03 with no license, don't try copy me

After man paid the student fees, I went to Jetstar and pressed my CDs

Boy Better Know editions one to three

Man just about scraped a degree

"Graduation day, where were you?"

That's right, Jme didn't pass through

Badman don't need no ceremony, like Ryu on Street Fighter 2

I'm sure graduation was nice, but I was gettin' reloads in Club Ice

Little did I know that them reloads right there

Was gonna have me set for life

Back in the ends, man needs to make P's

Drivin' round to record shops all week

Shottin' them vinyls, shottin' CDs

Uptown Records, man was shottin' them tees

We can never be on the same page

Fuck labels, fuck a radio play

I put out my album, done my own tour

I wore my graduation gown on stage

Never had a job in my life

Never had a job in my life, say it twice like Tempz

I put a hundred thousand miles on two of my cars drivin' to events

Fell asleep on the M1 couple times

Woke up 'cause of the bumpy white lines

Got girls tweetin' me, tellin' me to come to their hotel

But I'm goin' home to my wife

Moved out of mum's and in with EZ

Fuck FIFA, man used to play PES

Got love for my day ones

So you can't see me in T (Without the Prez)

Man's still like, "Brap"

Man's got the P90d, nah fam, it's a wrap, seventeen inch screen

Mandem scream when the light goes green, seen

Been a misfit since school

Take intelligence, make it cool, truss

Mum asked why I went vegan

And I said, "'Cause you didn't raise no fool"

That's why man's still independent, still unsigned

Labels holler me, and I'm like, "Why?"

Jump online, pree and follow me

Just like the Prodigy, manna start fire

So stand back and watch the ting burn

Done bare work to help my team earn

Never gonna stop

I put in a thousand fifty P's, it's always my turn

All my life

Doin' this all my life

All my