Where You From

They'll ask you where you from

Like, where you really from?

The question seems simple

But the answer's kinda long

I could tell 'em Wembley

But I don't think that's what they want

But I don't wanna tell 'em more

'Cause anything I say is wrong

Britain's where I'm born

And I love a cuppa tea 'n' that

But tea ain't from Britain

It's from where my DNA is at

And where genes are from

That's where they make my jeans 'n' that

Then send them over to NYC

That's where they stack the Ps 'n' that

Skinheads meant I never really liked the British flag

And I only got the shits when I went back to Pak'

And my ancestors Indian but India was not for us

My people built the West, we even gave the skinheads swastikas

Now everybody, everywhere want their country back

If you want me back to where I'm from then, bruv, I need a map

Or if everyone just gets their shit back then that's bliss for us

You only built a piece of this place, bruv, the rest was us

Maybe I'm from everywhere and nowhere

No Man's Land, between the trenches

Nothing grows there but it's fertilised by the brown bodies

Fought for you in the wars so when I spit a poppy grows there

Yeah, I'll make my own space in this business of Britishness

Your question's just limiting is based on appearances

Stop tryna make a box for us

I'll make my own and bruck your poxy concept of us

Very few fit these labels so I'm repping for the rest of us

Who know that there's no place like home and stretches us

Who code switch so don't piss me off with cricket tests for us

Or question us about our loyalty, our blood and sweat's enough

Born under a sun that you made too hot for us

Kidnapped by Empire and diaspora fostered us

Raised by Bunga garage and Halal southern fried chicken shops

A jungalist and a jungali, I'm Mowgli from The Jungle Book

I'm John Barnes in the box, I blaze hard after Mosque

I bend words like Brown and West until they just spell wap

My tribe is a quest to a land that was lost to us

And it's name is Dignity

So where I'm from is not your problem, bruv