The Beta Band Rap

Lyrics

We're the Beta Band and we're nice and clean We're always polite and we're hardly ever mean Times have changed, we used to be smelly We lived in a squat 'til a punk nicked our telly Since we've been signed we eat real good We always wash our hands and chew our food Quashie's rotis are our favorite dish Served spicy with chicken or fish In the world of fashion there's two shining lights Nancy and Caroline they helped us alright And Gordon Anderson played a big part Just when the Beta Band was about to start It all started in London town When we gave our demo to Phil Brown Then we met Miles at Parlophone And let him hear "Dog's Got a Bone" He said go to Chalk Farm and put it on wax The next few weeks was spent cutting four tracks A manager was needed to make us complete Miles knew a Wigner we should meet, uh huh huh (Dedicated to KRS-One All the people out there The GZA, the RZA, the RZA Here we go now) His name was Dave with the broken specs A quiet manner and enough respect We met at Nachos, cleaned the plate A meal like that yo we never ate Then we met Brian and the Microdot crew Martin, Matt and John Platt too Adrenalin Village was the place to be We had no money so they got us in free The first thing Dave did as boss Make us play Water Rats in Kings Cross We played five songs, got credit for four We went down well so we decided to tour Next up, yo Henry and Nich Making the show go without a hitch Up and down the country and side to side The big yin driving yo bumpy ride Miles gave us an album deal We said yes and went for a meal Drinking champagne at EMI The irony almost made us cry Big love, motherfucker Big love, stone cold love, stone cold love, man (Get your braces on, hillbillies, c'mon!) All over Fife, man This one's for Scotland, man, Scotland (Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, we're going into the next section now, it's gonna be rock 'n' roll, man, c'mon Here's - that - sound, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo) May I please have a little bit more? Just a little bit more? Robin Jones, has got the stone- Well, we went to Wales and we fannied around We ended up with "The Patty Patty Sound" With an open mind, we went to achieve Chris Allison, he cut it all on Neve We hummed and we hawed and we came out pissed Twitting on about the old Neve desk [?] Well, we started to get known on Radio 1 When Jo Whiley got a fax from my mum Mary Ann Hobbs is a very nice lady I paid a man there every day We lived in this house, it was record-free And we started to record our third EP With a lot of sax and a mardi gras All we needed was a little soul Well, we thought this time we were on a good start Well, we made a new groove and gave it some heart (yeah we did, baby!) [?] We called it Los Amigos Del Beta Bandidos, baby Oh yeah Alright