Back Then - Intellectual

[Intro]

Plasticman production

Very early, very authentic, icy

Boy Better Know

Tracksuit mafia

Sun is blazin'

[Hook]

Back then hoes didn't want me

See me on the magazine cover and they're all on me

The sun goes down, these skets wanna call on me

They can see that I make paper

My last mixtape was a game changer

And now I got these hoes on my iPhone talkin' 'bout, "Hey stranger"

I just double tap

Switch apps, ain't nobody got time for that

Jump on the plane and I kick back

This plane that I'm on got Wi-Fi

Run up your mouth online, get a bitchslap

Cause man don't do that tit for tat

Don't wanna tweet, don't wanna talk, don't wanna interact with you

[Verse]

I can't take these niggas

Who the fuck raised these niggas?

Don't know a thing about workin' hard

Nobody gonna employ or pay these niggas

Yes I come from the streets

But still man's tryna make them Jay Z figures

And like Lukey said, "Trust me, failure's not an option"

Straight out of London, Tottenham

I get love from Houston to Compton

From Vancouver to Boston

Gimme the mic, I shut down, no problem

Treatin' shows of 25 people the same as 25 thousand

That's why I'm on a worldwide tour and I ain't even dropped my album

I never saw this comin'

When I was in the hood, stressed out, bunnin'

I had a strap on my lap thinkin' about enemies I wanna put one in

Now I don't care what niggas say

I've got girls down under tellin' me that I'm on Triple J

All my niggas on the rise, man

It's a sad time for the KKK

They're tryna work out what's happenin'

David Cameron on the phone to Obama

Man are shakin' and panickin'

When they see the Shutdown Shoreditch gatherin'

Come off my TV, all they do is stand up and pose like mannequins

I put my voting card in a black bin and I dash that like javelin

[Interlude]

Phone rings

Who's that?