From the Bottom To The Top

Lyrics

[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