Inner London

[Chorus: Shakka]

I was born '89, Shola Ama made me

Head low so the boydem could never see me

Old bros leave town so they never see me

Now my neighbourhood don't recognise me

Inna, inna, inna, inna London, inna London

Inna, inna, inna London

Inna, inna, inna London, inna London

Inna, inna, inna Lond, inna, inna, inna

[Verse 1: Shakka]

The spot on Portabello made the sickest Chinese

Now the one that's taken over makes the shittest Chinese

The new neighbours never figured this loud music pays me

Now there's banging on my door and it goes-

I don't recognise my neighbours

I'm sure they don't know me either

They hardly ever say hi-i-i-i

And now the rent is getting hi-i-i-i

But I was born, raised and grown here, yeah, yeah

Like Carnival, I'm going nowhere, yeah, yeah

[Chorus: Shakka]

I was born '89, Shola Ama made me

Head low so the boydem could never see me

Old bros leave town so they never see me

Now my neighbourhood don't recognise me

Inna, inna, inna, inna London, inna London

Inna, inna, inna London

Inna, inna, inna London, inna London

Inna, inna, inna Lond, inna, inna, inna

[Verse 2: Shakka]

They would lock off grime raves claiming they incite beef

Now it's all over the place and we're like-

I don't know who stole my lighter

Can't rave without my lighter

It makes a London boy so hi-i-i-igh

We rave in different shapes and si-i-i-ize

You naughty gyal when you're well prepared, yeah, yeah

Like are you really, really from the e-e-ends?

[Chorus: Shakka]

I was born '89, Shola Ama made me

Head low so the boydem could never see me

Old bros leave town so they never see me

Now my neighbourhood don't recognise me

Inna, inna, inna, inna London, inna London

Inna, inna, inna London

Inna, inna, inna London, inna London

Inna, inna, inna Lond, inna, inna, inna

[Verse 3: Giggs]

Man was born up in Peckham on the gully Gloucester

Went to school with Spencer, Mordecai and Foster

Beenie Man, Bounty Killer, Biggie Smalls and Busta

Every day in the jungle with the knuckle duster

Man had crack inside the basement

Man got slapped outside that pavement

R&B outside the station (remember that spot)

Now my block's all got replacements

Trendy spots in the jungle, that's their banging venture

When they should build a youth club or a damn adventure

They don't give a fuck 'bout mandem

If they could, they'd fucking ban them

[Chorus: Shakka]

I was born '89, Shola Ama made me

Head low so the boydem could never see me

Old bros leave town so they never see me

Now my neighbourhood don't recognise me

Inna, inna, inna, inna London, inna London

Inna, inna, inna London

Inna, inna, inna London, inna London

Inna, inna, inna Lond, inna, inna, inna