Wretch 32 – Black and British (feat. Little Simz and Benjamin AD)

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1. LYRICS

   [Verse 1: Wretch]
   In all honestly all we’ve got is love
   We can only pay you in visits
   Family orientated I’ll never stray from my siblings
   Heard some war stories when uncle came from the prison
   He was good at making money but bad at making decisions
   Mummy’s got her hand in the pardner to make a shilling
   She’ll have to put an arm and a leg in to make a difference
   Daddy’s out chasing the women breeding the village
   breaking all kinda records to place the blame on the Guinness
   When my mother asked it was never up for discussion
   Some lessons learnt have different meanings for others
   Black history month where they taught me that I was nothing
   In the school of hard knocks where I had to fight for my cousin
   Roll up your sleeves
   Work twice as hard just to please
   Don’t beg nobody fi eat
   And never chat to police
   And on Black Boy lane
   I was caught on my own
   He Told me go back to my country
   I Thought I was home
   Guess I was wrong

   [Chorus]
   Really I just wanna spread love
   Know it’s been a minute
   still think about us
   Always on a wave cause it gets me through
   Really I’m just tryna stay up (yeah)
   Really i just wanna spread love
   Know it’s been a minute still think about us
   Always on a wave cause it gets me through
   When all is said and done
   Don’t want the baddest bitches
   I just really wanna move my address init
   Want my 40 acres with my palace init
   They don’t care about you when you black & British
   Course I got a knife you don’t cut me no slack
   Wanna touch the dreads you don’t know me like that
   Now you colour blind you don’t notice I’m black
   So we stay trapping cause my homie mind trapped

   [Verse 2: Wretch]
   Granny came here to build a future based on pure hope
   But the road weren’t paved with gold
   It was paved with go home
   Imagine being a doctor and they’ve doctored your role
   You’ve got the qualification they ain’t offering though
   You came here to seek employment
   Didn’t come here to clean the toilets
   Money haffi mek now we’re running were seeing boydem
   My cousin as well even my auntie’s on bail
   Fuck you my uncle from hell
   That’s cause you keep touching all the family
   That’s under your spell
   Everyone just turns a blind eye
   when they know you need help
   That’s Black and British when you come from a suffering world
   Stop saying that’s how he is
   If that’s the case he shouldn’t be sharing beds with the kids
   You put our feels to the side
   Bills to the side
   Out of sight out of mind
   Is my dad still alive?
   Step dad arrives
   Devil in disguise Tina
   Wanna ask your partner how it feels to be Ike?
   You put on a brave face
   It’s the bravest I’ve ever seen
   Got a jester for a king and you still a queen
   Lying when they ask why I’m crying
   I kept it in
   Now I’m grown it’s game of thrones
   if I catch him it’s guillotine (I swear)

   [Verse 2: Simz]
   I swear I’d never make my mother cry
   She taught me how to make a bed out of a bunch of lies
   And how a man’s supposed to wear his tie
   I was 12 when the world let you down a dozen times
   When you say black and British what is it that comes to mind
   How do you progress in life when you’re stuck behind
   I had a attitude with my teachers at school
   But soon as I got home I knew that tone could never fly
   Raising a teenage girl no help no channel of support
   No fairy no tales
   Barely could afford
   No wishing no wells
   No hands was avail
   With the hands’ we were dealt

   [Chorus]
   Really I just wanna spread love
   Know it’s been a minute
   still think about us
   Always on a wave cause it gets me through
   Really I’m just tryna stay up (yeah)
   Really i just wanna spread love
   Know it’s been a minute still think about us
   Always on a wave cause it gets me through
   When all is said and done
   Dont want the baddest bitches
   I just really wanna move my address init
   Want my 40 acres with my palace init
   They don’t care about you when your black and British
   Course I got a knife you don’t cut me no slack
   Wanna touch the dreads you don’t know me like that
   Now you colour blind you don’t notice I’m Black
   So we stay trapping cause my homie mind trapped

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   1. Legends!

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   2. Beautiful ❤

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2. Banger tho

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3. This theme song for black people ❤

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4. Kiera Liberati take a bow. The styling in this video is unreal.

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   1. And Luci Ellis – my bad

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5. Please drop more this year. You, vybz Kartel and Damion Marley. Love to hear properly lyrics with meaning.

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