Devlin - From the Bottom To The Top lyrics

Devs, OT big up Devilish, 2007

In 5 years time, I've come along way
Since school days
I was in the bad books always
If I weren't at the head masters
Then mugs had me facin' the
Walls in the hallways i spat bars on the DL
The only thing that kept me strong
On all the same roads that feds be on
And back then if we did a crime
Hear the sirens & like let's be gone, damn!
Since then, yeah, I guess a lot has changed
No it ain't old school days
Now I've got a name
Visually I've seen a lot of pain
And back then yeah I let beef
Slide but I'm not ashamed
I was only a kid then
I didn't have no access to
A big black stick then now I might run up on
Your boys and stick them
Snap 'em like stickmen with a
Stick bigger than big ben
Came from the bottom to the top
I'm from a place where the kids threw
Rocks at the bottom of the blocks
Pushin' CD's like drugs
Got mix tape money in my socks
Nah fam, they said it ain’t funny, is it not?
Mugs say they're big then they flop
And it's been a whole year
Still waiting for your mix tape to drop
So, don't mistake the plot

Yeah I'm glad that I came from
The bottom to the top
'Cause back then they didn’t wanna know
Now I can say that I did it on my own
Yeah I'm glad I stuck to
The path that I chose

I've been from Temptation to Flava to Rinse
And the music they savour it since
Now I’m laughin’
I started at crack blocks in Barking
Derelict property with the walls
Caked in shit
Them days, yeah, I was taking a risk
Fell through a glass door
Cut veins in my wrist
I was lucky that my main arteries got missed
In the hospital pissed with
More than one stitch
And this ain't a game, there's no referee
That there could've been the death of me
Now I've got a build on a deficit
17 with big dreams like I wanna
Roll in a leather beams
And I've got heart some ain’t ever seen
Seen what’s possible
Seen where I've come from
Now I'm uncrossable, money in abundance
Shanks and crazed gunmen
Screamin' out London
And I've put in 4 years hard writin’
They put in more time bitin’
And yeah back then I was frightened
Now I'm killin' off the titans
I'm king of the seas like Poseidon
I looked up to the mans in the scene
From double 0 3, when I was 13
My favourite emcees, tables have turned
They ain't got nothing on me, come and see

Yeah I'm glad that I came from
The bottom to the top
'Cause back then they didn’t wanna know
Now I can say that I did it on my own
Yeah I'm glad I stuck to
The path that I chose

I remember days they didn't know my name
But now I'm bait and I've
Only got myself to blame
But, I don't want a nice watch or a chain
You can keep your fame
It's OT to the grave then back again
And yeah I just lost my job
So it’s back to the roads sellin' weed again
He's sellin' white again
They're sellin' crack again
I've got your back again, pure drug packagin'
Didn't think when I was 12 or 13
The whole scene'd show respect
When they heard me
Glad I started early now I make
The whole scene prefer me
They can hate, but they couldn't unnerve me
I'm fixated with making the papers
Roll with Outtakers, I brought up the status
Now you can't break us, even god forsakes us
I watch for the haters

Yeah I'm glad that I came from
The bottom to the top
'Cause back then they didn’t wanna know
Now I can say that I did it on my own
Yeah I'm glad I stuck to
The path that I chose