[** feat. sewuese:]



[intro: ~child~]
Ladies and gentleman*
Welcome to the end of the beginning

My name is sway
A.k.a little derek.
And right now

I'm about to take you
To the very beginning
Before the after

Prior to the present
Before the hype
Before the magazines

Before the buzz
And before the mix tape
Back to the blood sweat and tears.


Growing up i had too much on my mind
So i needed a way to get

All of this crap out of my head
So i chose music.


This is my beginning
This is my introduction
This is my dream.


Listen very carefully
This is my demo.


[sway:]
It's da arrival of decihper

Live from this london dungeon
(underground)
Dats where i've been puttin' it

Down for my people on the
North side
(get up)

East side
(get up)
West side

(get up)
South side
(get up)

Inside
(yeah)
Outside

(yeah)
Get up get up get up get up.
Un-der...

(underground)
Dats wot i'm sayin yeah?
And for years

Dats how long i waited here
And i'm prepared
Back then people never wanted to hear me though

Dats wen i had to shoot a lil video
Now i'm giving you the album
Here we go!

Ever since i was a 'lil kid about 6 7 8 9 or 10
I always wanted to be bigga than big ben
But dreams can easily come to an end when your livin' in the big l.o.n.d.o.n.

The city dat never sleeps so how do we dream?
'lil kids forced to think like men and the big smoke just gets you lean
To get a good start in life i took a run up instead of pickin' a gun up

I picked up a pen and i shoot for the sky
Run up on the clouds
Dats why i got one up on you clowns

Now i'm becomin da talk of da town
Just yesterday i was walkin around
Tryin to figure out how i'm gonna come up on the crown

Now i'm in the middle when the gathering crowds are sayin:

(sway)

The beginning is still in my memory
(sway)
I was sittin' in my school $$#embely
(sway)
Never listen to what da teachers tellin' me

(sway)
I was thinkin' "will i live to seventy? "
(sway)
And if i die will the world remember me?
(sway)

Whos my frends and whos my enemys?
(sway)
Who will love and who will envy me?
(sway)
Now i'm ready for whatever is ment to be.

(sway [x20])
I put my blood sweat and tears in this music
I will not fail
Your listening to
This is my demo.


Once upon a time in a place called harrogate

Lived this average african black kid tryin' to get up in this
(industry)
Flat 23 brook road he would practice rapping rapidly

This rap mc had a lot to say with a little time so he rapped quick
Not to say he never had any frends but he never had many never had a penny to acces the industry
05/09/82: flew back to the mother land where he grew flew back to the other land he was too english boy with an african accent
05/09/92: using the music rooms at his school recording rythems then he rid 'em with riddles now hes an african boy with an english accent
Now hes twenty two
And your listening too
His first official lp debut

And i got the energy (uh)
I'm not jus' an n.i.g.(uh)
I'm still hungry and i'm eag (uh)
And i'm more ready than i've ever been (uh)
Because i've been persuading this thing from school
Since commodore
Atari and amiga

Remember me sir?
I ain't in it to be number two
Five albums that's what i'm gunna do
Five albums then i'm done
Then i'm through
The enemies (uhhh)
Can bite the dust

This is all before the hype
The buzz
This is all before the wife
The lust
The lies the thugs with knives and guns
It's entertainment for you but it's life for us
It's time to buzz my ^!$$%s.


(sway)
The beginning is still in my memory
(sway)
I was sittin' in my school $$#embely
(sway)
Never listen to what da teachers tellin' me

(sway)
I was thinkin' "will i live to seventy? "
(sway)
And if i die will the world remember me?
(sway)
Whos my frends and whos my enemys?
(sway)
Who will love and who will envy me?
(sway)
Now i'm ready for whatever is ment to be.
(sway [x20])
I put my blood sweat and tears in this music
I will not fail
Your listening to
This is my demo.

{left side islamic prayer}
{right side christian prayer}

I've got angels on my nokia
I'm out here and i got no fear
No foes or no phobias
So all those plottin' with the obeahs
And voodoo deres no hope for yah
Hang yourself i got rope for yah
I said deres no hope for yah
Hang yourself i got rope for yah
'cause god would never let the devil harm any g's
And when i'm in the dark read psalms twenty three
I'm trying to do good on the path for the beasts
A place where the bad boys are the police
Trapped in between the imman and the priest
And i can't see
If i'm gonna be in the church with a cross around my neck
Or in a mosque with a quran and a palm full of beads.

(sway)
The beginning is still in my memory
(sway)
I was sittin' in my school $$#embely
(sway)
Never listen to what da teachers tellin' me
(sway)
I was thinkin' "will i live to seventy? "
(sway)
And if i die will the world remember me?
(sway)
Whos my frends and whos my enemys?
(sway)
Who will love and who will envy me?
(sway)
Now i'm ready for whatever is ment to be.
(sway [x20])
I put my blood sweat and tears in this music
I will not fail
Your listening to
This is my demo.