[Verse 1]

Yeah my niggas dem built this

Came up from the pavements

Now it's billboards on buildings

What you know about branding?

Tryna get them six figure deals in

[?] plaque for the children

Slap something blue on the building

Man I come from the city of Gods

Man's gotta build this village if it kills them

All my real niggas feel this

Blood, sweat and tears

Man's been out here for years and years

Man's had beef with peers

Said they had links with ears

Man's gotta move past tiers

For Stormin, man shed tears

(Real life)

[Hook]

Do this for the culture

Building like a soldier

No time for a vulture

Yeah I'm tryna be a owner

Tryna make a hundred bags from my phone ah

Tryna go hard like boulder

It's never done 'til it's over

Gotta play the game like poker

Do this for the culture

Building like a soldier

No time for a vulture

Yeah I'm tryna be a owner

Tryna make a hundred bags from my phone ah

Tryna go hard like boulder

It's never done 'til it's over

Gotta play the game like poker

[Verse 2]

My G's done it from a test press

Through the riddim man express

Man levelling decks yeah

And them man never had decks yet

And Stormzy never had sex yet

Kano didn't link Ghetts yet

Titch never got that stretch yet

And Wiley never got vex yet

And Dizzee Rascal never left yet

Chipmunk didn't link Wretch yet

Jme weren't spitting with Skep yet

And Jaykae never lost Depz yet

(Too real)

[Hook]

Do this for the culture

Building like a soldier

No time for a vulture

Yeah I'm tryna be a owner

Tryna make a hundred bags from my phone ah

Tryna go hard like boulder

It's never done 'til it's over

Gotta play the game like poker

Do this for the culture

Building like a soldier

No time for a vulture

Yeah I'm tryna be a owner

Tryna make a hundred bags from my phone ah

Tryna go hard like boulder

It's never done 'til it's over

Gotta play the game like poker

[Verse 3]

Yo, it's not a sprint, it's a marathon

'Nough of them quit, I carry on

Every MC nowadays got a balli on

The roads is stress

So I'm at home tryna get my Cali on

Tryna save niggas from babylon

But all these niggas just babble on

I've got a bank card I can travel on

[Outro]

A lot of years, a lot of time, a lot of people come and gone. You get me, some are here, some ain't here, you get me? R.I.P. Esco, Stormin, Slinger, you get me? Big up all the brothers, you get me? And big up, big up everyone that was part of it