The Four Owls – Not Like Before Lyrics
Lyrics
- Not like before
- We're gonna tell a little story
- It's about me, about he, about we
- Not like before
- Yeah yeah, take me back, the owls.
Leaf Dog
- Man I only went to school to sell weed at lunch time
- Two gerners on a tub, mine crushed up fine
- Losing my mind, sniffing lines. No attendant sign
- Made the habit mine of any drug I could find
- All I knew about was crime until I dropped a few shrooms
- Made a few tunes, me and BVA coming real soon
- And then it dropped, and nobody listened
- Lost but not forgotten was the beggining of this mission
- I used to be living on the floor with Freddy T
- One of the reasons for the malnourished Leaf that you see
- He gave me the pc, I used to make the beats 'for this CD
- Got passed the torch from Iz and Cool G
- Much repsect for that, and highfocus is the future
- See I've got your back, no shotty in my back-pack.
- Got my queen, no need to chase rats, your behind
- While i slowly take over the map,
- Wheres the owls at? ah!
Fliptrix
- Many things have changed since the old school days
- Runnin' 'round on train tracks, sprayin up the trains
- Picking up an eighth bag to blaze it in the day
- Now i smoke a little this, but its indie kush haze.
- Ill take you back for a lesson.
- Way back to the Brixton mass' open mic sessions.
- Average spotted me, thought that i was reppin'
- Then we met a little later at the speakers road in mecka.
- He took me to a studio in Queens Road Peckham
- Recorded force fed imagery it seemed that it was destined
- I aint seen him in a couple years, but cuz hes still my bredrin
- Cant forget about the man who put you in for a second
- Like verb T, certified G the mic veteran. Runone.
- Blessed me with beats from his collection.
- Got mad nice on the decks at every damn event son.
- Whores and cash, have your back, we rinse up the shows n' that.
- Supported dark raider rugged-man. That was classic fact.
- Reminisce reminisce. Remember lacey shooz wit' kimo up in Brixton lab.
- Then he moved it down to white chaple place. Was nang.
- Late nights was rammed, man it went to plan.
- Since then im high-focused on the prison fam.
- Make music move units stay reppin' that.
- Make music move units stay reppin' that.
BVA
- At school i never used to go and stay at home high.
- That stoned in zone guy, the same and you know why.
- Then college, i wasnt really concerned with that.
- Mainly went to sell ten pound sacks, and chase rats.
- Dropped out and went back, but i still wasnt focused.
- Started rappin' on beats about how we be the brokest.
- for lost but not forgotten then there was world war three.
- Then the war ended and we still hadn't dropped the CD.
- But now things are different cos kids still pump and listen
- To the CD that we give them three years ago on the mission.
- Still leave the page written, hit the stage with our spitten
- Got a contract and learnt how to make our shit thicker.
- Cleared our own path like a snowplow.
- Gained the know how on how to get exactly where we want
- And never go down, and now we're that storm on your horizon.
- With more tracks laid down than a fifty year old whore
- Thats still riding.
Verb T
- Yo it started back, when i heard Slick rick and doug e fresh
- I was eight used to play the vinyl when i dub cassettes.
- I spent my teen years weeded out past high
- With gang-star Wu-Tang tribe and the pharcyde.
- I cant lie, i was shy hittin open mics as a kid.
- But the studio i was smashin it.
- I had my first record out i was eighteen.
- Touring with phi life cypher for that was like a day dream.
- Shedded my innocence then started to grow wise.
- Grow flow wise i hooked up with low-life.
- Got some guidance and applied it, had confidence
- with kashmere and ghost toured the country and the continent.
- But still i had to keep a nine to five to keep the bills paid
- And quit the weed just to try and keep my mind alive.
- Sixteen bars is not enough time to write my entire life
- This is just one instalment.
- Now im a proud father, grown responsible.
- Learnt over years hate kills love conquers all.
- So i look to the future after steppin' back.
- Make music move units stay reppin' that.
- Make music move units stay reppin' that.