1980-Estelle

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:时间戳工具V2.0_20200810] [offset:0] [00:00.33]I grew up in the 1980's [00:02.43]In a 4 bedroom house [00:02.97]My family my Grandma [00:03.66]3 or 4 Aunties [00:04.01]Uncles and Brothers [00:07.41]In and out of prison daily [00:09.54]At certain times when there was no heat [00:10.35]We stay under covers [00:10.95]There was life like u never seen [00:12.99]Grandma taking extra people in [00:14.70]Come dinner time It was tippin' 18 [00:16.47]Boil a big pot of water on the stove to take a bath [00:21.03]Rub my face with Olive Oil [00:22.35]All my mates used to laugh [00:23.55]All my Cousin's moved out [00:24.48]We all got divided [00:26.19]As I started to get older I seen God providing [00:28.80]I've seen 0 last 3 months solid [00:30.06]I got my first pair of nikes we were still eating porridge [00:31.68]Me and my cousin used to play Mel &Kim [00:33.60]Practising dancin' [00:34.38]Coming down the stairs and ting [00:36.00]I touched Africa and came back darker [00:38.58]Knowing myself [00:39.00]Feeling my roots a little bit harder [00:40.89]1980 year that God made me [00:41.79]89 I started to get by [00:42.36]99 I started to write rhymes [00:43.02]Walk with me reminice my life [00:44.13]So then we moved up [00:44.97]I thought I was the Fresh Prince [00:46.65]Dynasty was re runs and Dallas was faded [00:48.54]With 3 beds this time and 6 kids [00:49.29]We got a doggy that dog loved to s**t [00:50.25]My brother got his first pair of LA Gears [00:51.84]He thought they were to take pictures of instead of wear [00:53.76]I started hanging out and my jeans got tighter [00:56.64]My weird neighbours set their own house on fire [00:58.38]Church was All day every day and every week [01:00.39]That's where I learned how to sing [01:02.70]Hearing that pastor Preach [01:03.87]Benediction was all we went for [01:05.25]So we could run home and play connect 4 [01:07.05]Mum worked late and we learnt to cook [01:08.25]Rice peas chicken and stew pea soup [01:09.03]In the room watching Kung Fu films [01:10.23]And Cleopatra joans [01:10.92]Wishing we were cosby kids and the match stick girls [01:14.55]The man downstairs was dead for 3 weeks [01:16.38]His own cat started eating him [01:17.34]The house starts to wreak [01:18.18]That's when we moved out [01:19.44]And our house was bigger [01:20.91]We had a large garage and the attic was killer [01:23.31]We used to pray for 3 hours in the mornin' [01:24.75]Sitting on the school bus [01:25.62]Believe we was yawning [01:27.09]All our hair was stuck down to our foreheads [01:28.86]Jam curls splits dorags and pin curls yes [01:30.33]Sexy boys walking round showing interest [01:32.10]In what I don't know coz we all had flat chests [01:35.49]Don't think we never mastered the Kid n Play steps [01:37.62]Doowop for days in the bogle yep [01:38.55]But this is just the beginning of my life right [01:43.74]9 kids a house and one life time [01:45.69]Yo the beginning of my life right [01:49.95]9 kids a house in one life time