From the Bottom To The Top

[Intro]

Devs, O.T.
Big up Devilish, 2007.

[Verse 1]

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 D.L, 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

[Chorus x2]

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

[Verse 2]

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

[Chorus x2]

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

[Verse 3]

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 O.T 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

[Chorus x4]

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