[Intro: "interviewer" (Skinnyman)] 

"So Skinnyman, now that you've signed a deal with talkin loud and your currently 

recording your album, how's this altered your lifestyle...?" 

(Let me play this one, tell you exactly how it is in ? 

cause in my life, ain't nuttin nice...check ya blud...) 



[Skinnyman] 

Nowadays I live my life on a day to day basis 

cuz everybody in the whole fam's got cases 

romin the streets that are full of the screw faces 

resortin us back to the blocks that are on the stair cases 

we hope we don't get to face the bases 

who wanna try and raise us to take the papers, laterz 

to what my whole council estate is 

dwellin on the city on top of these sky scrapers 

me? I keep a watch over the whole of my acres 

to those who wanna take us from 5'0's to fakers 

cuz all were tryin'a be is money makers 

so we might have had a chance to escape from some of these derelict places 

were livin life at fast paces 

It's like were gutter rats tryin'a contend these rap races 

so best to tighten up your laces 

cuz this year I'm steppin up a year to fast for you to chase us 

You think id wanna stick around this town 

and have to wait for a crackhead to beat my mum down 

to get a phone call sayin just bring your money now 

by any little ? with a bucket runnnin round 

I don't love the sound of what those haters wanna do to me 

thats why I'm not givin them any opportunity 

for me its not about all of the money and the jewellrey 

survival of the fittest-its life so now its you or me 

and I don't wanna move away from the flats 

but thats they only way for me to get away from these cats 

I sit and wonder why the fuck it has to be like that 

and wonder it would have been like if we blew up in rap 

but thats a dream and me I put reality first 

and yeah its real that these theives wanna steal your mums purse 

does it seem, the whole of this manor is cursed 

like the bubble is boilin and just waitin to burst 

this generations gettin worse-these yoot man are comin up 

nuttins out there for 'em so they just don't give a fuck 

and they gettin to lose for them/they're out on streets late nights confused again 

you put your feet in 



their shoes for them 

and you see what you can do for them 

and you too might screw for them 

and this ain't really nuttin new for them 

a man like you will probably label them a hooligan 

to live good or bad, but me I'm mud cause the hood is bad 

dressin in rags on the ? you know my hood is mad 

we worry bout gettin beat up or stabbed 

now we worry bout the man thats come to shoot up the ? 

the dreams we used to have are gone 

for those hopes are basic needs were in the bottom of the barrel tryin'a fight for lifes necessities 

those older man takin time to give advice to me 

tryina show me just how nice my life could be 

with me id like to share the vision 

but all I see is man on a mission 

my streets are full of friction 

and you can check my diction 

it gets deep everywhere that you go 

cuz theres snakes everywhere in every ghetto you go 

wo wo... 



[Outro: "interviewer"] 

"So there we have it, a live interview from Skinnyman 

outside subterania-the infamous home of hip hop-this is ?...signing out..."