It’s a London Thing

[Intro: MC Styles sample]
It's a London thing
It's a London thing
It's a London thing
It's a London thing

[Verse 1: Jammz]
Dons
I do it for my London dons
All of the north side and the east side dons
All of the south side and the west side dons
I'm from a place where the city don't sleep
So man can't roll with the tek time dons
Hungry, you know me, I've gotta get mine, don
I don't wanna be a struggle or a get-by don
Zone
Anywhere I go, I come back to the zone
Raised in the estates and the flats in the zone
Way too many talented cats in the zone
Remember back then, it was all on top
And you easily could've got rapped in the zone
Couldn't ever roll on your Jack Jones in the zone
But it's mad cuh we still go back to the zone

[Pre-Hook: Jammz]
Cuh this one's for my Gs in the north, Gs in the west
And all my Gs in the south
Can't forget Gs in the east
That keep it lowkey and don't speak when police are about
Living on the minimum wage, trying to escape
But we just can't leave it and bounce
You can take man out the ends
But I still know where I am

[Hook: MC Styles & Jammz]
It's a London thing
Tell 'em it's a London ting
I do it for my Gs tryna go from the bottom to the top
Tell 'em it's a London ting
It's a London thing
Tell 'em it's a London ting
I do it for my dons in the rat race tryna get gwop
Tell 'em it's a London ting

[Verse 2: Jammz]
Ends
For my whole life, man's lived in the ends
Gotta be aware and think in the ends
Observe and I watch things in the ends
We're living in the most paradoxical place
Cause there's so many opposite things in the ends
A lot of poor and rich kids in the ends
There's a lot of small and big cribs in the ends
Small kids move big bits in the ends
Act broke and dress like they're rich in the ends
It ain't nature when I tell a man
There's a lot of snow, trees and sticks in the ends
You ain't gotta go to a Homebase store
If you wanna buy boxes and bricks in the ends
Got no love for the pigs in the ends
Impossible, man can't snitch in the ends
Corporations move poor people out their homes
And they claim that they're fixing the ends
And apart from pushing up all the rent prices
These Starbucks ain't doing shit for the ends
And they must know that we ain't rich
But there's still bare William Hills in the ends
So fuck these Conservative leaders cause
Not one of them cares for the kids in the ends

[Pre-Hook: Jammz]
Cuh this one's for my Gs in the north, Gs in the west
And all my Gs in the south
Can't forget Gs in the east
That keep it lowkey and don't speak when police are about
Living on the minimum wage, trying to escape
But we just can't leave it and bounce
You can take man out the ends
But I still know where I am

[Hook: MC Styles & Jammz]
It's a London thing
Tell 'em it's a London ting
I do it for my Gs tryna go from the bottom to the top
Tell 'em it's a London ting
It's a London thing
Tell 'em it's a London ting
I do it for my dons in the rat race tryna get gwop
Tell 'em it's a London ting

[Hook: MC Styles & Jammz]
It's a London thing
Tell 'em it's a London ting
I do it for my Gs tryna go from the bottom to the top
Tell 'em it's a London ting
It's a London thing
Tell 'em it's a London ting
I do it for my dons in the rat race tryna get gwop
Tell 'em it's a London ting

[Verse 3: Jammz]
Welcome to my bits
Seen it all before but still there ain't anything like this
And every other street's got a parallel lifestyle
Call this shit Londonitis
You can't deny this
So much shit going on, you don't know the half of it
That's why I laugh at it
All in plain sight but it's coming like you closed your eyelids
Cuh more time, my city's not nice, it's
Gritty and violent, gunshots firing
Daytime little kids riding
Night time, stepping and sliding
Catch man, grip him and slice him
A girl screams in the street, innocent citizen
Pulls out their phone, not to phone police
But to film the whole thing
And ask "why's he like this?"