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slowthai

Inglorious

Release date: 16th May 2019

From Nothing Great About Britain
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About This Track

Slowthai trades barbs with Skepta over a relentless, ominous beat on 'Inglorious', a track that announces itself through sheer velocity and aggression. The Northampton MC adopts the persona of an unstoppable force, moving from nothing to everything, from exclusion to dominance. Skepta matches him throughout, and the pair push each other into sharper corners; Slowthai holds his own against an artist at the very top of the game, which says everything about his gifts as a rapper. The song sits at the heart of 'Nothing Great About Britain', a debut album that turns inward on the experience of life on council estates, channelling rage at austerity and political neglect into something more personal than polemic. A Dork four-star record, it balances anger with affection, painting the council estate not only as a place of desperation but of community and family pride. 'Inglorious' captures that defiant energy perfectly: Slowthai's refusal to be kept down, his refusal to apologise for where he comes from, his refusal to be anything other than phenomenal.

"Inglorious" is a track by slowthai, from the album Nothing Great About Britain, released 16th May 2019. It's filed under Hip-Hop/Rap. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 3 articles about slowthai.

About the Artist

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Lyrics

Inglorious

[Intro: slowthai]

See, you judge me on my appearance, face value, innit

Don't know about the tax bracket

But I know that I’m teabaggin' your favourite mug, hahaha

They say, "Gang shit"

I ain't about that gang shit

I’m a solo wolf, lone wolf, eating up that gang shit

Gang shit, the death of the gang

Till your dead and buried, seen

[Verse 1: slowthai]

125, doin' up breeze (Doin' up breeze)

Way too, way too, way too, way too

Way too deep (Way too sweet)

Can't lace 95s (95s)

Can't kiss my feet

All they do is chat breeze (Breeze)

Right now I'm breezin' (Breeze)

Trainspottin', I got babies on my ceiling

I’m steady plottin’, now I'm copin’ 'cause I'm eatin' (Belly full)

Remember when they wouldn’t let me in

Now their wage is just a day's per-diem (Per-diem)

Way too, way too, way too, way too, way too sweet

From the fire rose a phoenix, where's the fire weed?

From the ash stems a leaf, that's representing T

And even when I die, I come back twice as legendary

Tears when I sit in the cemetery

Flashbacks, flippin' packs, it was ketamine, huh

Now I'm feeling hoarse

School of life, weren't no course

You're a tourist, only roll with the purist, Ace Ventura

[Chorus: slowthai]

Inglorious bastard (Bastard)

Phenomenal, abdominal (Phenominal)

Put a hole in an obstacle, yeah

Inglorious bastard (Bastard)

Phenomenal, abdominal (Phenominal)

Put a hole in an obstacle, yeah

Inglorious bastard

Phenomenal, abdominal (Abdominal)

Put a hole in an obstacle, yeah

Inglorious bastard (Bastard)

Phenomenal, abdominal (Abdominal)

Put a hole in an obstacle, yeah

[Verse 2: Skepta]

Young boy with a hot head, I was on stage with the mash (Greaze)

Just in case somebody told me to suck my mum in the clash (Stupid)

Way too, way too, way too, way too gassed (Gassed)

Heard man talk about drip, rudeboy, what you know about splash?

What a beautiful murder, with a samurai sword, I slaughter (Shing)

What you mean, "what you mean"?

What you know about holy water?

I stood at the altar, fuck a tab

I do a whole sheet to myself, by myself

Now these big problems just looking much smaller, yeah

And it's just me, my laptop and my bank card (Charge)

I'm directing movies like Gaspar

I drive the wraith like it's Nascar (Eer)

I love the look on their faces

When they look in the whip and it's a black star

That's for all the jokes about the jam jar (Wasteman)

You talk about Sk Level, that's top floor

Will I ever come down? I'm not sure

Look in the bag, I got lots more (Mmm)

She said that I should take my shades off, I was like, "What for?"

Rich boy, got accounts off-shore

Everybody come in and close the door

[Chorus: slowthai]

Inglorious bastard (Bastard)

Phenomenal, abdominal (Phenominal)

Put a hole in an obstacle, yeah

Inglorious bastard (Bastard)

Phenomenal, abdominal (Phenominal)

Put a hole in an obstacle, yeah

Inglorious bastard

Phenomenal, abdominal (Abdominal)

Put a hole in an obstacle, yeah

Inglorious bastard (Bastard)

Phenomenal, abdominal (Abdominal)

Put a hole in an obstacle, yeah

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Track details

From Nothing Great About Britain

2019
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Album
Nothing Great About Britain
Nothing Great About Britain
Slowthai
17th May 2019
Release year
2019
  1. 1Nothing Great About Britain
    3:10
  2. 2Doorman
    3:04
  3. 3Dead Leaves
    2:48
  4. 4Gorgeous
    4:16
  5. 5Crack
    2:17
  6. 6Grow Up (feat. JayKae)
    3:00
  7. 7Inglorious (feat. Skepta)
    3:09
  8. 8Toaster
    3:05
  9. 9Peace Of Mind
    2:28
  10. 10Missing
    2:21
  11. 11Northampton's Child
    3:03
  12. —Grow Up
  13. —Inglorious
  14. 1Drug Dealer
    3:08
  15. 2North Nights
    3:32
  16. 6Northamptons Child

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