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lyrics
Verse 1:
They ain't got the formula, they're for my lashes
Former last in form I have I'm for my lasses forming lasting
Forms to last with all of ya, or former ya
Say they have the taja but have sanity not to call mya
Reminiscing about the time I used to walk to fans in
Town to sell my merch and they would ask for autographs with
Pictures and some went as far to have the OoRITE! tatted
On their skin, shiz - big up my supporters man
It’s crazy how they play me as the chorus man
Like I won't strip the beat bare like it's... Woah
Pause like traffic cos that bar is more than graphic for the masses
Talking rapping skill chill, G course I have it
They forgot I can park rap cos I slaughtered garage
I'm like a crocodile cos snapping is force of habit
Don't know about C’s flow ill make you walk the plank with
Anchors attached to ya legs, the sea floor can have him
Chorus:
I’m from a place where people really think they know me
Even ya enemy pretend to be ya homie
And yeah I grew ain’t nothing new this is the old me
I’m coming through with something new but I’m an OG
Don’t underestimate me
Don’t underestimate me
Don’t underestimate me
Don’t underestimate me
Malik MD7:
Rah, I came so far
100 with the plug but for drugs never charged
Veteran OG I fathered their bars
Still haven’t received my fathers day card
Speed through the garage in ya funky house through the front door
And you can hear the baseline from the 4 4
That’s my niche from the jungle its Malik before
Grime was released but in rap I’m elite
The streets, was sinful, revengeful it’s
Mental but a gangster I never pretend to
I wrote what I been through in pencil then turned into the
First Brum rapper the country got into
Its simple - respect last if you step cross
That thin line, so don’t take farse
Ta’rarse without the gunplay
You’ll be dead before I start just like my part in 1 day
Chorus:
I’m from a place where people really think they know me
Even ya enemy pretend to be ya homie
And yeah I grew ain’t nothing new this is the old me
I’m coming through with something new but I’m an OG
Don’t underestimate me
Don’t underestimate me
Don’t underestimate me
Don’t underestimate me
supported by 7 fans who also own “Underestimate (feat. Malilk MD7 & Odd Priest)”
Manga is the only one out here making pure, forward-thinking Grime like it used to be. No cash-in nostalgia, no catering to radio plays; just pure lyricism and cream-of-the-crop production. Remember when Grime had humour and humanity? When MC's had personality and originality that was uniquely British? Before autotune, German whips and 'manaman sells crack and manaman will shank ur mum' became the norm? This is like that. Golden.
Big up Manga - keep doing your thing. You deserve to be massive
Joe Harris
supported by 7 fans who also own “Underestimate (feat. Malilk MD7 & Odd Priest)”
just bare sick the entire album init, bare out of order to make me pick 1 and that, bellz. big up Lewi for being actually grimey as fuck on the produccy romabohemian
Grime, a descendant of garage, dancehall and hip-hop born roughly a decade ago on the streets of the UK, is now entering maturity, with several of its stars finding themselves experiencing the trappings (and the traps) of major label success. But there’s also an increasing universality in its subject matter and themes, and a playfulness … Continue reading Album of the Week: The Surgery EP → Bandcamp Album of the Day Dec 5, 2011