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This Is What I Mean (feat. Black Sherif, Amaarae, Ms Banks & STORRY)

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STORMZY - THIS IS WHAT I MEAN (starring. AMAARAE, BLACK SHERIF, JACOB COLLIER, MS BANKS & STORRY)

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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Stormzy

Vocals

Black Sherif

Vocals

Amaarae

Vocals

Ms Banks

Vocals

P2J

Programming

Knox Brown

Background Vocals

Joel Peters

Programming

Jacob Collier

Background Vocals

Anna Croad

Violin

Cathy Thompson

Violin

Dave Daniels

Cello

Emma Fry

Violin

Henry Salmon

Violin

Jackie Roche

Violin

Jamie Hutchinson

Jamie Hutchinson

Violin

Janice Graham

Violin

Jo Archard

Violin

Julian Hinton

String Instrument

Kirsty Mangan

Violin

Laurence Ungless

Laurence Ungless

Double Bass

Llinos Richards

Llinos Richards

Cello

Lydia Lowndes-Northcott

Lydia Lowndes-Northcott

Viola

Magda Pietraszewska

Magda Pietraszewska

Cello

Martin Lissola

Violin

Natalia Bonner

Violin

Nick Barr

Viola

Paul Livingston

Paul Livingston

Viola

PRGRSHN

Piano

Stephanie Benedetti

Stephanie Benedetti

Violin

Steve Morris

Violin

Tom Kemp

Violin

Victoria Harrild

Victoria Harrild

Cello

Laurie Anderson

Laurie Anderson

Viola

Steve Williams

Double Bass

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Jacob Collier

Songwriter

Michael Ebenezer Kwadjo Omari Owuo Jr.

Michael Ebenezer Kwadjo Omari Owuo Jr.

Songwriter

Richard Isong

Songwriter

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

P2J

Producer

Knox Brown

Co-Producer

Joel Peters

Recording Engineer

Leandro Hidalgo

Leandro Hidalgo

Mixing Engineer

PRGRSHN

Co-Producer

Calum Landau

Assistant Recording Engineer

Dale Becker

Mastering Engineer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

It's a bigger operation

What's with all the speculation?

Had to close the store for renovation

My cuzzy said, "Stormz man, they're running out of patience," yuh nuh

Time to make a statement

Time to free my mind and limitations

Finesse the majors that's my form of reparations

They said you can't slide you're a treasure to the nation but

What they gonna do?

What they gonna say?

Stormz got that sauce, this that Bolognese

Talking 'bout the bread like it correlates

I see you looking bothered with your bothered face

Even though we're coming from a common place

All I see is stars like we in the Wraith

So just give them room to grow and just give them space

And he could be a young black Jimmy Napes

Ah, this is clean

This is clean (Clean)

This is what I mean

I said, "This is what I mean, yo"

[Verse 2]

All my **** got it we unanimous

Cut from different cloth and different calibres

My skeleton is matching with my managers

She love me cah I'm handsome and I'm talented (Boy, boy)

Hanging off the bannisters

Tell me who's gon' pay for all the damages

Aww, I'm just reckless like the mandem is

Talking recky, we gon' ask you where your manners is

I said it from a kid you should have listened

I manifest this shit and then it happened

Said that I'ma do it then it happened

P2J up on the riddim and it's slapping

I shout my brudda Giggs, that's more than rapping

Shout my sister Mel, we doin' fashion

Ah, all this work that I've been mashing

Put your boy in the position, where I profit off my passion

Alright

[Verse 3]

They don't know about the times I've bled

Give a fuck 'bout what the timeline said

I'll do your day streams

In a second yeah, I shine like Ed

I thank God for the life I've led

Then get the Wraith clean

I heard 'em say grime ain't dead

I'm Harry Styles the way I fine line tread

We're going mainstream

Mind your business 'fore you mind my bread

If ten million weren't enough

I'll make a lifetime pledge

Alright (Boy, boy)

[Verse 4]

This is what I mean

This is what I mean

This is what I mean

This is what I mean

[Verse 5]

I can't address you **** on the net, the disrespect

They don't wanna give me my respect, it's disrespect

A **** doin' numbers, what the fuck did you expect

They charge a **** fifty every time I miss the jet, ah

I guess I overslept

If she hold me down then I might buy her a Patek

The mandem hold me back becah they know just how I get

Please don't hold my money man, just wire me my cheque

[Verse 6]

A **** came from the mud

To kissing sluts on the beach

White bitches rolling in the deep

Nose diving off a yacht into the sea

Blah

Still I keep the blikky on me

[Verse 7]

Bitch, I'm off that thing already

Uh uh

You know I'm on the ting already

Centrefold centrepiece

But she might let that chopper sing already (Hmm)

Bitch I'm off that thing already (Issa disrespect)

Ya know I'm with a ting already (Issa disrespect)

They don't wanna give me my respect, da disrespect

Y'all gone have to pay that all in bodies, fuck a cheque

[Verse 8]

Umm, aight

I don't do things the rapper way

All that capping on the net will make the mandem blow your cap away

So we just let them **** at away

I think I'm Kanye, mixed with Donny Hathaway

I heard Sunday's the new Saturday (Saturday)

We praising god, I watch my enemies evaporate

Hallelujah

To be honest I could plan and do ya

But I gotta rise above it, word to Dan Kaluuyah

No chance, buffalo stance, on my Nenah Cherry

They wanna see the Michael that they see on telly

You man just remind me of my girl, why you never ready?

I'm the G.O.A.T but that ain't nuttin' I ain't said already

Oh, please

All my enemies are dead and buried

I need that Hagen Daaz, I need that Ben and Jerry's

If we do it, then we do it large, I'm on my Kev and Perry

This ain't the same man who said his head was heavy

[Verse 9]

(This is what I mean) Coz Ese s3y

If dey no one listen to you

Breddas smoke dem paigons

They don't deserve you

(This is what I mean)

Can't keep your name out their mouth

They say you do this and that

We are tired already

(This is what I mean)

Talk is cheap, I don't do bare talking

Diss jiggas are quiet

Bredda dey no for tell you

(This is what I mean) Coz Ese s3y

If dey no one listen to you

Breddas smoke dem paigons

They don't deserve you

[Verse 10]

(This is what I mean)

This is what I mean

This is what I mean

This is what I mean, oh

[Verse 11]

(This is what I mean)

Oh, I mean, oh

It's what I mean, oh

That's what I mean, oh

[Verse 12]

(This is what I mean)

This is what I mean

This is what I mean

This is what I mean, oh

[Verse 13]

(This is what I mean)

This is what I mean, oh

Is what I mean, oh

Written by: Jacob Collier, Michael Ebenezer Kwadjo Omari Owuo Jr., Richard Olowaranti Mbu Isong

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