Being Poor is Expensive

Ooh yeah

Aight, look

What's the meaning of life?

Get rich or die trying, or live meady and die

Naturally, gradually, atrophy, actually, back where we live, had to dream

Getting outta there, gotta do a mazzalean

Might even have to Bohemian Rhapsody it

Everybody wanna check you and grab your queen

Get your ches' bored casually, done

Dirty and splash wid bleach, get

Lead in your head, escaping unleaded, gargantuan feat

North West is gasolined, for a Patek Phillippe

Man'll jump on you like a trampoline, gotta bounce

Man are starving and have to eat, got food in your yard, and slip it might be bon appétit

any day of the week of the year

Could turn into Halloween

That's bruddas at your door wearing masks and a bag of sweets

Man 'av got rockets in their pockets, not handkerchiefs

And end up in the newspapers but rarely the magazines

To capture these, tales, need more than Bayeux Tapestries

These brudda's rap the streets but their POV fantasies

I got allergies to them Ali G's

Wearing ballys chatting greaze

Air to my ears, cah their chatting breeze

Used to buy kebabs down at Ali B's then stopped 'cause of manor beefs

'Cause Dan going KFC sadly ended in tragedy

That's why I go Comptoir and grab a tagine

A barbeque ribs, a shrimp, and a mac and cheese, stay home

Season up food and cook, just a gyal and me

Or go to my aunts grab a soup, a yam and dasheen

Brudda's like to say it's all love, that's a fallacy

They'll kill where you're loved in reality

Guaranteed, contempt bred from familiarity

When you're a black man like Mallory, that's normality

That's why I keep myself to myself, I'm in my shell like a langoustine or a lobster

That's twenty years before the films I was doing winning Oscars

I didn't need the movies to be surrounded by them monsters

I didn't need Guy Ritchie, to be surrounded by them mobsters

From NW the same as any other yout' but conscious

Knowing I was lucky is weighing heavy on my conscience

'Cause where I'm from, there's many Dan Kaluuyas, many Tosins

Damsens in distress just looking for other options

Could be a John Boyega or a Damilola

Even if you're not involved the zones involves ya

And it never stops when you're older, think it's over?

Let me down easy, give me time, to get over you baby

Mind the gap, between the train and the platform