I was 12 years old spitting to a webcam mic

Sock for a pop shield 20 takes just to get that right

Probably the worst of the mandem and I’m still letting fly

Really couldn’t pack it in, the love wouldn’t ever die

Filling up books with bars, dreams of getting hooks from stars

30 man circle clashing man up in Ruckery park

Man was looking moves and I was cooking hard

Must of writ a thousand verses till I was f***ing hard

Still growing up

Now the ends started showing love

Told me that I’d soon start blowing up

But I just did my thing was never one to listen

Sh***ing on my opposition couldn’t see no competition

Went through things like we all do

But never capped in my raps it was all true

Yeah, shame this game aint got no walk through

When me and Tristan was itching to make you listen

We weren’t in it for the glory

That’s why we deserve the glory

Yeah, yeah

Was never in it for the glory no

You’d know that if you knew my story

I was hoping on the M1 to reload

So when they handed me a dream I couldn’t see no evil

Blame it on the alcohol and weed smoke

Hungry to win

I got a taxi from Birmingham to Heathrow

Flew to the States big studios and big egos

Big everything but I can’t see no real people

They had this British kid rapping like the Migos

Could have carried on living that lie it wasn’t me though

I lowed it but they had me stuck in a cage

Numb from the rage I was feeling f***ing insane

I still love the music but no love for the game

My lawyer was snookered still I had to cover her pay

A broke bloke in a hole I need a shovel or spade

So that’s what I did grafting to live I felt like running away

But there was nowhere to go I had to find my soul

I was sick of all the mirrors and smoke

I was bumping into fans while I was chiselling stone

They couldn’t believe it that energy was giving me hope

I’m reconnecting

Took it back to local

Doing it for you lot hope you hear it in these vocals

Think it was the lockdown that made us anti-social or more so than we already was

So now it’s time to come together how we’re supposed to

And things will come together how they’re supposed to

We weren’t in it for the glory

That’s why we deserve the glory

Yeah, yeah

Was never in it for the glory no

You’d know that if you knew my story

We weren’t in it for the glory

That’s why we deserve the glory

Yeah, yeah

Was never in it for the glory no

You’d know that if you knew my story