Where Im From Lyrics

• Yo, OK, OK, Yeah nice, OK
• Listen
• Where I'm from
• Where I'm from
• Listen

• Where I'm from its not presidents, I'm trying to see the queen
• Different toilet same shit, they're fiending for the big cream
• Scheming their dough to the ceiling, till the no longer breathing
• And they do shit to make us look heathen
• The reason?
• Born to a broken home, tears of my mother
• Only those that know cos they've been there through all the hunger
• Others judge us and snub us
• They shouldn't
• Growing up in my house, don't think you could of
• Mummy hustling, no one ever did us no favours
• Except the neighbours
• We used to borrow sugar and some toilet paper
• Embarrassing when its my turn to knock
• But its cool, what don't kill you only make you stronger
• Know they say I'm conscious my words are positive
• Its not that, to me its just the truth is obvious
• And rather than talking bollocks about who I'd be clapping
• I'd rather tell the truth about what actually happened

• You know
• Every bodies killing five hundred man in the booth
• The roads are bad but
• If as much man was dying in the streets as was dying in the booth
• They'd be nobody left
• Stop with dishonesty man
• All my home-boys locked up, everybody who's lost a family member
• Keep your head up
• Ain't' nothing sweet in the streets
• Listen

• Here in England now we got bloods and crips
• I'm ashamed and embarrassed to have to admit
• Our grandparents got chased cos they were black
• Now we kill each other for colours in the union jack
• Shit
• This is not the sates, no American dream
• Just a British nightmare with a similar theme
• Same scheme, same fiend, same end to the dream
• Same church, same hurt, same mother that screams
• With the only difference being there's no opposites here
• No Jigga no Simmons, no positives here
• It is obvious we are not prospering here
• What's horrible? I don't no if it's possible here
• Our grandparents came here invited by our majesty
• Tragically just to be treated like savages
• No Blacks, No Irish and of course no dogs
• And if it ain't' cleaning toilets then of course no jobs
• With all the Teddy boys attacking us and calling us wogs
• Boys in blue at it too, apparently that's not on?
• And here we are fifty years later, nothings improved
• Its like we've gone back a step, like we chasing our roots
• Here we are fifty years later nothings improved
• We've gone back a step
• But we ain't' chasing our roots

• You know
• Don't know where you come from
• You don't no where your going
• Teach the yout dem man
• Value of self, Understand?
• When your watching your TV
• Learning your history book
• Its not accurate
• Teach the yout dem
• Listen, listen, Because...

• Its just a bunch of lies that we perpetuate ourself
• Being from the hood is not a definition of self
• Circumstances don't define you, you define you
• My baby diamond shines so bright it'l blind you
• That's why I'm everywhere, fronting where rappers would never dare
• No bodyguards, trust me my people I'm never scared
• Not cos I think I'm hard, just that iv seen your vision
• A million thugs in prison would die for my position
• They get there so frequent for various reasons
• When we're told we ain't shit we really believe it
• Whether by another brother, a father, a mother
• The television, or the teachers, police or the judges
• Its covering the fear that they already no
• You can only break a diamond with a piece of the same stone
• Where strong beyond measure, ask your professor
• How do you make a diamond? A billion years of pressure
• And a diamond is found where? At first within the rough
• So no matter where were at there's a diamond inside of us
• Forget repping the ends, what the ends do for you?
• Your worth so much more, If only you Knew, You Know?

• Hold your head
• All this ends rah, rah, rah, nonsense
• That's exactly what it is just nonsense
• All these rappers on TV talking shit about how much they bust their strap and Yah, Yah, Yah
• You do not listen to them, their talking nonsense
• They live in big nice houses
• They got security, and bodyguards, and people to take care of them
• Its an illusion, you understand?
• And all the bitches, and the chains and the neck lasses in the video
• Its just bollocks man, That's nobody's reality
• When did the hood become so sweet?
• That's no hood iv ever been in
• Understand? The hood I no is miserable
• The hood I no everybody's trying to get out of
• So why are all these rappers dying to get back in it? And dying to be rude-boys?
• When all the rude-boys are dying to be legitimate
• So, Its just nonsense man, just be honest
• Just be yourself

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