Released: August 30, 2014

Featuring: Santi (UK)

Songwriter: AJ Tracey Santi (UK)

[Chorus]
Thinking about it
Know you're thinking about it
When we got here
How we fucking got here
They recognise
They just recognise
I'm in a life without a home so this recognition's not enough
And I don't care about nobody else
'Cause I've been on these streets for too long, too long, too long
Baby I've been on this too long
Let's get it

[Verse 1: Santi]
Listen, smoke weed, bill it up and I toke it
Wave like Santz, come wave like the ocean
Mix chip with the potent, smoke 'til I'm zoning
What you know about life when you're floating?
Ride on opponents, finding the culprit
Low on bread, I roll up and I toast them
Got so many flows, let me know does it go in?
Many foes, ghosts, I'm frozen
Fucking motions, rise to the challenge
Two jaybags come riding in wagons
Certified Santz, I stay with the cannon
Eat your food or stay in the famine
You know me, get smoked like a salmon
Flight pilots, I stay in the cabin
No ends, I walk with my faction
If it kicks off then know that I'm backing
I don't need no team that have got me
No pressure, I walk with a Ox B
You can never hot me, dying is...
With [?] smoking the brockli
Ignore feds, I smoke where the cops be
You can never stop me, talk then I'm off G
You know me, I lurk where the blocks be
Or chill and play P4 if I've got weed
They say your home's where your heart is
I say life's a bitch cah I'm heartless
I was with my bitch but I call myself an artist
I was in the dirt before you knew about hardships
Shoebox stacks, what you know about grafting?
Learned to smile, life's easy laughing
My big brother's in the camp for blasting
My name's who I am so you can never tarnish

[Chorus]
Thinking about it
Know you're thinking about it
When we got here
How we fucking got here
They recognise
They just recognise
I'm in a life without a home so this recognition's not enough
And I don't care about nobody else
'Cause I've been on these streets for too long, too long, too long
Baby I've been on this too long
Let's get it

[Verse 2: AJ Tracey]
Listen, ay
Recognition, I need that
Before I grab on the sutting and I beat that
Four bars make man wanna wheel that
Fuck that DJ...
Recognition, I need that
Before I grab on the sutting and I beat that
Four bars make man wanna wheel that
Fuck that DJ, wheel that
I've got love for my squad and they love me
In beef, fly through with a pumpy
On point so a nigga can't bump me
Dot, dot, dump off, that's dumpy
I will stick to my Yak, no Mandy
It ain't cool, not everything's dandy
They've got my bros in scrubs on a dumb ting
When I heard, rudeboy I was pumping
Same time I'm thinking about Jay man
Shit's changed since back in the day man
White girls on my block wanna rate man
Dumb opps talking on the phone wanna blaze man
Man wanna beef me, I will raise them
458 that'll blaze them
Opps don't phase me but I know I phase them
Tell a fuckboy get back in your station
YG's on my block man, I raised them
Gave them a job, put work on them
Now big batty gyal wanna twerk on them
[?] on my strip but I'm swerving them
I've got Jay with the food, he be serving them
Dee with the sift ting, he be merking them
It's a shock when the dargs dem snake it
It's cool, keep it strong and I make it
Keep patience, I'ma do this
Fly straight through the pain and the nuisance
See I've gotta go trap for the new things
Same time I've got love for the music

[Chorus]
Thinking about it
Know you're thinking about it
When we got here
How we fucking got here
They recognise
They just recognise
I'm in a life without a home so this recognition's not enough
And I don't care about nobody else
'Cause I've been on these streets for too long, too long, too long
Baby I've been on this too long
Let's get it

AJ Tracey

AJ Tracey is a British rapper and grime MC. His dad’s a former rapper from Trinidad, and his mum is a Welsh former drum and bass DJ. Based in Ladbroke Grove, West London (although he was raised in the south just like FT and true say, his dad lived in Tottenham), AJ started making waves in the pirate radio scene in 2014, although his songs under the name Looney date back to 2011.

Speaking to GRM about his stage name, AJ

Basically when I used to shot, I couldn’t give my real name. I used to wear loads of Armani, so I called myself AJ. The Tracey comes from this guy called Stacey in my ends. Everyone used to be/is scared of him so I thought, if a man has a girl’s name and he’s still scaring people, the maybe I should try doing it so I can be THAT guy.