[00:01.260]All I see is guns and staffs, guns and staffs[00:04.810]Mandem running up on shook ones in cafés[00:06.770]In year 6 man were getting level 1's in maths[00:08.830]Couple grams later... He's better with numbers[00:11.200]Getting a gun 'cos[00:12.370]Youngers are wetting up youngers[00:13.950]Parent's debt is humungous[00:15.320]Dead end wherever you run[00:16.700]'Cos hunters are setting up stunters[00:18.560]For stepping up funds if they don't get enough punters[00:20.510]No we don't want to be them old men in the bookies[00:22.970]Betting our funds as drunkards[00:24.910]Smoking loud but forgetting our lungs are fungus[00:27.360]Watching the effects of poverty getting our younger's youngers[00:30.780]Shots sound like fireworks when I wake up at night[00:33.490]Mum screaming out the window trying to break up a fight[00:35.870]I don't know anyone who was born and raised here[00:38.000]Spent all them days here without no incidents[00:40.630]So when I watch a child grow into this, I know it's not about coincidence[00:44.910]You go into this mad world with nothing but a phone in your hand[00:48.410]Just a handheld but no ones holding your hand[00:51.180]You can read about the ghetto and watch the film 'Roots'[00:53.200]But you won't get it until you cotch with real youts[00:55.450]Watch ghetto girls play hopscotch in little boots[00:57.550]Even when the food ain't top notch it still shoots[00:59.850]Are we like this 'cos we're here? Or are we here 'cos we're like this?[01:04.950]Either way life wasn't meant to be like this[01:07.590]But we're meant to be fighters[01:08.620]**** an identity crisis[01:10.120]I'll make it work myself, it's fine the world is mine[01:13.530]But the way you man deal with me is a myth[01:16.080]The only thing you want to bill with me is a spliff[01:18.030]Like shouldn't we be working on an empire?[01:20.500]Don't we have youths we gotta send higher?[01:23.520]I see progress, you ain't gotta try to vision[01:26.030]If change don't come, I'm making it my decision[01:28.880]That's why we got you taking the time to listen[01:31.270]Remember George told you we're gonna run tings[01:34.050]One nation of young kings[01:37.590]Remember George told you we're gonna run tings[01:41.330]Young nation, Young Kingz[01:48.770]