This Is My Demo

Ladies and gentleman Welcome to the end of the beginning My name is Sway AKA Little Derek And right now I'm about to take you To the very beginning Before the after Prior to the present Before the hype Before the magazines Before the buzz And before the mix tape Back to the blood, sweat and tears Growing up I had too much on my mind I needed a way to get all of this crap out of my head So I chose music This is my beginning This is my introduction This is my dream Listen very carefully This is my demo Yeah, it's tha arrival of Decihper Live from this London dungeon (underground) That's where I've been puttin' it Down for my people on the North side (Get up) East side (Get up) West side (Get up) South side (Get up) Inside (Yeah) Outside (Yeah) Get up, get up, get up, get up (Underground) Under That's what I'm sayin yeah? And for years That's how long I waited here And I'm prepared Back then people never wanted to hear me though That's when I had to shoot a 'lil video Now I'm giving you the album Here we go! Ever since I was a 'lil kid about six, seven, eight, nine or ten I always wanted to be bigga than Big Ben But dreams can easily come to an end When your livin' in the big L-o-n-d-o-n The city dat never sleeps so how do we dream? 'Lil kids forced to think like men and the big smoke just gets you lean To get a good start in life I took a run up instead of pickin' a gun up I picked up a pen, and I shoot for the sky Run up on the clouds That's why I got one up on you clowns Now I'm becomin' da talk of da town Just yesterday I was walkin' around Tryin' to figure out how I'm gonna come up on the crowd Now I'm in the middle when the gathering crowds are sayin' (Sway) The beginning is still in my memory (Sway) I was sittin' in my school assembly (Sway) Never listen to what tha teachers tellin' me (Sway) I was thinkin', "Will I live to seventy?" (Sway) And if I die will the world remember me? (Sway) Who's my frends and who's my enemies? (Sway) Who will love and who will envy me? (Sway) Now I'm ready for whatever is meant to be (Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) I put my blood sweat and tears in this music (Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) I will not fail (Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) You're listening to (Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) This is my demo Once upon a time in a place called Harrogate Lived this average African black kid tryin' to get up in this (industry) Flat 23, Brook Road, he would practice rapping rapidly This rap MC had a lot to say with a little time so he rapped quick Not to say he never had any frends, but he never had many Never had a penny to access the inside 05-09-82 Flew back to the Motherland where he grew Flew back to the other land he was to (to) English boy with African accent 05-09-92 Using the music rooms at his school Recording rhythms then he rid 'em with riddles Now he's an African boy with an English accent Now he's 22 And your listening too His first official LP debut And I got the energy (Uh) I'm not jus' an NIG (Uh) I'm still hungry and I'm eag (Uh) And I'm more ready than I've ever been (Uh) Because I've been pursuing this thing from school Since commodore Atari and Amiga Remember me sir? I ain't in it to be number two Five albums that's what I'm gonna do Five albums then I'm done Then I'm through The enemies all can bite the dust This is all before the hype, the buzz This is all before the wife, the lust The lies the thugs with knives and guns It's entertainment for you, but it's life for us It's time to buzz, my niggas (Sway) The beginning is still in my memory (Sway) I was sittin' in my school assembly (Sway) Never listen to what da teachers tellin' me (Sway) I was thinkin', "Will I live to seventy?" (Sway) And if I die will the world remember me? (Sway) Who's my frends and who's my enemies? (Sway) Who will love and who will envy me? (Sway) Now I'm ready for whatever is meant to be (Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) I put my blood sweat and tears in this music (Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) I will not fail (Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) You're listening to (Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) This is my demo Our Father, who art in heaven Hallowed be Thy Name Thy kingdom come Thy will be done On earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive those Who trespass against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil For thine is the kingdom And the power, and the glory For ever and ever Amen I've got angels on my Nokia I'm out here, and I got no fear No foes or no phobias So all those plottin' with the obeahs And voodoo deres no hope for yah Hang yourself I got rope for yah I said deres no hope for yah Hang yourself I got rope for yah 'Cause God would never let the devil harm any G's And when I'm in the dark read Psalms 23 I'm trying to do good on the path for the beasts A place where the bad boys are the police Trapped in between the Imam and the priest And I can't see If I'm gonna be in the Church with a cross around my neck Or in a Mosque with a Quran and a palm full of beads (Sway) The beginning is still in my memory (Sway) I was sittin' in my school assembly (Sway) Never listen to what da teachers tellin' me (Sway) I was thinkin', "Will I live to seventy?" (Sway) And if I die will the world remember me? (Sway) Who's my frends and who's my enemies? (Sway) Who will love and who will envy me? (Sway) Now I'm ready for whatever is meant to be (Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) I put my blood sweat and tears in this music (Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) I will not fail (Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) You're listening to (Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) This is my demo Charlie boy Ah, ah who is that? Oh, it is I your brother Koffi What are you doing outside in the dark, in the height of the night? Oh Koffi, I'm planning to travel, I'm planning to go abroad So you are planing to escape the village, that is a taboo Nonsense Koffi, you shut up, you idiot You just forget about taboo, just forget about taboo You too, what are you doing here anyway? I was going to do a shit, when I smell your filthy armpits And I follow the smell all the way to here Shut up, you bastard Who is bastard, who are you, anyway where are you going? I'm going to Buckingham Palace, London to eat champagne with the queen Charlie you didn't even have I cedi to embark on such enormous journey Nonsense Koffi, you forget about cedis, just forget about cedis How are you going to get there? Ehen, I'm going to make it myself, jump in the river and swim And I'm not going to stop untill I see white people Eh Charlie, you are truly great Oh Koffi, you too are also great One day you are going to be the U.N. secretary Me? Thank you Charlie thank you so much, I you are so grateful Oh kai, don't you worry, anyway I'm going to go now, bye bye Bye bye, Charlie bring me fish and chips