Lowkey - Blood, Sweat & Tears lyrics

[Verse 1: Klashnekoff] As lightning strikes and thunder pounds Over the grey skies of East London town Prophecy K returns from the underground Signified by the peoples crying, trumpet sounds Yeah the system it tried to shut me down But I been on my ting before Onyx was flinging guns around Blood, sweat, and tears for years It feels like my careers been in the dumping ground Yeah, this is how hunger sounds And I'm the hunter now, 'Lash the lion heart A.K.A. the man behind the iron mask For ten years straight, I've been raising the iron bar Tryna breathe the life back into this dyin' art So why try and par? When you'll meet the same fate as that lion Scar This game is fake; full of two-faced lying ras Who would sell their soul and arse just to climb the charts Yea, but me, I put in too much time in the graft Refinin' my craft for labels to sign me for a minor advance Picture K'Lash, mimin' on Trance Now picture Dr. Dre beats/'Lash rhymin' with Stars It's all fate and I got mine in my grasp They're all snakes, let 'em die in the past But who knows what the future holds? These N.W.O. soldiers will probably shoot me cold All because the truth was told You should know I did it from the heart [Hook: Lowkey] I'm still here, pushing after several years I'm still here, standing strong, never in fear I'll be still here after the dust settles and clears I'll be still here after the blood, sweat and the tears [Verse 2: Lowkey] I don't do this for the happy ravers or the aggy haters I do this for the warriors and the gladiators Do this for those whose lives you never cared about Can't pronounce their names, their origins or their whereabouts Those brought up around tragedy and sadness Who adjusted and found normality in the madness Fight the power 'til I'm out of breath like Malcolm X You empower the powerful, I empower the powerless They'll play you on the radio if you rap about a Gucci belt But rap about the government; you might as well shoot yourself Industry fairies say I rap about conspiracy theories Just to hide the fact that they lyrically fear me Got that eye of a tiger, the heart of a lion The mind of a lifer, my stance is defiant I rise like a phoenix, immediate from the ashes My existence is inconvenient for the ma**es Though we are equal, I despise an imitation I live for my people and die for liberation I stand as a visionary; some have got plans of k**in' me To literally vanish me physically like Aborigines Hannibal with the mask, an animal with the bars I'm grappling with my shackles, I channel it through my art Feel it in the ambience, champion, heavyweight My life is nothing but my pride is somethin' that you can never take They think I'm elusive or think I'm a nuisance I swear these major labels must think that I'm stupid Keep your 360's you're convincing these dudes with Like I'll give you the blueprint for pimping my music I say that like K'Lash, he's another lion Every hardship from getting scarred to my brother dying Spit all of it with or without a big audience Through the Blood, Sweat & Tears I stand victorious!