The Four Owls - Not Like Before lyrics

Not like before
We're gonna tell a little story
It's about me, about he, about we
Not like before
Yeah, yeah, take me back, the owls

Man I only went to school to
Sell weed at lunch time
Two gurners on the tarmac, crushed up fine
Losing my mind
Sniffing lines no attendant sign
Made the habit mine of any drug I could find
All I knew about was crime until
I dropped a few shrooms
Made a few tunes, me and BVA coming real soon
And then it dropped, and nobody listened
Lost but not forgotten was the
Beginning of this mission
I used to be living on
The floor with Freddy T
One of the reasons for the
Malnourished Leaf that you see
He gave me the PC
I used to make the beats 'for this CD
Got passed the torch from Iz and Cool G
Much respect for that
And highfocus is the future
Z, I've got your back
No shotty in my backpack!
Got my queen, no need to chase rat
Your behind while I slowly take over the map
Wheres the owls at? ah!

Many things have changed since
The old school days
Runnin' 'round on train tracks
Sprayin up the trains
Picking up an eighth bag to blaze it in a day
Now I smoke a little less
But, it's indie kush haze
Ill take you back for a lesson
Way back to the Brixton
Mass' open mic sessions avarice spotted me
Thought that I was reppin'
Then we met a little later at
The speakers road in mecka
He took me to a studio in Queens Road Peckham
Recorded force fed imagery it seemed
That it was destined
I ain't seen him in a couple years
But cuz hes still my bredrin
Can't forget about the man who put
You in for a second like verb T
Certified G the mic veteran runone
Blessed me with beats from his collection
Got mad nice on the decks
At every damn event son
Whores and cash, have your back
We rinse up the shows n' that
Supported RA the rugged man
That was classic fact
Reminisce reminisce remember lacing
Tunes wit' chemo up in Brixton lab
Then he moved it down to
White chapel place was nang
Late nights was rammed, man it went to plan
Since then I'm high-focused on the prison fam
Make music move unit's stay reppin' that
Make music move unit's stay reppin' that

At school I never used to go
And stay at home high
That stoned in zone guy
The same and you know why then college
I wasn't really concerned with that
Mainly went to sell ten pound sacks
And chase rats dropped out and went back
But, I still wasn't focused
Started rappin' on beats about how
We be the brokest
For lost but not forgotten then
There was world war three
Then the war ended and we
Still hadn't dropped the CD
But now things are different cos
Kids still pump and listen
To the CD that we give them
Three years ago on the mission
Still leave the page written
Hit the stage with our spitten
Got a contract and learnt how
To make our shit thicker
Cleared our own path like a snowplow
Gained the know how on how to
Get exactly where we want and never go down
And now we're that storm on your horizon
With more tracks laid down than
A fifty year old whore that's still riding

Yo it started back
When I heard Slick Rick and Doug E fresh
I was eight used to play the
Vinyl when I dub cassettes
I spent my teen years weeded out past high
With Gang Starr Wu Tang
Tribe and the Pharcyde i can't lie
I was shy hittin open mics as a kid
But the studio I was smashin it
I had my first record out I was eighteen
Touring with phi life cypher for that
Was like a day dream
Shedded my innocence then started
To grow wise
Grow flow wise I hooked up with low-life
Got some guidance and applied it
Had confidence
With Kashmere and Ghost toured the
Country and the continent
But still I had to keep a nine
To five to keep the bills paid
And quit the weed just to try
And keep my mind alive
Sixteen bars is not enough time
To write my entire life
This is just one installment
Now I'm a proud father, grown responsible
Learnt over years hate kills
Love conquers all
So I look to the future after steppin' back
Make music move unit's stay reppin' that
Make music move unit's stay reppin' that