Album Cover This Is What I Mean

This Is What I Mean

STORMZY

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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