How It Is - Ghetts, Yazmin, Wretch 32

Yazmin

Wretch 32

Take a journey with me

Pretend I’m the tour guide

No MAC, just the .45

Welcome to London

Where some talk to the talk

But me, I walk the walk

And you can tell I’m abundance

Niggas get set up and held with a lump sum

They bringing drama to your mum’s drum

Flinging your arm up but when they come

Some fill 'em up with dum dums

Nowadays, the young ones are worse than the olders are

They’ll burst just to gloat and laugh

Don’t be so surprised

Because I’m around with no disguise

I know you noticed

I socialise with niggas that come from broken homes

And we don’t vote

Because even if we did, we wouldn’t see no hopes

And now I’m me now, with a kilo

Not giving a fuck if fiends overdose

I keep most my notes

When niggas won’t look, I’m taking precautions

You’ll get run up on eight in the morning

There’s no escaping distortion

So, my flame is important

Even if you ain’t making a fortune

Niggas want a portion

But taking my money is something like taking the

This is no real life, we call it street life

So much pain, this one’s so cold

This life’s deserted, the guns in violence

There’s so many things out on the road

Some people dying

All this crying

And still trying to find it hard to stray

So, people have nothing

They’re living life

Sleeping out on the streets at night

Listen, I’m from the roads where it’s no fair

You’ll get your face lift on your own stairs

The lift’s out of order, so, they gotta pass the body

Stinking out half the lobby

And if my prints are on the bricks

Then there’ll be charges on me

Someone’s gotta

The sergeants marching, looking answers

Questioning, the question is

Who did it?

Matter of fact, who didn’t?

Catch .22s like two digits

Surrounding my ends and

Drowning my head like a

But I gotta move with it

Because it’s kill or be killed

Matter of fact, put a stick in your wheel

Because a gun war can turn into your son’s war

Surname associated

And they’ll be bursting the chrome at faces

But I ain’t afraid of nothing

Darg, I can work, you were made redundant

I move through, I can shave an onion

I’m smooth too, I can date your loved one

Yeah, so don’t get it twisted

It’s me here that I’m in the lump sum

This is no real life, we call it street life

So much pain, this one’s so cold

This life’s deserted, the guns in violence

There’s so many things out on the road

Some people dying

All this crying

And still trying to find it hard to stray

So, people have nothing

They’re living life

Sleeping out on the streets at night

If you’re home

It’s in a war zone where laws are broke

But rich kids make a mockery of poor adults

Lord knows, I’ve bored foes

Don’t ever think it’s safe because your doors are closed

And with no qualifications

The only way to go legit is spit or score goals

And you can ask Lew

Producing beats, reducing sleep, are you a star, too?

You got a new release, the tune of week

Make use of fast food

That’s the food we eat, it’s food at least

I stack P’s and Nandos like

That’s everyday, it’s that peak

Then it’s back to the bad streets

Where the cats meet

Heroine and crack fiends

That keen that I could give a one in return of a flat screen

That’s just the perks of my job

I work with Charlie and I’m working with Bob

It’s 2007, I’m counting my weapons

Erasing my papers, so, my house be endeavoured

Out by eleven

Being a fiend, it’s in my genes

Like it’s found in my denim

I’m around of them bellends

Who from Peckham

Take a motherfucking look

I’m in a motherfucking hood

And the life I live, it’s even got my mother touching wood

Now, I love to bust the noog

Every second, feds cuffing up the crook

It’s regular around here

So many moves are made

Even though I’m smooth as the flames

Yeah, I still move the cane

Wishing I can move this way

This is no real life, we call it street life

So much pain, this one’s so cold

This life’s deserted, the guns in violence

There’s so many things out on the road

Some people dying

All this crying

And still trying to find it hard to stray

So, people have nothing

They’re living life

Sleeping out on the streets at night