Ladies and gentleman

Welcome to the end of the beginning

My name is SwayAKA Little Derek

And right now

I′m about to take you

To the very beginning

Before the after

Prior to the present

Before the hype

Before the magazines

Before the buzz

And before the mix tape

Back to the blood, sweat and tears

Growing up I had too much on my mind

I needed a way to get all of this crap out of my head

So I chose music

This is my beginning

This is my introduction

This is my dream

Listen very carefully

This is my demo

Yeah, it's tha arrival of Decihper

Live from this London dungeon (underground)

That′s where I've been puttin' it

Down for my people on the

North side (Get up)

East side (Get up)

West side (Get up)

South side (Get up)

Inside (Yeah)

Outside (Yeah)

Get up, get up, get up, get up

(Underground) Under

That′s what I′m sayin yeah?

And for years

That's how long I waited here

And I′m prepared

Back then people never wanted to hear me though

That's when I had to shoot a ′lil video

Now I'm giving you the album

Here we go!

Ever since I was a ′lil kid about six, seven, eight, nine or ten

I always wanted to be bigga than Big Ben

But dreams can easily come to an end

When your livin' in the big L-o-n-d-o-n

The city dat never sleeps so how do we dream?

'Lil kids forced to think like men and the big smoke just gets you lean

To get a good start in life I took a run up instead of pickin′ a gun up

I picked up a pen, and I shoot for the sky

Run up on the clouds

That′s why I got one up on you clowns

Now I'm becomin′ da talk of da town

Just yesterday I was walkin' around

Tryin′ to figure out how I'm gonna come up on the crowd

Now I′m in the middle when the gathering crowds are sayin'

(Sway) The beginning is still in my memory

(Sway) I was sittin' in my school assembly

(Sway) Never listen to what tha teachers tellin′ me

(Sway) I was thinkin′, "Will I live to seventy?"

(Sway) And if I die will the world remember me?

(Sway) Who's my frends and who′s my enemies?

(Sway) Who will love and who will envy me?

(Sway) Now I'm ready for whatever is meant to be

(Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) I put my blood sweat and tears in this music

(Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) I will not fail

(Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) You′re listening to

(Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) This is my demo

Once upon a time in a place called Harrogate

Lived this average African black kid tryin' to get up in this (industry)

Flat 23, Brook Road, he would practice rapping rapidly

This rap MC had a lot to say with a little time so he rapped quick

Not to say he never had any frends, but he never had many

Never had a penny to access the inside 05-09-82

Flew back to the Motherland where he grew

Flew back to the other land he was to (to)

English boy with African accent 05-09-92

Using the music rooms at his school

Recording rhythms then he rid ′em with riddles

Now he's an African boy with an English accent

Now he's 22

And your listening too

His first official LP debut

And I got the energy (Uh)

I′m not jus′ an NIG (Uh)

I'm still hungry and I′m eag (Uh)

And I'm more ready than I′ve ever been (Uh)

Because I've been pursuing this thing from school

Since commodore

Atari and Amiga

Remember me sir?

I ain′t in it to be number two

Five albums that's what I'm gonna do

Five albums then I′m done

Then I′m through

The enemies all can bite the dust

This is all before the hype, the buzz

This is all before the wife, the lust

The lies the thugs with knives and guns

It's entertainment for you, but it′s life for us

It's time to buzz, my niggas

(Sway) The beginning is still in my memory

(Sway) I was sittin′ in my school assembly

(Sway) Never listen to what da teachers tellin' me

(Sway) I was thinkin′, "Will I live to seventy?"

(Sway) And if I die will the world remember me?

(Sway) Who's my frends and who's my enemies?

(Sway) Who will love and who will envy me?

(Sway) Now I′m ready for whatever is meant to be

(Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) I put my blood sweat and tears in this music

(Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) I will not fail

(Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) You′re listening to

(Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) This is my demo

Our Father, who art in heaven

Hallowed be Thy Name

Thy kingdom come

Thy will be done

On earth as it is in heaven

Give us this day our daily bread

And forgive us our trespasses

As we forgive those

Who trespass against us

And lead us not into temptation

But deliver us from evil

For thine is the kingdom

And the power, and the glory

For ever and ever

Amen

I've got angels on my Nokia

I′m out here, and I got no fear

No foes or no phobias

So all those plottin' with the obeahs

And voodoo deres no hope for yah

Hang yourself I got rope for yah

I said deres no hope for yah

Hang yourself I got rope for yah

′Cause God would never let the devil harm any G's

And when I′m in the dark read Psalms 23

I'm trying to do good on the path for the beasts

A place where the bad boys are the police

Trapped in between the Imam and the priest

And I can't see

If I′m gonna be in the Church with a cross around my neck

Or in a Mosque with a Quran and a palm full of beads

(Sway) The beginning is still in my memory

(Sway) I was sittin′ in my school assembly

(Sway) Never listen to what da teachers tellin' me

(Sway) I was thinkin′, "Will I live to seventy?"

(Sway) And if I die will the world remember me?

(Sway) Who's my frends and who′s my enemies?

(Sway) Who will love and who will envy me?

(Sway) Now I'm ready for whatever is meant to be

(Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) I put my blood sweat and tears in this music

(Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) I will not fail

(Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) You′re listening to

(Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) This is my demo

Charlie boy

Ah, ah who is that?

Oh, it is I your brother Koffi

What are you doing outside in the dark, in the height of the night?

Oh Koffi, I'm planning to travel, I'm planning to go abroad

So you are planing to escape the village, that is a taboo

Nonsense Koffi, you shut up, you idiot

You just forget about taboo, just forget about taboo

You too, what are you doing here anyway?

I was going to do a shit, when I smell your filthy armpits

And I follow the smell all the way to here

Shut up, you bastard

Who is bastard, who are you, anyway where are you going?

I′m going to Buckingham Palace, London to eat champagne with the queen

Charlie you didn′t even have I cedi to embark on such enormous journey

Nonsense Koffi, you forget about cedis, just forget about cedis

How are you going to get there?

Ehen, I'm going to make it myself, jump in the river and swim

And I′m not going to stop untill I see white people

Eh Charlie, you are truly great

Oh Koffi, you too are also great

One day you are going to be the U.N. secretary

Me? Thank you Charlie thank you so much, I you are so grateful

Oh kai, don't you worry, anyway I′m going to go now, bye bye

Bye bye, Charlie bring me fish and chips