Akala – Where Im From Lyrics
Lyrics
Intro
- Yo, OK, OK, Yeah nice, OK
- Listen
- Where I'm from
- Where I'm from
- Listen
Verse 1
- 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
Interlude
- 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
Verse 2
- 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
Interlude
- 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...
Verse 3
- 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?
Interlude
- 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