Strategy - LifeOnTheCostaDelSalford lyrics

[Verse 1] Sitting in the studio, thinking about life While you lot are sitting in the sun outside Living in this city got me going out my mind So ima show 'em a thing or two about writin' Thinking about when we used to battle an' sh** DRS will punch a rapper in his mouth quick I'm tellin you the truth yo ask Semtex When Mikayla put her nails in a guys eye-flesh That was the first time i rhymed with our kid Broke'n'£nglish laying it down like carpet Momma used to get my shoes from the market When I went to school they used to call me darkie Costa del Salford; I grew up in the 80's Think it's bad now? back then it was crazy Had a fight with my best friend, name's Jackie He cracked me in my face and then he called me a Paki That's when I knew that I had to switch; I hit him with a bat, said "I'm Jamaican, b**h" Me and our kid went down the swimming baths Came out a couple lads robbed our hats They was big though so we couldn't do sh** I went home told my mum she went sick Weren't nuttin big though, still I think back To when me and Alex took acid in cla** Teacher said "John yo you look messed up" I just stood up and said "get to f**" In geography cla** having a bad trip When i got suspended i thought 'is that it?' [Chorus] Cus its life on the Costa I said it's life on the Costa Hey yo we're living on the Costa We're growin up on the Costa del Salford, b**h This is life on the Costa I said it's life on the Costa What you know about the Costa? We're living life on the Costa del Salford, b**h [Verse 2] Well I'm sittin in the studio thinking about stuff I used to hate life but now I can't get enough Spent my life in Salford and I ain't gone mad So I know that this living thing ain't that bad We used to call Higher Broughton 'Beirut' Where the youts dem mainly aim to make loot I was one of the only brown kids on the close So I used to have fights by the football posts Before mixed race they used to say halfcast I was the darkest kid sittin in our cla** When a kid tried to bully me i said i was spanish and my name was Antonio Vargas Even though my grandad was a Jamaican At seventeen he came through immigration He was searching for a better life for his family so right now it's 'im I'm celebrating Sittin in my studio thinking about that And how i'm gonna put the Costa del on the map b**h, you know the clique: Broke'n'£nglish I stand up to the light; photosynthesis The kids been about, yeah the kids done a lot From Salford Precinct now i'm going to the top The kids done a lot, yeah the kids been about From Lower Broughton now I'm in with a shout To any little kids thinking they can't make it No matter where you're from haters can't say sh** If anyones saying that you can't make it Tell 'em "Strats said you can s** my dick" (in a bit b**h) [Chorus] Cus its life on the Costa I said it's life on the Costa Hey yo we're living on the Costa We're growin up on the Costa del Salford, b**h This is life on the Costa I said it's life on the Costa What you know about the Costa? We're living life on the Costa del Salford, b**h. (in a bit)