British comedian Michael Dapaah plays the roles of MC Quakez and Roadman Shaq in his Fire in the Booth freestyle. It is the second Fire in the Booth performed by a comedian after 2015’s R.S.
Dapaah begins the freestyle as MC Quakez, an aspiring UK rapper who thinks he has bars but doesn’t realise h...
[Intro: Roadman Shaq & Charlie Sloth]
Are you ready for this G, yeah?
C'mon, man, I was born ready and dat
Okay, aight, boom
Big Shaq, hold tight, Asznee
Skutnu, Ratnu, Oosna
Hold tight the gyal dem as well, boom
[Verse 1: Roadman Shaq]
Two plus two is four, minus one that's three, quick maths
Everyday man's on the block, smoke trees
See your girl in the park, that girl is a uckers
When the ting went quack-quack-quack, you man were ducking
Hold tight, Asznee, he's got the pumpy
Hold tight, my man, he's got the frisbee
I trap, trap, trap on the road, movin' that cornflakes
Rice Krispie, hold tight, my girl Whitney (Perfect)
On the road doin' ten toes, like my toes
You man thought I froze, I see a peng girl, then I pose
If she's not on it, I ghost, hah, look at your nose
What? You dickhead! Look at your nose
Nose long like garden hose, shhh, you get me?
[Interlude: Roadman Shaq & Charlie Sloth]
Boom, man's gonna come back in (Yeah, yeah)
You know like that? (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
You're feelin' that? (Yeah, yeah, bad, bad)
You dun know, I see you shiverin' and that
Don't get shook man's here (Aight)
You protected-ed, yeah? (Aight, let's do it)
Aight, boom, let's go, boom
[Verse 2: Roadman Shaq]
Hop out the four-door with the .44, it was one, two, three and four
Chillin' in the corridor, your dad is forty-four
And he's still callin' man for a draw, let him know
When I see him, I'm gonna spin his jaw
Take man's Twix by force, send man shop by force
Your girl knows I've got the sauce, no ketchup
Just sauce, raw sauce
Boom, yo, gah
The ting goes skrrrahh, pap, pap, ka-ka-ka
Skibiki-pap-pap, and a pu-pu-pudrrrr-boom
Skya, du-du-ku-ku-dun-dun
Poom, poom
You dun know, Big Shaq, ha, yo, yeah-yeah
Alright, fire-fire-fire in the booth
You get me, man's not hot
I tell her man's not hot, hah, cot
I tell her man's not hot
The girl told me, "Take off your jacket"
I said, "Babes, man's not hot"
Yo, man can never be hot
Perspiration ting, Lynx effect
[Outro: Roadman Shaq & Charlie Sloth]
Yo, you dun know
Dun know, y-you
You look a bit shook, Charlie
You look a bit hot
What's that?
Y-y-ya sweating and that again
Brudda, man don't make jokes with me, Charlie
Aight, aight, aight, cool, yeah
Yeah, man, listen, you're-you're cool and that
Yeah, yeah, dun know
Do you understand what I'm saying?
You're cool and that (Yeah, yeah) but
I know how you look ennit, (Yeah) do you understand what I'm saying? (Yeah)
I don't wanna set the, you know, the goons on you
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah
You know like that? Aight, cool, don't take me for one of these boys and that, do you know what I'm sayin'?
Man's really about it
Big Shaq released Fire in the Booth on Tue Aug 29 2017.
Fire in the Booth is a long-running radio freestyle segment on BBC 1Xtra, hosted by Charlie Sloth. It is similar in vein to American freestyle segments like Sway’s “5 Fingers of Death”, except it features upcoming MCs as well as established acts to showcase their lyricism. The segment is highly resp...
Simply put, a roadman is the British equivalent of a ‘gangster’. Michael Dapaah’s character “Roadman Shaq” plays on multiple stereotypes of a British roadman such as speaking in excessive slang, trapping, handling weapons and wearing puffy coats.
It is often misdefined as a black man who merely lis...
Giggs has shown his approval of the freestyle and subsequent song on Instagram:
This isn’t the first time a song featuring Giggs has been a parody either. A. Squeezy also did a parody with his cover of Whippin' Excursion: Skeppy Excursion