Kid D (UK) - Soul Speech lyrics

[Hook] I grew up on So Solid Crew And 21 Seconds, I wanted an Audi But it was man like Wu That showed me cash rules everything around me And man like Kano who showed me You gotta give 'em nuttin' but bars But man like Nas? He taught "Ether", there's no need to be calm [Verse] I speak from the heart New year but it's still me on the graft Still here, watch man reach for the charts Get dropped, now they wanna reach for their bars See it with 'nough of man By next year, there'll be another man Guys in the scene bred like "f** it, fam" I don't understand It seems enough cosigns and then they love a man We let the first MOBO Grime Award go to a rapper Not to say that he ain't sick but He's done more work as a rapper, but Congratulations, not to him but all those nominations That built all the real foundations Swinging it out on those radio stations What happened to the build up? Times of building character Times where you had to build up Before a Twitter page or a camera Now it's all about breasts Views and internet ratings What happened to the days when Moments weren't captured in JPEG? I've been out here On this music scene tryna get it But the truth is, I don't get it I think most of these man are pathetic Bunch of talkers who don't talk up Circus acts, just clowning Speak their views when the camera's on When the camera's off, their mouth, nothing comes out it I came back from the mountain Touring, fresh off an outing Now I've got a likkle man sending With my wave over here, I'll drown him So yeah man, yeah man, yeah man If you really wanna war, we can do it here, fam That's the problem with these MCs They wanna reach levels they are not near, man They wanna see a next man trying They'd rather act like an eediot They wanna see a new man trying They're tryna build hype off their old achievements It's getting crazy It seems less about bars than mentions It's a popularity contest Depending on your bredrins And I ain't even mad It's just one of them things That's not spoken, one of them things Most won't like my views But I'll bet you relate to one of them things I just speak it casually Voice any truth, do that naturally Grime music I love but it lacks originality You'll all see what happens in '015 You're gonna see what happens in '015 You're gonna see what happens in '015 You're gonna see what happens in '015 [Hook] I grew up on So Solid Crew And 21 Seconds, I wanted an Audi But it was man like Wu That showed me cash rules everything around me And man like Kano who showed me You gotta give 'em nuttin' but bars But man like Nas? Taught me "Ether", there's no need to be calm