1: (K-Lash-Nek-Off) As strikes and thunder pounds Over the skies of east London town K returns from the underground Signified by the people's trumpet sounds Yeah, the system, it tried to me down But I been on my before Onyx was flinging guns around Blood, and tears for years Feels my career's been in the dumping ground Yeah, is how hunger sounds and I'm the hunter now Lash the lion heart, A.K.A. the man behind the mask For ten years straight, I've been raising the bar Tryna breathe the life back into this art So why try and par? When you'll meet the same as that lion Scar This game is full of two-faced lyin' ras Who sell their soul and arse just to climb the charts Yea, but me, I put in too time in the graft Refinin' my craft for labels to me for a minor advance K-Lash, mimin' on trance Now picture Dr. Dre beats lash with Starks It's all fate and I got mine in my They're all snakes, let 'em die in the But who what the future holds? N.W.O. soldiers will probably shoot me cold All because the truth was You should I did it from the heart
I'm still here, pushin' after several I'm still here, standin' strong, never in I'll be still here, after the settles and clears I'll be still here, after the sweat and the tears I'm still here, pushin' several years I'm here, standin' strong, never in fear I'll be still here, the dust settles and clears be still here, after the blood sweat and the tears
2: (Lowkey) I don't do for the happy ravers or the aggy haters I do this for the and the gladiators Do this for those whose lives you cared about Can't pronounce their names, their origins or their Those brought up around and sadness Who adjusted and found normality in the Fight the power 'til I'm out of breath Malcolm X You empower the powerful, I the powerless They'll play you on the radio if you rap about a Gucci But rap about the government; you might as well shoot Industry fairies say I rap about conspiracy Just to the fact they lyrically fear me Got that eye of a tiger, the heart of a The of a lifer, my stance is defiant I rise like a phoenix, from the ashes My is inconvenient for the masses Though we are equal, I an imitation I live for my people and die for I stand as a visionary; have got plans of killin' me To literally me physically like Aborigines Hannibal with the mask, an animal the bars I'm grappling with my shackles, I it through my art it in the ambience, champion, heavyweight My life is nothin' but my pride is that you can never take They I'm elusive or think I'm a nuisance I swear these major labels think I'm a stupid Keep your 360's convincing these dudes with Like give you the blueprint for pimpin' my music I say that like K-Lash, he's another Every from gettin' scared to my brother dyin' Spit all of it with or a big audience the blood, sweat and tears, I stand victorious
I'm still here, pushin' after years I'm still here, standin' strong, in fear be still here, after the dust settles and clears I'll be still here, after the blood and the tears I'm still here, pushin' after years I'm still here, standin' strong, in fear I'll be still here, after the dust settles and I'll be here, after the blood sweat and the tears