[Verse]

I grew up in the south of the town

Where beef starts to spread

And death comes about

Where friends start to go

And feds come around

There's nowhere to go apart from the ground

We didn't have no P's to touch

I was only little, I didn't know much

No father figure, no smiles in pictures

I'm working hard

It's all for my mum

She would work so hard for a fiver

To call up her mum in Eritrea, with the lyca

That's why I'mma make it up

Hope you know I'mma take it up

Tryna stack all my paper up

Hope you know I'mma take it up

Put a middle finger at a hater, cause

They don't understand

The way I came through, cuz

They don't understand the way that I came here

Only made a couple bands on my revelation

I just prayed to the Lord and had patience

Cause this year is all about elevation

Shutdown Westfield 'cause I can though

No dad on my ones, I'm a man though

No, I ain't no average civilian

13, I banged my first million views

Might recognize from the videos too

Went from a school yute to a cool yute

Sang a couple tunes now I'm making them moves

Still going school I'm a lyrical yute

Everything I see, oh it be a wave

Smiles on my face, my tunes in the rave

No more L's, starting from today

Only going up, can never downgrade

Tryna get my people out of the slums

But keep the respect

Cause that's where I'm from

The real southside of a London

Where all the shit just has to go

Bang, bang, bang

I don't understand, stand, stand

It's all going mad, mad, mad

When you tell me they're gone

It's all gone wrong

And they won't come back, back, back

How can they just leave like that

How can they just leave like that

When you tell me they're gone

It's all gone wrong

I'm just tryna get away from here

Make my bread and disappear

You can't make success appear

You gotta work that shit up there

Through the ups and downs

I can't shed no tears

Keep my head up and show no fear

Keep it up till the coast is clear

I got to work that shit up there

Through the ups and downs

I can't shed no tears

Keep my head up and show no fear

Keep it up till the coast is clear

You got to work that shit up there yeah, yeah