This Is Me In My Element I Gotta Be Swift With The Verse Cos I'm Elegant Do I Have To Rap Shit To Be Relevant? I Rap Tight Like A Church Chick Who Is Celibate Whats That Coming Over The Hill? Is It Some Banter Is It Some Banter Me? Tryna Get Back To The Old Me Young Savage Dan With A Job and A Goatee But Marns Told Me Don’t Think To Settle Down They’ll Always Be Around Your Soul Is More Important So I'm Working On Myself Instead Of Tryna Link A Girl Cos All My Goals Could Be Flying Without The Curl Ima Try To Keep It Straight and Direct But Anything Can Happen If We Chill and We Connect Same City Same Friends If She’s Looking For Me Same Digits Same Email If You're Booking A G I'm The Kid With the High Hopes Tryna Face The World With My Back Against The Ropes I'm Just Tryna Stay Clean If I Fall Asleep Now Then What Will I Achieve Its A Big Surprise To Be The Age of 19 There Were Too Many Gone By The Age of 17 I Gotta Say I'm Good Cos I Ain't Seen None Of Mine Laying Dormant At A Scene That Would Probably Break Me Down I Wont Even Lie Then My Dreams of the Crown They’ll Probably Die Maybe I’ll Lose What It Feels To Be So Alive To Be The Happy Guy You Look To When You Need Me Most Blank Expression On My Face Like I’ve Seen A Ghost But On To Brighter News You Know S Did It Big With That IOU Wize Did It With The Road Trip Too But Tiny Was The Man Who Brought Me Through

This Life Ain’t No Walk In The Park So I Stand Tall, Holding On To The Art Everybody Wants Out The Hood But The Problem When They Leave They Leave It For Good I Don’t Wanna Be Misunderstood Respect The Hustle I'm Aware That I Should But You Say It Was The Streets Raised You Then Give Back To The Streets That Made You My Support To The World Big Up S, Tiny, Intalekt, Rkay Miraa, YJ, Wize. When I Tell You That They’re All On The Rise Its Only A Matter Before You See Them Shine It All Begins With 8th Or It Begins With Faith Ima Soon Get It Straight Cos My Head’s In A Maze And I’ve Had Better Days But I’ll Revise In Time For The Quest Of My Life While Reciting Some Phife… Dawg… I'm High As A Kite… Rah…. Ima Break The Reality Creativity's Dead? What A Tragedy But Let Me Calm Down But I Heard They Were Feeling My Sound So Let Me Keep The Aggression See My Boy GrittyBear That's A Legend While I'm Rapping I Can Feel The Progression I'm Flying High Like I'm Touching The Heavens Then Again Man I'm Down To Earth I Felt It In My Blood From My Date of Birth Now I Think Its Time For Me To Prove My Worth Upgrade Of The Man Himself Am I Even Proud Of The Man Himself? Working Hard Tryna Find Ourselves In A 8, 16 or 32 A Beat Like This Has Been Overdue Wha U Mean When U Say You Ain't Heard Ah Brew? I Don’t Get Wha U Mean, You Ain't Heard Ah Brew? I'm At The Age Where Gotta Make Choices and Take Care Do I Accept Or Deny Prayer? I'm Not Yet Near To Religion This Right Here Is My True Definition I’m At Peace With The Life I Live I Touch Work, Come Home and Ignite A Spliff I Believe I Can Stay Legit I Gotta Work Hard For The Sake of It An Upgrade Of The Man Himself Yes I Am Proud Of The Man Himself Id Like To Say That I’ve Done My Job When I'm 50 With Kids and A Frosty Watch When I'm 50 With Kids and A Frosty Watch I’ll Be Far From Unorthodox

Smoking Sativa In The Oval Office I’m Looking For A Win While I'm Tryna Count My Losses I'm Tryna Make A Profit I'm Tryna Blow I'm Tryna Be The Bruddah That You Look To Straight After The Show They Say “Daniel U Ain't Made For Rap Just Stick To What You Know And Make Your Name With That” But As Far As I'm Concerned I Got A Knack For Rap So Ima Keep It Going Strong Until I Need A Map I’m Just On My Sway Shit I’m Tryna Find The Answers Hackney Artists Ain’t The First When It Comes Chances But We Stay Ready Stay Heavy We Don’t Fuck With Envy I Can See The Section Of Dreams Is In A Frenzy You Know Me I Just Try To Keep It Friendly Make A Few Tapes So I Can Count A Couple Pennies Use Me As A Rapper For Your Daily Supplementary When All Is Said and Done I Can Leave It Dead and Buried Who The Hell You Think I Do This For? I Do It For My Parents, For My Fam and For My Inner War I'm Tryna Make A Better Me I Wanna Feel How Erykah Felt When She Sang Apple Tree Deep Relaxed and Heavenly I Miss The Days Of Kicking Ball Up Inside The Secondary Thinking Back To When I Wouldn’t Think About It Carefully If My Actions Then Affected You Just Like A Remedy I'm Sure My Words Could Heal You I'm Not Sure If It Was Meant To Be Little Daniel’s Doing Okay Yeah Little Daniel’s Doing Fine See I'm Just Chilling Back and Writing While I'm Rolling and Relighting I'm Just Tryna Break The Silence While I'm On My Lonely Island I’ve Been Here For A Year Or 2 Found Myself In 011 When I Was Clear Of School I Wasn’t Doing To Well But Now I Think Its Safe To Say I'm Doing Okay (OKAY!)

I'm A Big Man I'm Always Ready Tryna School A Couple Pupils But They're Red Already Here I Am Here's My Plan I’ll Be Damned If I Never Can Be Who I Be When I Grace The Lands If I Call Ma Bruddah Will He Understand? That The Name I Was Given Will Become A Brand Or If I Call Nikita Will She Make A Stand? For All The Wrong Doings That She Knows I Never Planned Man Crazy How This Life Works If I Quit The 9 to 5 I’ll Be Quitting Life's Perks I'm Leaving 20 Now I'm Almost Ready 2 Decades Down and I Swear I Ain't Made A Pennie They Never Taught Us Much That Shit Is Heavy All They Ever Told Us Was That *BEEP* Killed Lennie I Got Bigger Dreams and I Got Greater Goals Ima Call This Vibe “The Epitome of Daniel’s Soul” I Think The Kid Was Pushing 9 Years Chilling With My Cousins At My Nan's We Had Some Nice Years Gaming Up From Young Every Christmas No Rain There Nothing But The Son of Joy Family Love Was In The Air I Wanna Fly Back To White City Knock Up On The Door And Let The Memories Flood With Me Pick Up My Controller Realise That I'm Older Call My Cousins Up And Say My Brothers Man I Love Ya Family Ain’t Family Cos They Relatives My Family Are Family Because They Stay Close To The Heritage My Smile Is Brighter & Brighter That’s Because Of You You All Shaped A Soldier That’s How My Role Models Do My Family Family Ain’t Family Cos They Relatives My Family Are Family Because They Stay Close To The Heritage My Smile Is Brighter & Brighter That’s Because Of You You All Shaped A Soldier That’s How My Role Models Do My Family

I'm Usually Rapping On Some Cool Shit Usually On That Laid Back Flow Cos Its Cold When I'm Zoned But Let Me Introduce You To My New Shit I'm Telling You Now That This Is Well Writ I'm Telling You Now This That Kinda Shit You Gotta Have The Skill For Ina Pick Up My Bricks And Go And Build More Cos I Ain't Finished And I Ain’t Living The Life I First Dreamed of When I Was Trippin' When I Was Digging In My Nursery Chillin' But What A Smashing Life The Kid Is Finally Fucking Living I Call It Chun-Li The Way I'm Tall, Alive and Kicking And I Ain’t Ever Quitting This Is Welcome To Britain Don’t Get Caught By The System That’s Some Innocent Wisdom Where The Guilty Run The Street But Never The Prison We Call These Niggas Police I Swear Its All Division So Damn The Coalition And Fuck The Opposition You Ain’t A Leader Till U Listen, Show Some Intuition They May Listen But They Never Hear You Know I Started From The Bottom They Ain’t Nowhere Near Wait This Is A Movie Where The Premiere They Got Their Feet On Bloody Carpets I Can See The Tears The Only Time I Feel At Peace Is When I'm Wrapped Up In A Sheet A Big Zoot and My Notes And I'm Lost Up In A Beat Whatever Comes To Mind At The Time It Is Mine Like I Got A Rhyme After Rhyme Half The Time I Mean I Got The Time For A Rhyme When I'm Chilling Out My Future’s Full Of Doubt Like 9 Grand A Year But Will They Even Let Me Steer? Or Will I Be Working That Shit Per Hour Every Year? U Tell Me Better Yet I Need To Show & Prove You Know Life Is What You Make It And To Make It Is My Move I'm Rapping For A Reason I'm Toasting To The Season But Never Ever Voting For A Demon You Know What This Is In This Life We Need To Show & Prove Never Give In To Submission Gotta Make Your Move Always Hoping For Them Better Days Oh Yeah Them Better Days I’ll Be Prouder When See The Day

Its Dynamic I'm Reporting Live See They’ve Been Waiting For A Real G To Come #INSIDE They Say The Verses Are The Sound of The Uni Life Well Then I’ve Got A 16 Just To My Delight They Be Saying That The Kid D Is Hella Nice Well Then As Long As I'm Cold You Can Hold The Ice My Aim In Life Is To Reach The Highest Of The Heights See The Sights Wife A Fucking Spice When The Price Is Right I'm A Carefree Homie And The Mind Is Bright I Can See You’re All Hoping For My Sole Demise I Can See It In You’re Eyes You’re Lying In Disguise And Then You Try Chastise To Me That Just Implies That When I'm On The Rise You’ll Compromise Monopolize Then You’ll Try Apologise Well G Not Tonight Cos I'm Twenty With Ambition I'm Focused and I'm Driven Fuck With DMP You’re Gonna Need An Inquisition Rapping Is A Tough Road The Only Way To Blow If You Stick To That One Code See I'm Tryna Keep It Real In My 16s I'm Telling You It Was A Myth When I Was 16 But I'm A Young Wise Man With Some Time To Waste I Already Found Ma Bae I Wanna Fly Away Did I Just Say Bae? What A Sly Disgrace. Instead I Think I’ll Buy An 8th And Just Fly To Space I Just Wanna Stay Wavey Stayed Waved Up Stay Humble Not Lazy But I Don’t Wanna Blow If My Persona Gets Crazy I Hope I’m Like Kojey Radical Dear Daisy… I'm Writing You This Letter Telling You I'm Trying To Be A Grown Up and Better Telling You You Don’t Have To Return Any Sweaters Keep It All Cos I Know The Boy Can Do Better

See This Is Something That I Really Needed Cos I’ve Been Missing Out On Rest I Swear I Feel Defeated I’ve Never Felt Defeated This Is A Change Up In The Game But I Ain’t Never Felt The Same Man Its Crazy How This Boys Grown And I’ve Been Thinking Bout My Old Phones Thinking Bout My Old Zones Rapping Is My Stepping Stone I Swear I Would’ve Never Known If It Weren’t For The Beats All I Heard Was Slash Freddie J He Made It Complete Then Came Mr Tinyman Then Came Mr YJ, Mr Dilla And The Sound of Dan I Felt A Presence On A Stage I Felt The Lessons In My Brain Telling Me Rap Could Really Lead Me To A Plane "Never Mind Its A Phase” I Really Doubt It Is All I Wanna Do Is Amaze And Maybe Smoke Id Wiz And Maybe Handle Biz So I Can Look Out On The World And Say I Took The Piss See This Vibe Is All I Really Needed Everyday I Think I'm Losing When It Comes To Rapping But Then I Drop A Tune And People Hit Me Back And I'm Just Tryna Tell A Story In My Verses I'm Just Tryna Put These Beats Up In A Herse I'm Just Tryna Get My Point Across I'm Growing As A Adult In Society Tryna Think Of Ways To Beat Anxiety Looking At The Script Like I Don’t Really Fuck With This So Now I’m Onto To Lemon Haze Where I See Comfort In These Days I'm Just Really Living Life I'm Smiling Everyday Cos I Got Summer On The Way So I'm About To Turn The Page I'm Acing All My Classes Touching Up My Learning Lessons From My Peers Leaves The Light Inside Me Burning Now I'm Off The Bumpy Road I'm Back Inside My Home Temporary Leave Is What We Do For A Degree Time Is All It Takes When You’ve Got A Lot At Stake But Ima See My Goal Before My Only Spirit Breaks See I’ve Been Saying There's A Movie To This Life I'm Living Its Like In Every Song I Make I'm Giving You The Visions Let Me Take You On A Journey Where We Chill n Smoke In Guernsey Wait That’s Kinda Quirky Let Me Bring It Back Let Me Take You On A Journey Of My Bruddah Jack Thinking Bout The System Cos He’s Studying That Bruddah Pac Heeding All The Warnings That He’s Airing On His Deepest Tracks Thinking Of The Day When We Will Load It Up and Then Attack Couple Days Past And Now He’s Stuck Depressing He’s Thinking Bout The Bills Pays While He Attends His Lessons His End of Adolescence It Seems To Tempt His Question Like “Could This All Be A Blessing or Just A Tired Lesson?" I Say You Never Know He Says Its Got Me Low I Tell Him Look At The City And Find A Place To Go Or U Can Tackle The World And Bring A Girl You Know 5 Years Later and Now His Future’s Got A Sunny Glow

Let Me Recollect My Thoughts Sit Down With Some Dilla And Reflect On How The Sample Talks A Mirror To The Soul My Life It Takes A Toll Until I Notice That Us Youths We Play A Role But I Don’t Wanna Talk About The Same Shit Like Talk About Ranges I’d Rather Talk About The Way I’m Changing My Innocence Has Faded I'm Too Smart To Ever Be Degraded I Think That I'm The One Who’s Been Upgraded I'm Faded Music Is The Motivation Money Is The Aggravation What Are We To Do? Cos We Keep Pushing And We’re Trying Hard Me I Got My Crew What Should We Do? Maybe We Hit A Dance Shout My Bruddah Dan He’s Got A Plan I Wanna Play My Part Me I Love The Art I’ve Made A Start I Need To Lock It Down If You Love The Sound Spin It Round Cos I’m Off The Charts Yeah Im Underground But I’ve Never Heard Of Stepping Down Ay We’re Coming Up Ay We're Coming Up [Star - Cloude Atlas] [MP - Cloude Atlas]

I’m Always Scheming While They Change Their Minds And I’m Just Tryna Get Ahead While Their Still Wasting Time Truth Be Told, I Probably Wrote About A Page Of Grime Now I'm Onto Soulful Claps Because I Think Its Time Aiming To Please & Smoking All The Trees Thinking Bout The Nights In Dam The Air Fill Up Wid Cheese I'm A Young Man Enjoying My Youth And I Just Wanna Be Enlightened U Can Show Me The Truth Or I Can Show U The Way Why Don’t You Come Out and Play? Or Have A Drink, Whatchu Say? Cos I Ain't Tempted to Stray No Matter What They Portray See This Is Me Everyday I Know You Came Here To Slay I Know You Came Here To Slay And Ooh Babes I Gotta Tell How It Really Go I Gotta Tell You That I'm Working Hard For All My Woes I Gotta Tell U When Its Time To Pack Its Time To Go And That'll Be The Day I Finally Got The Chance To Blow This Ain't My Only Verse That’s Ever Spoke The Real I'm Taking Steps In Life And My Hands Placed On The Wheel But I Find Myself Thinking On The Past Thinking Of My Times In Uniform Or Even Times Inside A Dance Harrow Road Settings Coz I'm Fly Tees On And When We Came Inside You Know The Vibe Seemed Strong But Its Always Prone To Beef And Then The Vibe Seems Long And Then It All Seems Long So Tell Me Where We Went……. Wrong Aiming To Be But There Ain’t No Guarantee Society Is Only Missing Out A Referee Why Don’t We See This As Strange? Why Don’t We All Make A Change? And Maybe Then Cop A Range I’ll Roll A Zoot We Can Blaze I Be Like Dae Dae I Ain't Fucking Wid Dem Crazy Essays Yo I Just Wanna Get Paid And Make My Island A Rave U Can Get It If U Really Want It But Life's A Factor and The Only Prophet.

Let me hit em up With something vicious I wanna talk about The dank that's rolled up in my rizla Wheres the RAWs at? Wheres the scores at? I need a fat bag of all that And if u smoking green I'm a support that And I am proud to say That when I toke my zoot I see a brighter day I wanna turn the page And tackle anything that's in my way u think I'm lazy Here's a turn of faith U think I'm lazy Here's a turn of faith I work my 9-5 And even do some 9-9s I do my uni work In hope to keep the dream alive And now I'm rapping more Oh yeah I'm rapping more I'm always looking for some ways To even up the score I'm always Writing my verses in a pensive mood And I'm just tryna get my point across Without the views Of the less appreciated The more abbreviated The people that don't matter In this world of conscious rappers Pay attention to the words that they recite Cos every word is knowledge Even only just for the night While you're strapping up your zoot Or even eating your food Ima try to give u something That would light up the room In whatever way I just cant wait for a better day Blessings to my nephew While I'm sipping on a glass of Wray Oh Happy Day Oh Happy Day Oh Happy Day I swear to everything above I'm tryna pave the way And I'm tryna clock the game But all they seem to know is fame I'm tryna speak the truth But I'm still standing in the rain The only thing I've gained From me rapping everyday Is that I'm getting better And I'm humbled by the praise But support is always welcome And I don't wanna notice When I look at where I have fell from So Ima take this chance Before they laugh it off like Nelson And Ima make GOOD music While they pack these pricks and sell dem

Let Me Tell You Where It All Began See I Was Roughly Thirteen I Never Had A Plan Do I Wanna Be A Lawyer? Do I Even Like Employers? I Started Acting Up I Was Confused and Out of Order Exclusions Started Stacking So You Know I Got To Packing I Was Up and Out Never Thought That This Would Ever Happen But Here I Am But There We Were It Was The The Runaway You Know The Guarantor By 16 You Know I Done A Lot of Growing I Was Letting Go Of All The Anger I Was Holding I Was Focused On The Bigger Prize Cos I Was Letting Go Of Demons That Would Spread Their Lies And I Was Smiling More I Felt A Different Kinda Love In This Year That Shit Was Unconditional But Tainted With A Fear So We Let It Lie Without The Lies From The Troubled Times to Troubled Times 16 Years of Age When I Thought Rapping Was A Phase I Weren't Smoking Lemon Haze But I Said Uni Was The Page Me My Momma Cool Since I Was Finished With The School I Was Done With All Their Rules So It Was Doing Better Blues Now I'm 18 College Done With Ease And Distinction Star Was 3 Education Is The Key But It Will Always Start With Me See I Was On The Righteous Path Brightness In My Heart I Began To Make The Art But Then I Moved Away And Her Trust Was Always Low She Couldn’t Keep The Faith The Gunners Waited 9 Years But U Can’t Keep The Faith? So I Turned 19 Upon A Bigger Stage I Was Passing All My Classes But Without A Wage I Was Developing Myself Just At That Vital Age Before A Teen Turns 20 And Escapes The Cage Her List of Pros and Cons It Could Inspire Rage But Now I'm Focused On Another Day Here Is Where It Ends I'm Just 20 From The Ends I’m Living Out Of Ends I Can Hardly Check My Friends But Its Cool Cos We Working Hard and Living Good I Think We Can Really Touch The Sky We Really Could I’ve Been Tryna Work It Out But That Ain’t Living Life That’s A Law Up Itself I Swear I Will Abide Well If That Is Common Sense U Think I’ll See The Light Cos I’ve Already Caught A Glimpse And Fam My Futures Bright Trust I Think I See A Mix I'm Talking Black and White She’s The Only One I See Just Like They’re Out of Sight And If I Billit Up With Her I Might Be Up All Night And She’s The Type Of Girl To Ride It Out and Back A Fight But 3rd Year And I'm Still Passing All My Classes Let Me Make It Clear I'm Done With 2nd Chances Gotta Shout My Cuzzie Gman With The Dances But Have A Good Life Mr Francis

I'm Just Tryna Build My Team Up Tryna Build A Dream And I'm Just Hoping That They Keep Up I'm Just Sitting These Lectures, Bored Thinking Bout The Other Avenue That Weren’t Explored If The Debt Is Really Worth It? Like Will I Really Learn Shi? Will I Be Employed? Or Will I Feel Destroyed? That I Wasted Time On A Dream That They Couldn’t Teach No Matter What The Dream I Swear Its Something We Can Reach I Don’t Mean To Preach But Its Something That We Need To Hear We Seem To Dream In Fear We Need To Think and Be Aware I Won’t Be Happy Till Im In The Clear And I Can Give The Wants and Needs That Come Every Year My Ambition’s Through The Roof They Need Shelter Let Me Volunteer They Only Teach Us How To Work For Someone Else That's How They Keep Us In Line But Its Our Time To Shine No Matter What The Climb I'm Able I’ll Be Getting Mine I Keep Asking Are They Taking Me In? Cos I’ve Been Dreaming Up A Storm But They Ain't Letting Me In I Keep Asking Are They Taking Me In? Cos I’ve Been Dreaming Up A Storm But They Ain't Letting Me In I Keep Asking Are They Taking Me In? Cos I’ve Been Dreaming Up A Storm But They Ain't Letting Me In So Ima BANG Down The Door And Let The Story Begin Hello Hi My Names Daniel I Was Born To Win Woah Another Cliche Line Don’t Acknowledge My Sins I Just Wanna See U Strip Collect My Fortune To This I'm Just Tryna Keep It Real You Know The King of Madrid I Just Wanna Say We Made It Like The God From The 6 Me I'm The Protege Of Yesterday But Still Get Caught Up In The Western Ways Hoping That This Clubbing Shit Will Change Guess We Got A Little Spliff To Blaze Even A Drink To Raise I Wanna Raise A Toast Then Again I Think I'm In A Maze (Pause) I Think I'm In A Maze Let Me Turn The Page Until I Reach The Part of Better Days Throwing Money In A Rave Throwing Parties Let Em Play Thinking Back To When I Was The Protege of Yesterday I Keep Asking Are They Taking Me In? Cos I’ve Been Dreaming Up A Storm But They Ain't Letting Me In I Keep Asking Are They Taking Me In? Cos I’ve Been Dreaming Up A Storm But They Ain't Letting Me In

I’ve Been Learning How To Meditate Read My Horoscope And Turn The Page Hoping It Resonates So Every Day Is A Step Towards Finesse This Is Something That I Rarely Confess We Just Love The Days Without The Stress And I Just Love The Days When I Am Blessed In My Mind I Swear I'm On A Quest Sand Below Feet Instead of Trainers On These London Streets I Aim To Be The Only One Standing Without Defeats But I'm Just Tryna Tackle My Degree So I Can Travel Round The Globe Rapping Poetry Or I Can Create A Couple Films Debut Globally Welcome To My Book of Strife I Just Wanna Give My All To This Page Of Life So I Can Look Back On My Youth And Say I Did It Right And I Look Right At My Wife And Say We Got The Life And I Can See My Children Grow Up To The Greater Heights This Is This Is This Is This Is Where I Wanna Be I Know Just The Type of Man That I Wanna See Cos You Know The Future’s Something That We Gotta See But What’s Understood Ain’t Gotta Be Explained No We Can Never Take A Peek Or Even Beat The Game This Is Life and Everyday Could Go Cook Up A Change I'm Just Aiming For The Sky Or Beam Me Up To Space I'm Just Aiming For The Sky Or Beam Me Up To Space