Akala - Welcome To England lyrics

Welcome to England
Part of so called Great Britain
But ain't a fucking thing great
About the way we're living
For me it's hard to see
How we're perceived over seas
It's believed we sip teas
And speak like the Queen nigga please
The streets will suck your blood like a leech
A lot of shells
Ya get wet but real far from a beach
Dole queue, fifty pounds a week
Ends don't meet
If ya like me even your mum's
Done hustled more than weed
Times are harder
We get dads but few get fathers
And we still pray but shit, get few answers
Every single area with an ethnic majority
Full of drugs, guns and poverty
Getting to thirty is a lottery
And the government
Deceiving the white working classes
Into believing they're supportive to
Us black bastards
Bullshit! Like we're living so cool
Go to your local fast food
Take a look at who's serving you
And the schools are bullshit too
So we're weighing out grams
I'm strange amongst the mans 'cause
I got some exams i grew among youths real
Nice with the knowledge
Yet I'm the only one who finished school
Let alone college
Our role models ain't doctors
But shottas who pop hollows
Chefs that cook food that'll kill
You if you swallow
So addictive once the wicked thing holds you
You're never right
Can't begin to count the lives I've
Seen consumed by the pipe walking ghosts
That sold their own soul for them rocks
And mandem shot them rocks, just to cop rocks
'Cause the shining kind of rocks
Make sluts suck cock
Along with jocks and repping their
Ends by busting gunshots it's on top
You cannot tell me all is not lost
Grown man is busting shots just
'cause they're dying for props
That's why, public displays
Guns spraying in raves
But most of these youths can't shoot
So innocents hit by the strays
Our, future is fucked, that much is obvious
And I'm
Far from perfect so I make no promises
'Cause every day create more Doreen Lawrences
So it's fake
When they make out like all is positive
I gotta keep them things and
Be willing to bust them
Niggas is ignorant, no discussion
You'll get murdered for nothing
A pregnant woman, got kneecapped
Over a car crash
Ten year old boy stabbed and left bleeding
To death in his own flat
Man is warring over manors not even drugs
You'll get plugged
For stepping on the wrong toe in clubs
You wanna know how real it is?
I'll tell you with ease all you gotta do
Look at the last two New Year's Eves
One just passed
Four teenage girls went out for a blast
Two never came home
Machine guns that were blast
The year before
A man survived a shot in the chest
Bullet pierced the wall
Put the gunman's own friend to his death
And what's funny
Is that we ain't even shocked
This shit happens every day
So we just shrug it off
And that's a basic introduction
To Britain's black community
No Puffys or Jiggas 'cause we got no unity
That's why, half the world don't even
Know that we're here
Yet we're living the same struggle
Our mothers cry the same tears
And of course
I want my kids to have a better life
But for now i gotta survive