Lions Den

By Swoop Ghazi

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[Verse]

Cah what's fear? I'm respected

Cah when beef goes off I don't trap for the exit

I've backed this from day, I don't rap for the fame

See that's where the test is

But I ain't tryna make the guest list

I'm after the pie like Memphis

Check this, man talk gully on the net quick

But when I see don, like my brudda that I rep with

Man will move blocks like Tetris, you get this?

You can act gully in your ends kid

Till I run up on them man that you're friends with

I learned lessons from the man that I'm friends with

Cah when the love dies so does the friendship

I never ever begged it, beginning to the end shit

Real bruddas only, the ones we expected

A real friend has your back even if he ain't connected

Like Ray said, we meant it, we beat back defences

The street life is endless, that ain't us

Cah we're family men, we roll straight up

Some are on the same bus

Some switched up and got their papes up, some turned snake cuz

Me I'm still real like Madrid, I won't change up

Put up with the fake love

I've seen man turn pussy for the pussy like Drake does

Fam I don't rate this, fuck if you rate us

I'll light up the strip like Vegas

It seems like they made us, feel so fly

They said rap was dead but I'm here, no lie

And I fear no guy, let the lions speak

Cause I'm the last of a dying breed

And I've done talked about reps on the road

Made a tune like I'm destined to blow but I exit the show

Cah it's best if I don't but I'm blessed to the bone

Getting left on my own, better know I ain't a guest to the throne

If you know then you know, if you don't now you do

Let me show you why I spoke, those rappers chatting jokes

Man are lacking flows so I'm back up in the zone

No trap up in my phone, straight clapping up the clones

They want it in the present, I'll wrap it up and show man the levels

Know I back it to the bone if they say they want smoke

I'll strap it up and roll

And my whole squad's down like the syndrome bro

You know they keep an eye on us, say we bring the mad stress

Slept on me too long, you've worn out the mattress

I saw who put in when I had less

Still I couldn't figure out some like a math test

Loyal to my last breath, pull back quick like they rang feds

But we ain't shotting on the block, we don't flang Z's

But we've had a few fist fights and we've banged heads

Cleaned up the damn mess, you can take a damn guess

Boys wanna be the man, girls wanna love him

Shocked when they saw me, didn't tell 'em I was coming

But for real I ain't budging, spent a good few years buzzing

I smoked out my twenties like it's nothing

I was in the wrong lane tryna cut in, now I'm here getting stuck in

If you're down like you're ducking

We can get the shit cracking with the suttin

Cah man talk gas about the running

Like you can get smoked by the friend that you're hugging

Putting dirt on my name, then more time I've done him

Now I'm here in the flesh like my cousin

And a slap to your cheek will leave your eardrums humming

If your mouth ain't shutting, I'll have your head gone

Paki been bunning man and moving like gyal

How they gossip and they're judging

Try skank man like he's been clubbing

Believe I ain't stressing, B it's nothing

Whenever we're mugging, fake jeans we ain't loving

Ain't my business, you'll never see me butt in

Water I ain't tuggin, react when we have to, this shit ain't flushing

My darg getting nothing but a rose to my feet

I'll unleash the beast if you disturb the peace

A couple man didn't see it like me

I'm loyal like the root from the tree, real love came free

But respect wasn't cheap, loose lips sink ships, we don't speak

We have to go to war then we wudu, believe

But I'm living with the woo to a chief

I don't need my arms out like I ripped up my sleeves

There's levels, I did this with ease

Fam, road, money, never mix up the three

Like loyalty and honour was the key

And I've got it in my blood like a cancer disease

Stay clean when the feds come, I ain't gotta freeze

Man talk about heat when they're running from the beef

Oh please, you never pull it back and let if off like a sneeze

You're only on the roads for the P's

There's no point in stunting my G

If you really pack guns in your jeans

Don't stunt on the Gram, don't speak

And you ain't gotta run from police

As long as you hold shit down when you have to

Nobody can chat no greaze