[Intro: Franklyn] It’s the city that raised us up But the city can break you down And if you escape it’s luck It’s gritty the place is foul Yo, we live in this place, we’re stuck It’s a pity our shades are brown There’s plenty at stake And many mistakes are made As we chase the pounds Employers dismiss us, they’re racist Got lawyers for different cases They shift us, we sit in their stations It’s literally trials and tribulations There’s vials that litter the pavements [Verse One: Franklyn] Lеt me tell you Who Franklyn Is Franklyn is a misanthropist Don’t back the things that thеse actors spit Telling massive fibs trying to gas the kids Them man are tryna be bachelors Me I’m 2Pac, with a bachelors It’s facts I spit, on the tracks I rip I guess you can call me a rap activist No I don’t need a celeb to hype me I went studio and left a crime scene And if a brudda try send to spite me It’s a must that I lyrically end a life, b East London, hence it’s grimy Trend aside, see I’m a product of Ghetts and Wiley The best I might be And that goes through my head on drives To go and get my girlfriend from Whitleys The whole scene’s been saying you’re hard But I laugh, ‘cos it’s less than likely Cos you got little white girls all spraying your bars But I’d rather the ends recite me Cos even though I’m a father of flows I read this prose for my dargs on the road Getting illegal dough as they barter with coke The streets are cold and it’s hardly a joke You can ha-ha, you can laugh I suppose But it’s dark hearts on the paths that we chose I mean - I was in my yard, not involved But that ain’t the case for half of my bros Anyways No fear in our hearts cos we’re bold Cuz, who cares for the pastor or pope? Half of us don’t Yeah we go hard for the code Get clapped, you can be the largest of blokes Like “why would I work 9-8 on a Wednesday? He was selling high-grade when the feds came We just raise crime rates on our estates We’re irate on our best days So I ain’t got time to rest mate When my friends stay confined in these enclaves We’re the next slaves and we’re dying for end gains Tryna get cake, not trying to maintain I’ve seen too many youngers die too early Maybe we should write our wills All of the murderous hype isn’t worth our lives So I tell a man “pipe down chill” Like, right now, still I describe turbulent times in my rhymes What I write down’s real I’m a young prodigy, live my life quarantined Everything I write down’s ill Everyone’s tryna get the funds up At least till the cops come But I ain’t even rapping for a lump sum Or tryna get a grammy like my mum’s mum It’s deep than music Not about me, it’s a movement I’m leaving a blueprint Cos I wanna see the solutions And that’s the reason I do this Cool
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