Ghetto No More
Honestly, I was on a robbing spree
Ended up in solitary, came out
Started thinking logically
My dog said the jailhouse softened me
(possibly) i was the raw type
So poor I never had a score 5
What else but pure crime?
Kicked out of school and still awake before 9
This was before grime, I couldn't spit then
I used to try but I was shit then
I used to listen to them jungle tapes
(Skibadee and them man) , D&B rumble came
I was a target just cause I had a humble face
But I never crumbled, eh, I had my borer
Stick it in a body like it's Flora
Then disappear like Wizadora
Who would've thought that I'd
Become a performer?
(which one of you thought that?)
I left victims in trauma
I was the boy on the front line
Never see me in the corner
Some people tell me I change every day
I never sacrificed this much
To remain the same
You can take the boy out the ghetto
But you can't take the ghetto out the boy
Ghetto no more, no more
Ghetto no more, no more
I'm taking it back to Stratford McDonalds
Twenty bruddas outside - nines
Bats and bottles
Scars on my chin, scars on my shins
From being handcuffed, lying flat
On the cobble, pigs
Usual suspects, crew full of ruffnecks
Who would've knew I was
Destined for musical success?
You ever visualised something as
Beautiful as sunset?
Now ghetto no more's the
Only suitable subject
I'm just a brudda tryna change the game
You, you're just another brudda that
The game has changed day to day
So many people ask me why
I've changed my name
They claim it's for the mainstream
However it may seem
Let me set the record straight
- every step I take
They reminded me I'm ghetto but the
People in the ghetto say
Ghetto ain't ghetto no more
So I'm stuck between
A rock and a hard place
Even I've had enough of me
Some people tell me I change every day
I never sacrificed this much
To remain the same
You can take the boy out the ghetto
But you can't take the ghetto out the boy
Ghetto no more, no more
Ghetto no more, no more
And now it seems like
Everybody's losing respect (why's that?)
Cuh I'm using my head (what they saying?)
They're saying G H, he's changed
He's losing his edge
Them boy first salute me instead
Fame isn't great, my face is bait
And I ain't gonna make them same
Mistakes that I made in
The past but because of music
I won't make em again i'm making a change
Playing it safe
I won't be contained in a cage - I'm free
And it's staying that way (see?)
I went from wigging up apes
To playing in raves
Last week I was on the plane to LA
(first class rudeboy)
And they wanna ask what's happening
I say "nothing much, I'm travelling"
Through air like a javelin
All because I'm talented
Ain't seen the whole world but
My home's a hotel the Hilton, the Malmaison
The Ritz and Radisson
All this without any management
It baffles them
And now it's time to reap the benefit's
And overdose on extravagance
Some people tell me I change every day
I never sacrificed this much
To remain the same
You can take the boy out the ghetto
But you can't take the ghetto out the boy
Ghetto no more, no more
Ghetto no more, no more
