Way Back

[Intro: Shemzy & Jammz]
Yes
You're locked into the I Am Grime show
Hold on, I think we have a caller
Wah gwan, caller? What have you got to say?
Yeah, wah gwan? Like, obviously
I'm listening to your show uh huh
And like, a lot of these guys, they don't know about grime, like (yeah)
They know about grime now but they don't know about grime alright before it was grime but it weren't called garage, you get me?
And man are talking like they know history (you're schooling 'em)
Man don't know history, fam (alright, alright, alright)
Obviously these MCs think grime started with "Pow!"
Alright, do your ting, boss
Alright, cool

[Verse 1]
I started in 2002
Locked onto Déjà, bars on the paper
Way before Kano was a big baider
Before Terror Danjah made "Radar"
Way back when I had Air Max trainers
I was in school, doing sets with Vader
And I never done work in class
I just spat bars till I needed an inhaler
I 'member Déjà on a Monday night
I used to turn into the radio taper
Saturday night was an East Coast ting
I used to rate Demon and Maxwell Ranger
So they can't tell me I don't know about grime
I be like rudeboy, nuh mek me get serious
My dad was a music man
Mum was a UKG raver

[Chorus]
Cause I've been on it since the wickedest ting
Way before Tinch said "back, you know"
Them times Wiley said "Tiger, Tiger"
Now I'm gonna kill 'em with the new school flow
I never used to roll deep regular
I stayed in to listen to the radio shows
Then I heard Esco say "man are murderer"
Then I knew that grime had evolved

[Verse 2]
Remember when Jme first got known
I heard him and Big H on the radio
Way before Chipmunk ever said sho
Meridian came before Boy Better Know
I was at home, hearing about raves
These times, I was too young to go to the shows
I wanted to go, yeah, man, standing just to hear
"5000 volts, it's your own fault"
Whoa, these youts, what do they know?
They just wanna do grime for the payload
But you can't be a vet if you think that "Ps & Qs"
Is the first tune by Kano
Uneducated youts better lay low
Think they can get by with the same flow
They wanna search for all the money in grime
But won't find nothing after the rainbow

[Chorus]
Cause I've been on it since the wickedest ting
Way before Tinch said "back, you know"
Them times Wiley said "Tiger, Tiger"
Now I'm gonna kill 'em with the new school flow
I never used to roll deep regular
I stayed in to listen to the radio shows
Then I heard Esco say "man are murderer"
Then I knew that grime had evolved
Cause I've been on it since the wickedest ting
Way before Tinch said "back, you know"
Them times Wiley said "Tiger, Tiger"
Now I'm gonna kill 'em with the new school flow
I never used to roll deep regular
I stayed in to listen to the radio shows
Then I heard Esco say "man are murderer"
Then I knew that grime had evolved

[Verse 3]
Look, so when you hear this
Better keep calm and just play the garage
First heard house at like '98
Since then, it's been the longest marriage
I don't wanna hear no talk about novice
I've been on this ting since Mystic and Manic
Way before Willy and Diz stopped talking
And the whole scene used to rave in Palace
Yo, so when you hear this
Better keep calm and just play the garage
First heard house at like '98
Ever since, it's been the longest marriage
I don't wanna hear no talk about novice
I was on this ting since Mystic and Manic
Way before Willy and Diz stopped talking
And the whole scene used to rave in Palace

[Outro]
With the badboy style
Hit them with the 1s and 2
With the ba-ba-ba-ba-badboy style
With the raving crew
History lesson
For the day
I'm k-k-k-k-doin' it again
Yeah, it's a vibe, yo
With the, with the raving
With the raving crew
With the 1 2, hit 'em with the raving crew
Enter, enter
Enter
Yo
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
It's all fun, man
There's no more fun in grime no more
Everyone's on this
Screw man and box man in the face ting
Dead that, man