[Hook Nick Amour] Born and raised in a place thats been abandoned So when you make it out of here you feel like a champion We dont forget where we came from, but we aint in a rush to go back Different day, same song, I still represent my hometown [Verse 1] Product of my environment where everybodys selling drugs So it seems like being a shotta is a requirement, and even if you aint a shotta, you admire them Feds wanna lock us in the lions den, I done run up into my car while my baby mother was doing all my washing and my ironing Those aint pills, thats a bottle full of vitamins The only time we dial 999 is when we need an ambulance or we hollering for firemen My brudda Wallace on my mind again, now I need a zoot and a bottle of Heineken Drowning my sorrows and swallowing Ibufen, a lot of brothers I grew with are not inna my life again If they aint dead, then theyre probably with the lifers, then, one day we was on the block playing Simon Says [Hook] [Verse 2] Eastside resident, in and out of flats where the fiends like heroin Been about and back, seen everything, bring an ounce of crack, tell em its the Led Zeppelin Hard rock, we in the struggle getting fast gwop Truth be told, its a hustle that we cant knock, but try and get off the train before the last stop Im one of the lucky ones, you see my previous, my father same size as a catalogue from Argos The amount of man that I robbed with my mask on, I have to have a chat with God before my heart stops To ask him for forgiveness, I ended up doing all the things I used to witness I never put myself in the shoes of the victims fourteen, I was introduced to the system [Hook] [Bridge] They say you cant know where youre going unless you know where youre coming from Well, lets just say I left footprints And now Im representing everybody from the bottom, yeah Belief and faith [Hook]
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