Time It Takes

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Huh.

I'm effective 'cause I've been here long.

To withstand this game, you gotta be strong. Yeah.

Do you feel strength when you look in the mirror? Say it's fair, but you grind all day.

You do it when you're hungry, breakfast, dinner. Back then I wrote 16 bars at a hunch.

I weren't on the net back then, but the playground jumping my Nike Dunks.

Thought I was rude in school back then. Tell the teacher, "What do you want? " MP3 play Ghetto Coyote.

Melting pot on a Sunday. It's puff, puff on a Monday, eating roti. That's what my

Punjabi friend showed me. This is England, this one's proper.

This one's bound for the bound, bound for the Reno. True ones know I didn't stutter.

This was the days of the People's Elbow, Spear and Stone Cold Stunner. I was in, I was in. . .

I even know where I was that summer.

Wanna be mentioned with the greats, you know the time it takes.

Wanna run this race, I know the time it takes.

Still full speed, no brakes, but I know the time it takes.

You gotta find your place. Yeah.

Wanna be mentioned with the greats, you know the time it takes.

Wanna run this race, I know the time it takes.

Still full speed, no brakes, but I know the time it takes.

You gotta find your place. Yeah.

Grown out of the clashing and diss tracks, but the man dem are vibrant in this track. People say I pioneer sounds, and now these man wanna nick that.

Know that meme with the man with the shovel that's close to the diamonds? Well, I dig that.

When you're so close to the gold, can't sit back, you can't recline.

All of a sudden wanna call me for the advice, have to decline.

It's not free when you wanna get a piece of my mind. DND for peace of mind.

Last time I checked, I'm a decent find. Back then I was in Cricklewood, Broadway, NW2 3HY.

Handsome, prime me, shirt and tie with an MP3 and the old school grime.

Not much changed in my current state. It's still dope ear caps when I'm writing lines.

I'm in Shoreditch, high street, deep in the life. It's a cycle as I am riding a line.

We don't get bitter when another man shines. I write for time 'cause I got a vision, I grind.

Make it happen, not wait in line.

Wanna be mentioned with the greats, you know the time it takes.

Wanna run this race, I know the time it takes.

Still full speed, no brakes, but I know the time it takes.

You gotta find your place.

Yeah.

Wanna be mentioned with the greats, you know the time it takes.

Wanna run this race, I know the time it takes.

Still full speed, no brakes, but I know the time it takes.

You gotta find your place. Yeah.