Devil's Playground

[Intro: Krept]

Yeah

The hood

The ends

The ghetto

Whatever you wanna call it

I call it the devil’s playground

I realise late but better late than never

Yeah

[Verse 1: Krept]

Driving through the hood (Hood), thinking how fucked it is (Yeah)

Like how the fuck can anybody be in love with this (Huh?)

Nobody’s house round here’s got a butler in (Nah)

I see a heroin addict here suffering

Hold on, I used to fuck with him (What else?)

That’s Aaron from school, I grew up with him (What else?)

I used to chill, kickball and get lunch with him (What else)

What a shame now the hoods caught up with him (Stress)

And these hood girls completely insane

They got more cleavage than brains

They think we’re dogs ‘cause we want a one nighter

No, 'cause you're a hoe, and we don’t wanna wife ya' (Nah)

Sitting here thinking how the hood left us

Dead, jail, couple niggas went nuts

Thinking about my life what do I really need?

Turn 'need' around—what I really need is the deen (Real talk)

The gangsters of the Twenty-first century

No remorse screaming Fuck the penitentiary

They’ll run up on you while you're with your ex talking about your pregnancy (What else?)

Then pill your wig for your Ecstasy (Oh)

Now revenge is a must

And your friends get gloves, then ride on ‘em with that .38 snub

We’ll take yours if you take one of us

That’s what they thinking as they drive your mums

Kick off the door than they beat off that gun

So you duck and you run

And all you thinking is they come to my mums; are they dumb?

And the cycle goes on, and the riding don’t stop

And people from both sides getting dropped

If you grew up in a gang, then I know you can relate

I wish someone schooled us earlier, now it’s too late

Before the Gips set saga

Before Kone lost his father

The road 'tings dead, but we learnt this all after

[Refrain: Krept]

There’s way more to life than the hood

I don't care who the baddest, meanest, person is

Can’t take that to your grave with you, homes

We learnt the hard way, but it made us who we are today

And that’s real talk

[Verse 2: Konan]

That’s why I think about it daily

It’s like god took Carl just to save me

From then I knew I’d never be the same, me

Now I see sense, that shit changed me

Yeh, I’ve been through a lot

Surrounded by these fools that would rather see me drop

I was at the bottom with visions of the top

Sitting in jail tryna think out of the box

I remember the times when

Life was just hype and excitement

Yeh, we should’ve been revising

But we was busy running from the sirens

Now all these bright lights got me wanting more

Just came off the phone and me and mum just had the longest talk

But when the sky falls, I know I’ll still be wishing that we had bonded more

Went from tryna wrap food to trying to make rap tunes

Get out of the trap before it traps you

Hoping Karma don’t catch you

'Cause lifes all Twitter 'til

They’re pointing guns at you

Why would you wanna go legit when crime pays

Don’t go Uni; still got high grade

Trying to move forward

Friends are moving sideways

‘Cause they love it when your down here when your u

Feeling like you're stuck

Ain’t got nobody to trust (Noone)

Now you’re moving power when you're with the chick

'Cause those stoosh girls will have you in Little Mix

And all you wanna do is leave the ends

'Cause where was everybody when you need them?

The hoods fucked, yeah, I see it now, I’m just pissed I couldn’t see it then

[Outro Konan]

It’s like, you have to see it, to actually know you don’t wanna be in it

It's like my mum always used to say to me: "If you don't hate, you must feel."

And we done a lot of feeling

A lot feelin'

Kone