"21 Years" lyrics

Skepta & Fred again.. Lyrics

"21 Years"

I've stuck it out and now I can say that I've seen both sides (Feet, them Reeboks)
And I remember how I felt
I remember how I felt
I remember exactly how I felt (Feet, them Reeboks)

Twenty-one years with the same old bars
Still get reloads so I keep repeatin' 'em
Twenty-one years with the same faces around me
I know you're bored of seein' 'em
Twenty-one snakes in the grass just waitin', hatin'
You need twenty-one phones for the game I'm playin' (Feet, them Reeboks)
Twenty-one years with the same old bars
Still get reloads so I keep repeatin' 'em
Twenty-one years with the same faces around me
I know you're bored of seein' 'em
Twenty-one snakes in the grass just waitin', hatin'
You need twenty-one phones for the game I'm playin'

I'm in my room up late, I'm pacin', overthinkin'
I don't wanna lie in the bed
Spent all this money on a hotel suite, but I spent the night in my head
Feel like I wanna switch off my phone for a week
'Cause I can't get a break from the beef
Textin' me paragraphs, I'm on a beach
Ludicrous shit, disturbin' the peace
I'm wonderin' why I know I shouldn't text them back, but I keep respondin'
Why do I keep trauma-bondin'? Why did they lie?
Why they keep abscondin'?
You know the type, they never wanna sleep
Eat, rave, rinse and repeat
In a new gang every other week
Switchin' sides like half-time, it's peak

(Feet, them Reeboks)
Twenty-one years with the same old bars
Still get reloads so I keep repeatin' 'em
Twenty-one years with the same faces around me
I know you're bored of seein' 'em
Twenty-one snakes in the grass just waitin', hatin'
You need twenty-one phones for the game I'm playin'

As soon as I hit that stage, three reloads in sixty seconds
And I'm gone like Nicolas Cage
Never had squares, I was cuttin' other shapes
Taught them how to finesse on a minimum wage
Twenty-eight grams in an ounce
419, I done froze your accounts
Agh, yo, yo, yo
It's the same old story, over and over again
I said I wouldn't link that girl no more
Look, now, she comin' over again
When I was high, said I wanna quit smokin'
I changed my mind, now I'm sober again
Went from the school, run straight to the studio
I spit a war lyric and it's over for them
You said I can't multitask, I'm an enigma
And I'm only puttin' the loudest in the Rizla
Try walk a mile in my shoes, you get a blister
Left the house and I came back richer
Walk in the door, tryna find where the kids are
Plug gave me the heads up, said he got a new pack
And I told him, "Send me a picture"
You know me, I ain't tryna pay full price
I'm tryna get a deal like I'm shoppin' in Bicester

Ever since way back, way back, way back, way back then, get that again
Told 'em it's, told 'em it's payback, way back, see me in the Maybach, ay, that's them
Suck whose mum? Now, why would you say that? Can't get your chain back, skate my friend
London boy but I don't discriminate, take that dollar and I take that yen
Ever since way back, way back, way back, way back then, get that again
Told 'em it's, told 'em it's payback, way back, see me in the Maybach, ay, that's them
Suck whose mum? Now, why would you say that? Can't get your chain back, skate my friend
London boy but I don't discriminate, take that dollar and I take that yen

You won't see me outside unless it's a special occasion
Kids for the evenin', I'm outside tryna motivate the mandem and hold a reasonin'

Twenty-one years with the same old bars
Still get reloads so I keep repeatin' 'em
Twenty-one years with the same faces around me
I know you're bored of seein' 'em
Twenty-one snakes in the grass just waitin', hatin'
You need twenty-one phones for the game I'm playin'

Feet, them Reeboks, feet, them Reeboks
Feet, them Reeboks (Feet, them Reeboks, feet, them Reeboks)
Shawty did freelance (Feet, them Reeboks, ever since)
Shawty did freelance (Feet, them Reeboks)
Feet, them— (Ever since)
Shawty did freelance (I need that)
Reeboks, shawty did— Reeboks, shawty did— Reeboks
Shawty did freelance (I need that, Reeboks)
Shawty did freelance (I need that, Reeboks)
Shawty did freelance (I need that, Reeboks)
Shawty did freelance (I need that, Reeboks)
(I need that, I need that—)
Lil' white bitch on Depop (I need that, I need that—)
Left bitch alone with my— (I need that, I need that—)
Reeboks (I need that, I need that—)


Writer(s): Joseph Adenuga, Salvador Navarrete, Mayah Alkhateri, Frederick John Philip Gibson
EP: "Skepta .. Fred" (2025)
Skepta & Fred again.. - Skepta .. Fred EP cover
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