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05 Kano
02:21
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Sometimes I wonder if I'm too nice,
Wear my heart on my sleeve cuff links open wide,
Shed tears through the songs to dry round the eyes
If ever I seem off just don't write me off
I'm trying to readjust get my focus aligned
While unsigned trying to make a name off the grind
work study studio gym all that combined
I aint doing numbers but still working wonders
I even volunteer at the black cultural archive
So youngers relate to creative arts kind
I don't look like the norm or fit the stereotypical constructs or what Media deems to be the threatening black guy,
I ain't been jail I'm crafting for my master's facts is,
Some use that to discredit my blackness
I aint on always on grease or behave all ratchet
But still the fam can rely on me to back to it
Wanting to be the hood guys to now being hoodwise
See movements occur resilience and adaptive
Progress the key I'll have 10's of millions of views but until my cousins free
Feel like I've underachieved
He serving an M Charge I just paid a C
Crafting away to be the one people pay to see
I grew up on original pirate material
That Pro Green shotting know all about the streets
Battles and barriers know all about the defeat
But we focus on triumph that where soon to see
Time pull up the socks now along with the jeans
No slagging or slacking about making this p
Time we redefine that council estate of mind
I learnt from Skinny man still studying M9
I do categories blahzay more time
You see the platforms I part take more time
From the youth clubs to stage shows and live PAs
Just subscribe or google my name more time
Girl that screw face smile away more time
Could be the bars or flows watch that's rose gold
Voice tone got them feeling a way more time
I even given time to those undeserving
That only call to check on man for money or service
Them 1 to 1's with my mum she'll tell me to pray on it
Premeditative mind I like to write with purpose
Reflective not argumentative or resenting
My father walk past me and didn't recognise me
Then try fist bump me after like where bredrins
My guy my guy
Dickhead
In the scenes web I'm just weaving my net
Away from genre's and labels that may manifest
Till the one's you call goats are in front of my boat
But I can only recognise me when I see them
Studio like Hatton Garden I produce gems
Can take the Clarke Kent filters off your specs
Recognise and see that I'm one the best
I ain't run of the mill but soon be running with mills
To Invest in the homeland am up on my heels
Some ignorant see Africa as a country still
Some bleach their skin hopes for wider appeal
I got scars plus am hard USP I'm real
Less time for broke talks lets see how wealth feels
This feels like 05 Kano still
Beats and bars 05 Kano still
Home sweet home 05 Kano still
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The Gaffer
02:23
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I hit the stu like I'm Sun Tzu
Stench of warfare still marinates
Engineer got PTSD from my last tune
De ja vu flashbacks head shakes come through
Scarred up some tough luck but still resolute
Mandem aint brought out the gun fingers
Since early 2000 Dynamite boo
See me that's a normal salute
Every time I jump on the riddim or spray up the tune
Know it's a given I'm driven take over the room
My time killing it now like It's long overdue
Class of my own like being isolated in school
I remember before Afrobeats was the main ting
Remember how certain man be Jafaking
Cat thug lifestyle till their image betrayed them
Them tribal marks turn to gang wounds entertainment
ticks and stones
Belt buckle and bottles
Threats to wait there I get my older involved
See mandem shook all twist in knots at the dome
Like the way a nappy head dredds a tooth pick comb
Them teenage years bear attitude shown
How many mums threatened to send man back home
Man done a short bid few months I should know
Realise how good I had it when I had to buy soap
And learn to handwash my bed garments an clothes
Iron and pressed finessed all neatly fold
Some I left out to dry on the balcony side
By the morning time all the name brands got stole
These Millenials got it good cha
Before WhatsApp chat free message and call apps
We did shop runs hard just to buy phone card Indomy noodles bread and stew on the regular
Felt the taste of sorrow bruh no faux pas
See when NEPA done took the light now
We had to use fuel to work the generator
These stories from my childhood you just can't make up
Using matchsticks to light up the lantern
Local area boy same struggle we all mandem
Wash hands and roll sleeves for pounded yam dem
A King straight Chief no random
Make me the OGA
Hmm Hmm
We be the Chief Dem
Eh heh
NEPA take power
Chia
We keep lit up on these ends
Make me the OGA
Hmm Hmm
We be the Chief Dem
Eh heh
NEPA take power
Chia
We keep lit up on these ends
Make me the OGA
Hmm Hmm
We be the Chief Dem
Eh heh
NEPA take power
Chia
We keep lit up on these ends
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Transition
02:25
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I fell asleep on the good book and woke up to scriptures I wrote
Now pages I quote the brainchild of a goat
Channel with different man but still find I'm remote
With the path that I'm on from the path that I've known
Crabs in a barrel try hold me back from my throne
The original dan them man cat like they clones
Broke boy mentality when they're fully grown
Want stripes like you the only one that's done road
Rep from my skin tone and not no postcode
Lions don't lose sleep over opinions of sheep
10 toes on front street the vanguard of my own
King by all means my story's to be told
My record certified yours filled with plot holes
Day I picked the pen dug oil found gold,
Not one to show off just booked to do shows
Let's get it
We gon separate the real from the pretenders
Regulating everything and those with the hidden agendas
Scared to live to their potential so don't want you better
Cause they know you got the pedigree to be the greatest ever
Ties getting severed with effort I'm done and I ain't threatened
I'm a weapon and I'm only getting sharper by the second
What you reckon, they don't really want it and can see I'm Pentekkers
Let him know, they don't want it and can see I'm Pentekkers
Tek tek tek
Real tings real one's
Fist bump and show love to my real dons
Not stuck in the mud spend our life doing crud trying elevate encourage to make millions
David Icke said watch for reptilians
Not supposed to make it our success gonna be killing them
No survivors doubters gonna play innocent
I only do the real and check for artists I can feel
Some OG's may get a bly the rest ain't feeling them
Your catalogue weak album see the evidence
Had classics when broke at it passionate really about it
Now trying to stay relevant I pity them
Middle of the park less star (Leicester) Tielemans
Know I got the heart and will love it like Kate Middleton
We seize opportunities not a victim of
Every mc you can think of place me above
Pentekkers for the record best there is and was
That scarred boy that be coming with a different buzz
Finessing infinitely my skills limitless
Killer bars killer flows trying to lift the people up
Pen moving sticking it to those who kept the door shut
Vanguard of UK black culture living legend trust
I ain't doing this for me am doing this for us
Timing of the essence know that patience is a must
I'd hate me too if I was you the way I switch it up
Radio really ready but we steady climbing up
No deal and independent own everything I got
No deal and independent own everything I got
Man I'm just trying to make a change
Out the ends trying to make some moves
They say being alone makes you strong
Shit I know this journey be long
Don't support my vision step aside
Know I got the keys to breakthrough
My success yours to
Trying to be the Goat of Great Britain
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MorDan Words Croydon, UK
Before the world had ever heard the name Mordan
Words, the artist was sitting in the back
of
classrooms writing rhymes and beat boxing.
Entering poetry competitions coming in first place alongside for online magazine Endz2Endz, battles,
and recording demos.
With frequent bookings and performances Mordan Words
has drawn comparisons to Nas, Lupe Fiasco and
Wretch 32 alike. Listen and support!
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