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Kano

Paper

Release date: 29th September 2008

From 140 Grime Street
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About This Track

"Paper" is a track by Kano, from the album 140 Grime Street, released 29th September 2008. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Kano

Kano

Lyrics

Paper

[Chorus]

I'm gonna get that paper

I'm gonna get that paper

Major, fuck never, cause now's better than later

I'm gonna get that paper

I'm gonna get that paper

Major, fuck never, cause now's better than later

I'm gonna get that paper

I'm gonna get that paper

Major, fuck never, cause now's better than later

I'm gonna get that paper

I'm gonna get that paper

Major, fuck never, cause now's better than later

I'm gonna get that paper

I'm gonna get that paper

Major, fuck never, cause now's better than later

I'm gonna get that paper

I'm gonna get that paper

Major, fuck never, cause now's better than later

[Verse 1]

Look, I'm back I bun down the city

Bad boy and I don't run round with Diddy

Hardcore I don't dumb down for any

If they ain't ready, tell 'em buy Jamie T, cause I'm heavy

Bassline messy and yeah I go Glastonbury and wear wellies

Cause I'm a known rapper, was no Fonejacker but I got the 'LCD' and it's HD ready

Look, I'm sick of the comparisons already

I listen when I square like Madison

Rent mansions don't stay in the Radisson

Any other rapper I'm bigger or badder than

See I'm in a different league, I'm a different breed

You're Championship, I'm Champions League

Back in the day I was in that champion team

Name on the back 'brap brap' like I was on stage

In a rap bout 20-man deep, next that's Wembley, 20 pound seats cause

I'm one of the best MCs to spit it

UK or US fuck the critics

You spray and you dress with no fittin'

Look, I'm the hardest regardless

See I'm on the road so they rolled out the red carpet

So cool in my Tom Ford glasses

Limelight so I shine like varnish

It's my time, I'm now you're past it

You're an MC, I'm an artist

And I'm still old school like a parting

I'm still half in, the industry half in the streets

And the mixtape market, so I'm still hungry like I'm fasting

Tahahaha, to the bank I'm laughing

[Chorus]

I'm gonna get that paper

I'm gonna get that paper

Major, fuck never, cause now's better than later

I'm gonna get that paper

I'm gonna get that paper

Major, fuck never, cause now's better than later

I'm gonna get that paper

I'm gonna get that paper

Major, fuck never, cause now's better than later

I'm gonna get that paper

I'm gonna get that paper

Major, fuck never, cause now's better than later

[Verse 2]

Look, I'm back I bun down the ends

I come for pounds, you come out for pence

I own the flow and no doughs left

Landlord, I might come down for rent

I come to my senses early on

Now Mammy's got that Hermes on, with her Vuitton

Louis, case, mortgage paid

This place I represent, these people I'm there for them

These verses I recommend, you rewind and hear again

You won't witness this again

The MC spit so quick with such sense

Such soul and success, Home Sweet Home, classic

Fucking Illmatic, addict, Kane's still at it

Don't make me prove this again

That I'm the shit I'm the best, with all due respect

But no disrespect, when you go right I go left

I'm different, if you ask me

I'm the people's champ like Ali

[Hook]

I'm gonna get that paper

I'm gonna get that paper

Major, fuck never, cause now's better than later

I'm gonna get that paper

I'm gonna get that paper

Major, fuck never, cause now's better than later

I'm gonna get that paper

I'm gonna get that paper

Major, fuck never, cause now's better than later

I'm gonna get that paper

I'm gonna get that paper

Major, fuck never, cause now's better than later

[Verse 3]

Look, I'm better I'm greater

Hot now, veteran later

That's why your gettin them peanuts

And I'll be gettin that paper

I'm dark, I'm Vader, no stranger, I know what grime is

I'm Legend like Will Smith where I live

Cristian D's over the eyelids

The shit we need to look the fliest

Diamond rings and no TV licence

Magnum Dom P n BT's cut off

Stereotype, fuck that I'm a one off

It's just one of the things I do

Custom tracksuits and bling my shoes

Cause I don't wanna live average, do you?

I wanna hear everybody sing my tune like

I'm gonna get that paper

[Hook]

I'm gonna get that paper

I'm gonna get that paper

Major, fuck never, cause now's better than later

I'm gonna get that paper

I'm gonna get that paper

Major, fuck never, cause now's better than later

I'm gonna get that paper

I'm gonna get that paper

Major, fuck never, cause now's better than later

I'm gonna get that paper

I'm gonna get that paper

Major, fuck never, cause now's better than later

[Bridge]

Look, I make money, I make money money

I don't, take money, I make money money

I don't, make music just to make money money

I make, big money, to give money money

[Outro]

Hey I, I don't watch yours, so don't watch mine

Cause every day I'm hustlin I stay on my grind

Hey I, I don't watch yours, so don't watch mine

Cause every day I'm hustlin I stay on my grind

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Track details

From 140 Grime Street

2008
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Album
140 Grime Street
140 Grime Street
Kano
Release year
2008
  1. —140 Grime St
  2. —Don't Come Around Here
  3. —Hustler
  4. —Hunting We Will Go
  5. —I Stand By It
  6. —Missing Me
  7. —Paper
  8. —Soldier
  9. —These MC's
  10. —Off Licence
  11. —We Gangsta
  12. —Anywhere We Go
  13. —Seems Like Things Have Changed
  14. —Too Advanced
  15. —Aim For The Sky

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