I know I got religionI belong to the laws and crewYou see we fought and we get happyThat’s the way we push them throughOh, have you been triedHave you been tried in that fire?I heard bullets sing higher than mariah in choirSpent a lot of time trappin’, now I’m tryna retireBut the sh*t runs in my blood and I’m the guy they requireAnd these guns bring nothin’ but prison and death, stillAll my ni**as just admire the fireBro squeeze and he miss, but we admire a trierFinesse king, you can never liе to a liarBut fred got the fire, I firе for daysI gotta write them in my notes, they be ignitin’ the pageGrindin’ on cold nights, puttin’ light to the flameNow there’s no flame that can melt the ice in my chain, yeahI really put the ice in rice for the ‘caineMe and santan, you won’t see nothin’ like this againThat’s my young boys again, on the glide with the flameI just really hope your block came with fire-escapesBefore my entrance, I took the fire exitTried and tested, about twenty times arrestedTwo times guilty, no comment, I guess they guessed itCouple times bail, no forensicsThis a easy pendant, I don’t need a necklaceWe stay protected and connectedIt’s the energies I’m blessed withAnd now they watchin’ like netflix, had me doin’ next sh*tTryna get rich, but what’s rich?Took more losses than borisI sold more boxes than the post-officeTwenty-one in jail, it turned me so solidWhy you think my vision sick, I changed the game in my brainAnd sold roboticsIf you fell in my fire, you probably roast on itHeat up the stove, I put hope on itCah they don’t care ’bout our lives, I put my soul on itI’m done tryna be somebody to some nobodiesI’m bein’ so honest, and they don’t know porridgeIf I get burned while I’m watchin’, higher learnin’Guns bustin’, tyres turnin’, that’s a russian and a germanThat’s your phone ringin’, you can hear the beepYou won’t be saved by the bell when you hear the screechAnd it’s so deep, open, oceanThis man escapin’ some shells they can barely seeMe and bro raisin’ hell, we gon’ share the heatNow put us in the same cell, we gon’ share the sleepAm I my brother’s keeper?I’m my brother’s leaderI’m the eldestThe one who had to make a name so the bells ringSo nobody would trouble my siblings in this whirlwindMy older cousin wasn’t known for nothin’Never had no one I could call, but I was old in somethin’I’m diggin’ deep with tool like I’m known for plumbin’Somethin’ in your chest like it’s robitussinWord to arsonist, I burn all thisI stood in front of all three dragons and heard “Dracarys”And now we’re jumpin’ out g-wagons and murkin’ partiesMan are comin’ out with bangers and dirty dancin’Nobody puts baby in a cornerI uplift my girl, like I’m swayze in the waterAnd if it’s already written, maybe I’m the authorSo accustomed to the fire, I get shivers when I’m naked in the saunaHow, many times have they mistaken me for scorcher?I’m lookin’ in the mirror, sayin’ “Justin, just cool, huh”Send ghetts downstairs and tell them “Just bring me water”And tell ghetts I put somethin’ in the formulaI’m focused, I don’t need to burn the kushThis is moses speakin’ to the burnin’ bushI stood in front of the fire and learned to cookFinished my verse and never heard a hookRiskiest numbers, this jungle, stick through your youngersHe’s hungry, picked off the fungus
Kept humble, slipped him a hundredYeah, lived in a dungeonThose airmax, which ni**a stung them?Can’t walk in my shoes, you could be riskin’ a bunionThe government’s twistedI cover this shift to cover this christmasForget them old friends, I’m done with those bi**hesThey color coded my brothers and sistersRun the rhythm, you’re a brother, but you run the rhythmTry accusin’ me of colorismBlinded ’cause you look at me with tunnel visionI was fallin’, but I’ve gone and risenIs this ni**a trusty or sideshow bob when he’s creepin’ on krusty?Streets keep me tusslin’, people disgust meRacist disease, that sh*t that disgust meDon’t touch me on the streets with the sweeper’cause the streets pretty dustyAnd I’ve always had love for genuine people that bust meSantan and the gang advicer, I’ma check him out, I’m a analyzerShe was callin’ me an antagonizerLet me sanitize, where’s the sanitizer?Just flutter by, he said “Giggs can you handle this?”He said “Float like a butterfly”I bring truths, but they love a liePlans, I’m the man you should run ’em byIn the fire, been triedAffected the way I been wired insideYou can hide or glideI could’ve been deportedThat’s the definition of a “Fight or flight”You can type all you likeI know about homelessImmigration, they took me from my mums armsF**k a gun charge, two swords, I’m a roninBłaszczykowski, I’m tryna score with the polishPain in my eyes, plans of me stayin’ in the guideWith a vision that will changin’ my lifeCrimes on the rise, hates on the riseFeel like everythin’ but my mum’s pay’s on the rise“Did you come through?” that’s the questionAffording a burner was never mans problemAdoption, we couldn’t find homes for the weaponsBy the station, we got polls, no electionIn the fire, been testedBefore I had money, it was time I investedNothin’ change, still time I invest inWatch-game delicate, tutankhamun, it’s money in skeletonsAll I gotta do is point, they’re gonna sever his headAnd tell **** that we’re better as friendsNights that I can’t remember with some people I could never forgetCaza cruz, you could bet a nusr-etDon’t make me call a young gunner in the back of a pedSlappin’ a lead, civilians grappin’ your friendsThere’s chaos on the main roadThey called choppers and pedsAll because of some sh*t that you saidI got killers with meAnd they love me, they make a mans heart stopThe sh*t you find horrifyin’ gets laughed offI’m like meekz, bro, I won’t stop, can’t stopYeah, it’s kinda different when the fire’s what you start fromIn the fire, yeahHave you been tried in the fire? Oh yeahHave you been?Do your research to travelDon’t see, don’t really see the corners of the world that ain’t really interest youAnd then, ehm, you know, ’cause then you meet new peopleAnd then those people will tell you new storiesThen you become a voice for the voicelessI mean, you should ask daniel, really, where he goes to find himself’cause I don’t know anything, I’m just speculatin’More importantly for you and your familyYou then get to ask the questions and answer the questionsAbout where you were madeLike “Where you come from, where you’re goin, london, lagos, la”The journey is the film