1980

They say that everything you go through in life
 That's what you become (well then)
 If thats the case yeah
 (If that's the case yeah)
 I'm becoming number one
 Listen
 It's Estelle
 (West Kent)
 What?
 Listen
 Yo
 I grew up in the 1980s
 In a four bedroom house
 My family, my grandma, three or four aunties
 Uncles and brothers in and out of prison daily
 Certain times when there was no heat you stay under covers
 There was life like you never seen
 Daddy taking extra people in
 Come dinner time it was tippin' 18
 Boiling a big pot of water on the stove take a bath
 Rub my face with olive oil, all my mates used to laugh
 Then my cousins moved out and we all got divided
 Started to get older I seen God providin'
 I've seen fifty pound last for three months solid
 I got my first pair of Nikes we were still eating porridge
 Me and my cousin used to play Mel and Kim
 Practicin' dancin'
 Coming down the stairs and ting
 I touched Africa and came back darker
 Knowin' myself
 Feelin' my roots a little bit harder
 1980 year that God made me
 '89 I started to get mine
 '99 I started to write ryhmes
 Come walk with me reminisce on my life
 1980 year that God made me
 '89 I started to get mine
 '99 I started to write ryhmes
 Come walk with me reminisce on my life
 So then we moved up
 Thought I was the Fresh Prince
 Dynasty was re-runs and Dallas was faded
 With three beds this time and six kids still
 We got a dog and yes that dog loved to shit
 But
 My brother got his first pair of LA Gear
 He thought it was to take pictures of instead of wear, what?
 We started hanging out my jeans got tighter
 My weird neighbours set their own house on fire
 Church was, all day every day and every week
 Thats where I learnt how to sing hearing that pastor preach
 Benidiction was all we went for
 So we could run home and play Connect 4
 Mum worked late and we learnt to cook
 Stars and lemon stew pea soup
 In the room watching kung-fu films and Cleopatra Jones
 Wishing we was Cosby kids and the Matchstick Girls
 1980 year that God made me
 '89 I started to get mine
 '99 I started to write ryhmes
 Come walk with me reminisce on my life
 1980 year that God made me
 '89 I started to get mine
 '99 I started to write ryhmes
 Come walk with me reminisce on my life
 The man downstairs was dead for three weeks
 His own cat started eating him
 The house starts to reek
 That's when we moved out and our house was bigger
 We had a large garage and the attic was killer
 We used to pray for three hours in the morning
 Sittin on the schoolbus believe we was yawnin'
 All our hair was stuck down to our foreheads
 Jam and splits, durags and pin curls, yes
 Sexy boys walking round showing interest
 In what I dont know cause we all had flat chests
 Don't think we never mastered the Kid 'n' play steps
 Doin wop for days and the bogle yep
 But this is just the beginning of my life right
 Nine kids a house and one lifetime
 Yo, the beginning of my life right
 Nine kids a house and one lifetime
 1980 year that God made me
 '89 I started to get mine
 '99 I started to write ryhmes
 Come walk with me reminisce on my life
 1980 year that God made me
 '89 I started to get mine
 '99 I started to write ryhmes
 Come walk with me reminisce on my life