"Jail Thug Mansions" lyrics
(feat. Anthony Russell)
[Mazza_l20:]
I'm institutionalised I can't cope
Started rapping in a cell and gave the lifers all hope
Suicide not an option I've seen people hit the rope
And all they left was a note a little letter what he wrote
They found his body on soash bro this shits been emosh
Let the lifers out of jail I think that we should all vote
Because them IPP tariffs are a joke
Me mates mum and dad died lad he lost both
They didn't let him go funeral I swear it's a joke
When he told me nearly cried I got a lump in my throat
I gave him a hug and some polly he can smoke
Fuck jail I'm just tryna spread the message like a pope
I got nicked because they know I keep it on me like a coat
Fuck a skeng with a scope coz I do it from close
Have you ever been broke and then went and sold soap
I'm superstitious have you ever seen a ghost?
I can talk about the mazzas coz I really done the most
Queens road kings I need a castle and a moat
But this the jail thugs mansions I'm just waiting on some post
[Anthony Russell:]
There's a place that we can be free
To the way inside the city
No need to run brother it's cool
Not restricted by system rules
They give us stress from the world outside
We can just chill then we'll be so high
Nothing but peace and love
Street passion ever brother needs a thugs mansion
[Mazza_l20:]
Dear mum don't cry, I'm locked up but I'm good
Tell the boys that I'm in prison and they ain't got love
I'm sick of booking visits just to give you a hug
10 years in a cell they said it isn't enough
But I've been sitting in my jail cell just visioning stuff
I had a dream the other day that we was living it up
I woke up pissed off coz I'm still in the cuffs
I'm still it in stuck and still they ain't giving a fuck
Instead of a gun they should've give us a book
Because knowledge is power they want prisoners stuck
They pray that we fail but they're wishing us luck
I learnt patience in jail next door to a crook
I learnt how to shoot before I learnt how to cook
I learnt that you've got to stay positive when life gets tough
I've got scars on my wrists from when they put me in cuffs
Because they put them so tight that my wrist got cut
I seen the country through the window on a sweatbox bus
They got me feeling like a lifer how my life got took
They had me sharpening shanks coz I could never be shook
But this the jail thug mansions got my boy on the hook
[Anthony Russell:]
There's a place that we can be free
To the way inside the city
No need to run brother it's cool
Not restricted by system rules
They give us stress from the world outside
We can just chill then we'll be so high
Nothing but peace and love
Street passion ever brother needs a thugs mansion
[Mazza_l20:]
They always said if you go jail you'll find out who's your mate
I told my boy to grab a fork he can eat off my plate
We need to stick together coz there's too much hate
I told my bro there's more to life than a city estate
Because it cost me 10 years from a shitty mistake
It's like the systems built to see prisoners break
My brothers been through a lot they need to give us a break
I'm on the 4s looking out to the views like Drake
And birthdays were the worst days
I'm just looking out my window watching aeroplanes
Remember chilling in the flat smoking weed on the stairway
Now I'm in a place where they call me by my surname
I've got a prison number after my first name
But I can't be defined by this
Because my mother always said there'll be times like this
And just to pass time I write rhymes like this
Just reminiscing on the times I've missed
Pissed off I lost time that I can't get back
How do you plan for the future when you live in the past
We die young so I'd rather get nicked with a strap
But that's some bad advice sorry don't listen to that
I've gone mad for all them years I've had to sit in the pad
They took everything I loved without giving it back
But it's the jail thug mansions so free all the lads
[Anthony Russell:]
There's a place that we can be free
To the way inside the city
No need to run brother it's cool
Not restricted by system rules
They give us stress from the world outside
We can just chill then we'll be so high
Nothing but peace and love
Street passion ever brother needs a thugs mansion
I'm institutionalised I can't cope
Started rapping in a cell and gave the lifers all hope
Suicide not an option I've seen people hit the rope
And all they left was a note a little letter what he wrote
They found his body on soash bro this shits been emosh
Let the lifers out of jail I think that we should all vote
Because them IPP tariffs are a joke
Me mates mum and dad died lad he lost both
They didn't let him go funeral I swear it's a joke
When he told me nearly cried I got a lump in my throat
I gave him a hug and some polly he can smoke
Fuck jail I'm just tryna spread the message like a pope
I got nicked because they know I keep it on me like a coat
Fuck a skeng with a scope coz I do it from close
Have you ever been broke and then went and sold soap
I'm superstitious have you ever seen a ghost?
I can talk about the mazzas coz I really done the most
Queens road kings I need a castle and a moat
But this the jail thugs mansions I'm just waiting on some post
[Anthony Russell:]
There's a place that we can be free
To the way inside the city
No need to run brother it's cool
Not restricted by system rules
They give us stress from the world outside
We can just chill then we'll be so high
Nothing but peace and love
Street passion ever brother needs a thugs mansion
[Mazza_l20:]
Dear mum don't cry, I'm locked up but I'm good
Tell the boys that I'm in prison and they ain't got love
I'm sick of booking visits just to give you a hug
10 years in a cell they said it isn't enough
But I've been sitting in my jail cell just visioning stuff
I had a dream the other day that we was living it up
I woke up pissed off coz I'm still in the cuffs
I'm still it in stuck and still they ain't giving a fuck
Instead of a gun they should've give us a book
Because knowledge is power they want prisoners stuck
They pray that we fail but they're wishing us luck
I learnt patience in jail next door to a crook
I learnt how to shoot before I learnt how to cook
I learnt that you've got to stay positive when life gets tough
I've got scars on my wrists from when they put me in cuffs
Because they put them so tight that my wrist got cut
I seen the country through the window on a sweatbox bus
They got me feeling like a lifer how my life got took
They had me sharpening shanks coz I could never be shook
But this the jail thug mansions got my boy on the hook
[Anthony Russell:]
There's a place that we can be free
To the way inside the city
No need to run brother it's cool
Not restricted by system rules
They give us stress from the world outside
We can just chill then we'll be so high
Nothing but peace and love
Street passion ever brother needs a thugs mansion
[Mazza_l20:]
They always said if you go jail you'll find out who's your mate
I told my boy to grab a fork he can eat off my plate
We need to stick together coz there's too much hate
I told my bro there's more to life than a city estate
Because it cost me 10 years from a shitty mistake
It's like the systems built to see prisoners break
My brothers been through a lot they need to give us a break
I'm on the 4s looking out to the views like Drake
And birthdays were the worst days
I'm just looking out my window watching aeroplanes
Remember chilling in the flat smoking weed on the stairway
Now I'm in a place where they call me by my surname
I've got a prison number after my first name
But I can't be defined by this
Because my mother always said there'll be times like this
And just to pass time I write rhymes like this
Just reminiscing on the times I've missed
Pissed off I lost time that I can't get back
How do you plan for the future when you live in the past
We die young so I'd rather get nicked with a strap
But that's some bad advice sorry don't listen to that
I've gone mad for all them years I've had to sit in the pad
They took everything I loved without giving it back
But it's the jail thug mansions so free all the lads
[Anthony Russell:]
There's a place that we can be free
To the way inside the city
No need to run brother it's cool
Not restricted by system rules
They give us stress from the world outside
We can just chill then we'll be so high
Nothing but peace and love
Street passion ever brother needs a thugs mansion
