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Jme

Integrity

Release date: 29th September 2013

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'Integrity' opens with a shh, then Jme pivots from the street economy of his youth to the music game itself. The track is a statement of longevity and principle, built on the claim that he was always serious about the craft, never chasing charts or YouTube metrics, just picking up the mic and spraying bars. He names specifics: school, Windows NT, Fruity Loops 3, a jacket that said Mic Controller on the back. The hook lands on a simple boast, that he still brings the room to its feet, still spits bars nobody knows. The second verse sharpens into something meaner. Jme turns on the opportunists, the ones who ignored him in the lean years and now want to be close. He refuses the idea that he has changed; they have simply arrived late. There is a hardness here, a refusal of false friendship, and an insistence that he was born to do this, that the work is continuous, that the principle matters more than the sale.

"Integrity" is a track by Jme, from the album Integrity>, released 29th September 2013. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Jme

Jme

Lyrics

Integrity

[Verse 1]

Shh!

Before I start top lip slapping

Think me and Skepta were born rapping?

Born in the ends, move food in the ends

And that's the new meaning of spawn trapping

She sells sea shells on the sea shore, no

He sells weed scales and a P4, yeah

He sells details, swiping galore

Deets, AKA credit card fraud

You can't test me in the music game, I've got bare XP

Doing this ting for real, in school

While you was typing up your CV

I was downloading on Windows NT

Bare sample packs for Fruity Loops 3

Ask Mr. Covill about me, I was walking around

With my jacket that said Mic Controller on the back

Best MC in the game, fact

Didn't care about charts or about plaques

Didn't give a shit about YouTube stats

Didn't give a fuck about first week sales

Now you wanna come and chat all this crap?

Fam, all I wanted to do was pick up the mic and spray

And today I still do that, so

[Hook 1]

Chat to me about fucking up shows

Bringing hundreds of supporters to the videos

Spitting brand new bars nobody knows

Still everybody in the room up on their toes

Room smoked out even though I don't smoke

Forget my bars and freestyle, I don't choke

Been doing this for over ten years so

[Verse 2]

Anybody that was there from the start

That only cares now, fuck you rudeboy

Ring my phone, I will duck you rudeboy

Chatting 'bout "ah, I ain't see you for time"

Yeah, I don't wanna buck you rudeboy

You never used to check me back in the day

You didn't used to rate me back in the day

You never used to bred me back in the day

So how the fuck am I the one who's changed?

Piss me off, hard from the start and I ain't gone soft

Your new fans come like tans

They only wanna bred man's skin after man got hot

Grime in my heart just like Logan

More serious than my slogan

Anybody wanna go against me

I will leave you seeking asylum like Snowden

Trust me, even if you don't see me

I'm working so I don't get rusty

'Cause I'm born to do it like C.D

These guys try cuss me and they ain't even sold one CD

The only time they'll succeed is if they bill a zoot and it's seedy

[Hook 2]

'Cause they don't know about fucking up shows

Bringing hundreds of supporters to the videos

Spitting brand new bars nobody knows

Though everybody in the room up on their toes

Room smoked out even though I don't smoke

Forget my bars and freestyle, I don't choke

Been doing this for over ten years so-

[Verse 3]

Anyone of you cocaine snorting label executives

That thinks you can take my integrity for a couple bags

Think twice, make grime and I get paid all nice

In a rave, get a lemonade and ice

I thought by now it was apparent that

These guys cannot develop our talent

I thought by now it was bait that

These guys just try decide man's fate

When I made "Serious" way back in 2006

I can't forget Sam told me it was a hit

I had to have bare meetings with pricks

Labels, A&Rs, radio playlists

Managers looking at me like a dick

They weren't rating me but the guys

They were rating, now ain't shit

But I'm still about, in fact I'm more than about right now

Sold out tour, smashing it out

About twenty features, smashing 'em out

See me in a six cylinder, three litre, two turbo, ragsin it out

So don't tell me that grime shouldn't

Be the music that man's putting out

[Hook 3]

If you don't know about fucking up shows

Bringing hundred's of supporters to the videos

Spitting brand new bars nobody knows

Still everybody in the room up on their toes

Room smoked out even though I don't smoke

Forget my bars and freestyle, I don't choke

Been doing this for over ten years

So shh hut yuh muh, 'llow it!

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Track details

From Integrity>

2013
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Integrity>
Integrity>
Jme
4th May 2015
Release year
2013
  1. —Integrity
  2. —Again
  3. —Game
  4. —The Money
  5. —Break You Down
  6. —Amen
  7. —Same Thing
  8. —No You Ain't
  9. —Man Don't Care
  10. —96 Fuckries
  11. —Don't @ Me
  12. —Taking Over? (It Ain't Working)
  13. —Test Me
  14. —Work
  15. —Pulse 8

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