Lowkey - Freestyle #2 lyrics

Listen yeah! Lowkey, Double P, Mongrel, check out ww.myspace.com/lowkeyuk The album, coming out November, Dear Listener The Mongrel album coming out January, Better Than Heavy, cheez Listen, this is what we say to them Channel U youths, listen, them little Channel U kiddies, listen… OK! [Verse 1: Lowkey] So what you're on the telly What you know about putting out three CDs before you were twenty? You know that you heard of me What you know about being eighteen and doing shows in Germany? What you know about four stars in a magazine? What you know about the game, waste man I have the key? What you know about hundred bars on the radio? Nothing, you weren't making dough you were lazy bro You're following, before you were bothering I was on this ting Songs filled my pockets with profit, I'm being honest king Said it's all politics before anybody hollered it Turned down chances cos I knew what they were offering Called out a couple names, had the game gossiping Never hear Kizzy on the track with Lady Sovereign Might see me in your girl's favourite magazine modelling Pulling up in a tinted whip with a model in Shot my first CD myself it was astonishing Stockers wouldn't stock us now we tell ‘em stop grovelling Our shottas shot to shoppers and shottas we got a lot of them Coppers can't cop it, were coppers so stop copying Now we're topping the toppers from Tottenham to Nottingham All your favourite rappers want us to do a song with ‘em Me, I ain't bothered with all of the fake politics Me, I just live my life and stay positive Epitome of verse-k**ing, lyrically I'm hearse-fillin' Been out for a minute G… surfacing Your whole trilogy still didn't beat my worst rhythm What you figured B, you're as ill as me, I heard different See your favourite MC, I nurtured him And see all your favourite beats, I murdered ‘em Face it your click is wasted, I won't work with ‘em They certainly heard of me from Guernsey to Birmingham (Woo!) Cos the name holds weight, still I wake up to the same old hate And pray for a day my face ain't so bait I'm a rapper other rappers act like they don't rate Cos when DJs get my tunes they play it eight shows straight Rewind it and drop bigger bombs than NATO make To be real it ain't all about the radio play Cos we all wanna bust, there just ain't no space And the games dying, nobody's getting record sales Channel U's full of sweet boys try'n'a impress the girls The only rappers a lot of bredders have ever felt Are dead or depressed in jail and never getting mail When alive they hate, when gone, you're the best ever This ain't a comeback f*ck that, I'm a trendsetter People talk and get me differently twisted cos This rap sh*t is the m*otherf*cking business So what you peddle pebbles, you're dead whenever my pencil moves On every level I rep with rebels, you never lose You resemble devils with terrible tales you sell the youths You need to fix up yourself and tell the truth You've been rich for ten plus years, still sellin' crack Saying that you're still bustin' guns, why tell em that? Knowing that these kids emulate every rhyme you've ever spat You need to get your role models from somewhere else instead of rap You shouldn't really need me to explain You know that you imitate with what you speak and what you say You've got more power than their parents but you're leading them astray You don't tell them that these illegal ways will lead ‘em to the cage I'm p*ssed. Why? I got d*ck-riding bredders hating While you spit rhymes that misguided my generation You're not real, cos what you're saying ain't the truth You're try'n'a k** the kids, me, I'm try'n'a save the youths The future's removal of humans, computers, pursued revolution Hell is hot we burn like chips in a pan At your kid's birth they'll insert a chip in its hand I spent so many sleepless nights pondering reasons why Most of the good people in my life seem to die See my eyes take a look, deep inside seek to find The bottom of my soul, find the hole where my demons hide All I want's a peaceful life, but I can't see it like Every morning Mum weeps and cries so I don't even try Still she teaches me right, stay humble and be polite But she never saw what I saw on the streets at night I just wanna see the light, raise a yout', feed my wife But they're try'n'a take away my freedom so I need to fight Redesign your feeble mind and read the signs, be advised Either I get it or I'm taking what I feel is mine My life is like the best book you ever read Spent nights listening to Westwood and getting vexed My pen writes when I'm depressed cos I never slept Bredders step, let's do it man to man like Red and Meth You can freestyle all day, I make the best songs I'm like an insomniac's bed, rarely slept on The open mics, you know that's where I got my rep from Shady bredders thought they were big but they were dead wrong Rap with the spitter's spitters and spit for the rapper's rappers I rip the rhythm to ribbons from Britain to Madagascar Listen to lyricists and I diss all the backwards actors Dismiss all the k**ing sh*t cos none of that crap should matter You know I'm right, go and find a rapper that's as real as this He couldn't battle, the flipping demons that I'm dealing with I know my life ain't the hardest but even if you envy what I got And you wanna swap, we can switch The artist, slash terrorist, slash Double P representative Slash the worst rapper could ever diss Slash activist, slash kidnapper of the president Slash his wrists and leave a flippin' slash where his temple is (Yeah! Cheez, let's keep going man. I do this all day MK, Kiss 100 www dot MySpace dot com forward slash lowkeyuk Dear Listener LP November) [Verse 1: Lowkey] Listen, this is for all the hungry rappers out there yeah? Listen, listen… Since the day you left I've been stuck in place They say that time heals, but still nothing changed Every time I close my eyes I see you stubborn face And every morning I'm home I see my mother's pain The day you died, I had a dream where I said sorry I threw the second piece of dirt on your dead body When I don't see Mum for a while I get worried Cos if she died then that would take the rest of me Sitting in the hearse, driving to the cemetery I kept wishing it was me that was getting buried In a lot of ways, I feel like I'm dead already Cos it's October and I ain't cracked a smile since February I can feel it in the air, coming I'm just getting ready I just wanted to hang about but you would never let me After you pa**ed, advice I was getting plenty I made you famous because ‘Bars For My Brother' was legendary People all over the globe shared in the pain But how could you leave our parents this way? What's worse than losing a son? I compared in my brain Nothing! While I just sit back and stare at this page I know you know that I didn't really hate you But if you were still here would I appreciate you? I don't know, harsh reality is so cold Dad visits your grave every week but I won't go A crossroads not knowing what way I wanna choose Like I'm cursed to an eternity of solitude MPs talking ‘bout their bollocks views I'm having arguments with the telly when I watch the news You know that feeling you get when the whole world's on top of you? Your demons seem to follow you People say they're there but don't bother to holler you Can't trust yourself so trusting them is impossible No one said life was supposed to be fair Can't tell people what you're going through, they won't even care You're not the only one feeling trapped, lonely and scared Waking up in cold sweats but nobody's there You're in a dark place, running from issues that you can't face Conversations make your heart race at a fast pace Can't relate to anyone, that's something that you can't face Never ever act like we are, but we aren't mates You just ate but you're still hungry though fam Walk like I'm young but talk like a grumpy old man I hate thinking ‘bout the future, why? Cos it hurts me Imagining myself still living with my Mum at thirty Really not sure if I'm stable mentally Cos I always focus on my painful memories I pray for my family, pray for enemies Pray for my friends and myself cos I never sleep Pray for the day I break from this cage and they let me free Pray that I'm sent to a place that is heavenly Pray for my present, pray for my legacy And pray it's in a positive way, they remember me Yes, MK, peace and love yeah