Stormzy - This Is What I Mean

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Now turn on
Oh, oh, what did you mean?

It's a bigger operation
What's with all the speculation?
Had to close the store for renovations
My cousin said, "Stromz, man, they're runnin' out for patience, you know"
Time to make a statement
Time to free my mind of limitations
Finesse the majors, that's my form of reparations
They said, "You can't slide, you're a treasure to the nation boy"

What they gonna do, what they gonna say?
Stormz got that sauce, this that bolognese
Talkin' 'bout the bread, like it correlates
I see you lookin' bothered with your bothered face
Even though we're comin' from a common place
All I see is stars, like we in a wraith
So, give him room to grow, and just give him space
And he could be a young, black Jimmy Nates

Oh, this is clean, this is clean
This is what I mean
I said, "This is what I mean, yo"

All my niggas got it, we unanimous
Cut from different cloth and different calibers
My skeleton is matchin' with my managers
She love me 'cause I'm handsome and I'm talented (boy, boy)
Hangin' off the banisters
Tell me, who's gon' pay for all the damages?
Ah, I'm just reckless like the man, dem is
Talkin' recky, we gon' ask you where your manners is

I said it from a kid, you shoulda listened
I manifest the shit and then it happened
Said that I'ma do it, then it happens
P2J up on the rhythm and it's slappin'
I shout my brother Giggs, that's more than rappin'
Shout my sister Mel, we doin' fashion (sheesh)
Ah, all this work that I've been mashin'
Put your boy in the position where I profit off my passion, alright

They don't know about the times I've bled
Give a fuck 'bout what the timeline said, I do your day streams
In a second, yeah, I shine like Ed
I thank God for the life I've led, then get the wraith clean
I heard them sayin' Grime ain't dead
I'm Harry Styles, the way I fine-line tread, you're goin' mainstream
Mind your business 'fore you mind my bread
If ten milli' weren't enough I make a life pledge, alright (boy, boy, boy)

This is what I mean
This is what I mean
This is what I mean
This is what I mean

Uh, I can't address your niggas on the 'net, they disrespect
They don't wanna give me my respect, it's disrespect
A nigga doin' numbers, what the fuck did you expect?
They charge a nigga fifty every time I miss the jet
Ah, I guess I overslept
If she hold me down, then I might buy her a Patek
The man, dem hold me back because they know just how I get
Please don't hold my money, man, just wire me my check

I make a pay from your mother, 'cause it's lots on the beach
White bitches rollin' in the deep
Nosediving off a yacht, into the sea (blah)
Still, I keep the blicky on me
Bitch, I'm off that thing already (uh, uh)
You know I'm with a ting already

She see me fuck a centerpiece
She might like that chopper sing already
Bitch, I'm off that thing already (it's disrespect)
You know I'm with a ting already (it's disrespect)
They don't wanna give my respect, it's disrespect
Ya'll gon' have to pay your daddy, bag it's off the check (um, aight)

I don't do things the rapper way
All that cappin' on the net, I'll make the man, dem blow a cap away
So, we just let them niggas outta the way
I think I'm Kanye mixed with Donny Hathaway
I heard Sunday's the new Saturday (Saturday)
We praisin' God, I watch my enemies evaporate (hallelujah)
To be honest, I could plan and do you
But I gotta rise away above it, word to Dan Kaluuya

No chance, buffalo stance on my Neneh Cherry
They wanna see the Michael that they see on telly
You, man, just remind me of my girl, why you never ready?
I'm the G.O.A.T but that ain't nothin' I ain't said already
Oh please, all my enemies are dead and buried
I need that Häagen-Dazs, I need that Ben & Jerry's
If we do it, then we do it large, I'm on my Kevin Perry
This ain't the same man who said his head was heavy

(This is what I mean)
Since I hear that no one listen to you
Breddas smoke them because they don't deserve you
(This is what I mean)
Can't keep your name outta your mouth
They say you do this and that, we are tied already

(This is what I mean)
Talk is cheap, I don't do bare talkin'
Dis jiggas are quiet, bredda dey no for tell you
(This is what I mean)
Since I hear that no one listen to you
Breddas smoke them because they don't deserve you

(This is what I mean)
This is what I mean
This is what I mean
This is what I mean, oh
(This is what I mean)
This is what I mean
This is what I mean, oh
This is what I mean, oh

(This is what I mean)
This is what I mean
This is what I mean
This is what I mean, oh
(This is what I mean)
This is what I mean, oh
Tis what I mean, oh