Cadet - Behind Barz lyrics

[Intro: Cadet] Lets go It's ya boy Cadet Underrated legend This is my story yeah, true story Shout out all my followers Everybody that supports Everybody that tweets Underrated legend A'ight Let's go A'ight boom [Verse 1: Cadet] So I turned m**m when I was fifteen Yeah man I knew what it means But I didn't know deen I didn't yearn for hype But hype did bring Islam to the scene Well now I'm m**m like most of my team It weren't in my heart, but it was in my speech I'm a young n***a living in a dream I can have a book in my bag or a knife in my jeans Man I was more into black history Ya know tryna to find out about man's fathers And I can talk about that all day long But I'm Cadet, I ain't [?] of a [?] Now most of my family is Christian But it's not like, any of them know the bible It's more like following suit Like my Nan would've told my mum do as i do But i done as they never did See I was sick from the roads And the book was my medicine My Nan she had the maddest jokes Like, come and give Nana a hug you look a terrorist Uh, but it's all banter Truth is I didn't care about religion Bare people turned m**m for hype And the fact of the matter I was one of them n***as Man until I meet Cali and the bill They took a n***a that was savage in the field Took a knife out and put a pen in And gave me a purpose man it's so real You see, I went from saying [?] For the sake of it To [?] But I can't stop music it means too much The grime tempo my heart beats too much I know that the sh** that I'm doing is haraam [?] come at my face man you pree'd too much And you ain't gotta tell me I ain't on deen I know what comes with the music scene And if I'm gonna go hell then cool There's no better reason than chasing a dream Like, I ain't trying to sound cliché But it's the first time I ever chase me a dream Like why would God help me I was that same n***a with that kitchen in his jeans Like I ain't trying to go [?] See I just want to use the gift that he gave me But since you like hearing my stories, cool Let me tell you the one that made me A'ight so, I must of been about 6 or 7 My Mum she was throwing me a party It was my birthday and I was ga**ed And plus I was gonna see my Dad See I was a Daddy's boy But I wanted to be ya know when he was around It was my birthday I'm excited Even my cousin from East came down Now, you said that he bought me a Mega Drive And back then they were the lick And yeah I told my cousins you can play that Cool, but [?] I'm gonna go first in this sh** I was said that he would come around 5 Right now it's around 8 Everybody's saying that he ain't gone come I told 'em "shut up" and that he's just late See I remember running into my room Putting my face up against that window 'cause that window's at a mad angle So I can see when he would be on [?] road Mum said "come away from that window" I was like "no Mum because he gone come" She said "at least come and blow out your candles" And I was like "no Mum because he gone come" Yo, I feel asleep at that window The side of my face went numb And yo I missed my whole f**ing birthday 'cause I was thinking that he gone come Now, I know that it might sound dumb 'cause I moved on, but it still lives with a kid But right now I'm 25 and the fact is I ain't ever celebrated a birthday ever since I grew up mean with no merky with a kid Try celebrate but it would burn me ever since And that ain't even where it gets peak Let me tell them Link Up I beg you turn it up a bit See me I grew up in Clapham And that's where I spent my teens See I was on Nelsons Row And across the road was McD's Now when I linked up with my Dad He told me the truth He told me he was on crack He was in a dark space ill but he's moved on Is a strong man he ain't never going back Now that day he had my Mega Drive But he sold it quick for that fiend And guess where this man sold it Across the road in McD's it was peak But you know what, that ain't even what changed me Even after the bullsh** there that ain't even what made me Uh, a broken man my Dad be yeah he used to But that used to is so used to Now let me tell you the man that I'm used to Excuse you if you think it's been a smooth route We just couldn't connect like it were Bluetooth He would say a funny joke to make the room move I was trying not to crease like it was new shoes We would go out to eat sit in a new booth Wouldn't be a happy meal there's not a fruit [?] You knew that that man I be real to Is now the compa** I stay true to Feds put me in a box like Sudoku He'd get me out the box like it was new [?] Interview come he took me for a new suit f** then I'm just glad I know the new you I refuse to not appreciate the sh** that you do Are you mad my friends ain't talk about dads It ain't a thing But me I'm lucky that my one is a king See you went from being the guy that I could drop to To being the guy that I compare God to Of course I'm happy when I see my Dad [?] joints and man when you brought it through Went from smoking rock to rocking the hardest suits My Dad is the man I just want to buy you a diamond watch ya know Put a different kind of rock in your hand Ya know the sh** that you done for the kid is peak I can't even put it in to speech Man you even downloaded Twitter for me Just so you can re tweet Uh That sh** there gets me hyped So who cares if I don't make it in music 'cause that man there made it in life [Outro: Cadet] Yo, Underrated legend man Cadet Cadet You don't know man