Being Poor is Expensive

Ooooh yeah Aight, look What's the meaning of life? Get rich or die trying, or live medi' 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, and 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 cos Of manor beefs cos 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 & Cheese or 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 20 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 'cos where I'm from there's many Dan Kaluuyas many Tosins, Damsons 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? (Gunshots) Let me down easy, give me time, to Get over you baby