This Is What I Mean

[Intro]

Oh

Oh-oh, why?

[Verse 1: Stormzy]

(Oh)

It's a bigger operation (Oh, oh)

What's with all the speculation? (Oh, oh)

Had to close the store for renovations (Oh, oh)

My cuzzy said "Stormz', man, they're runnin' out of patience, you know" (Oh, oh)

Time to make a statement (Oh, oh)

Time to free my mind of limitations (Oh, oh)

Finesse the majors, that's my form of reparations (Oh, oh)

They said, "You can't slide, you're a treasure to the nation" (Oh, oh)

But what they gonna do, what they gonna say? (Oh, oh)

Stormz' got that sauce, this that bolognese (Oh, oh)

Talkin' 'bout the bread, like it correlates (Oh, oh)

I see you lookin' bothered with your bothered face (Oh, oh)

Even though we're comin' from a common place (Oh, oh)

All I see is stars, like we in a Wraith (Oh, oh)

So give him room to grow and just give him space (Oh, oh)

And he could be a young, black Jimmy Napes

[Interlude: Stormzy]

Oh, this is clean, this is clean

This is what I mean

I said, this is what I mean, yo

[Verse 2: Stormzy]

All my niggas got it, we unanimous

Cut from different cloth and different calibers

My skeleton is matchin' with my managers'

She love me, 'cause I'm handsome and I'm talented (Boy, boy)

Hangin' off the banisters

Tell me, who's gon' pay for all the damages?

Ah, I'm just reckless, like the mandem is

Talkin' recky, we gon' ask you where your manners is

I said it from a kid, you should've listened

I manifest the shit and then it happened

Said that I'ma do it, then it happens

(P2J up on the rhythm and it's slappin')

I shout my brother Giggs, that's more than rappin'

Shout my sister Mel, we doin' fashion (Sheesh)

Ah, all this work that I've been mashin'

Put your boy in the position where I profit off my passion, alright

They don't know about the times I've bled

Give a fuck 'bout what the timeline said, I do your day streams

In a second, yeah, I shine like Ed

I thank God for the life I've led, then get the Wraith clean

I heard them say that grime ain't dead

I'm Harry Styles, the way I fine-line tread, you're goin' mainstream

Mind your business, 'fore you mind my bread

If ten milli' weren't enough, I make a lifetime pledge, alright (Boy)

[Chorus]

This is what I mean

This is what I mean

This is what I mean

This is what I mean

[Verse 3: Stormzy & Ms Banks]

Uh, I can't address your niggas on the 'net, they disrespect

They don't wanna give me my respect, it's disrespect

A nigga doin' numbers, what the fuck did you expect?

They charge a nigga fifty every time I miss the jet, ah

I guess I overslept

If she hold me down, then I might buy her a Patek

The mandem hold me back, because they know just how I get

Please don't hold my money, man, just wire me my check

[Bridge: Amaarae & Stormzy]

I make a pay from your mother, 'cause it's lots on the beach

White bitches rollin' in the deep

Nosedivin' off a yacht, into the sea

Blah, still I keep the blicky on me

Bitch, I'm off that thing already

Uh, uh, you know I'm with a ting already

She buy the whole house (Yeah, go), fuck a centerpiece

But she might like that chopper sing already, hmm

Bitch, I'm off that thing already

Uh, uh, you know I'm with a ting already

They don't wanna give me my respect, it's disrespect

Y'all gon' have to pay your respects, it's off the check (Um, alright)

[Verse 4: Stormzy]

I don't do things the rapper way

All that cappin' on the net, I'll make the mandem blow a cap away

So we just let them niggas out the way

I think I'm Kanye mixed with Donny Hathaway (Hathaway)

I heard Sunday's the new Saturday (Sat-sat-urday)

We praisin' God, I watch my enemies evaporate

Hallelujah, to be honest, I could plan and do you

But I gotta rise above it, word to Dan Kaluuya

No chance, buffalo stance on my Neneh Cherry

They wanna see the Michael that they see on telly

You man just remind me of my girl, why you never ready?

I'm the G.O.A.T., but that ain't nothin' I ain't said already

Oh, please, all my enemies are dead and buried

I need that Häagen-Dazs, I need that Ben & Jerry's

If we do it, then we do it large, I'm on my Kevin Perry

This ain't the same man who said his head was heavy

[Chorus: Black Sherif]

(This is what I mean)

Cos you see say, if dey no one listen to you, breddas smoke dem paigons, they don't deserve you

(This is what I mean)

Can't keep you name out their mouth, they say you do this and that, we are tired already

(This is what I mean)

Talk is cheap, I don't do bare talking, diss jiggas are quiet, bredda dey no for tell you

(This is what I mean)

Cos you see say, if dey no one listen to you, breddas smoke dem paigons, they don't deserve you

(This is what I mean)

This is what I mean, this is what I mean, this is what I mean, o

(This is what I mean)

Oh, I mean, o, it's what I mean, o, that's what I mean, o

(This is what I mean)

This is what I mean, this is what I mean, this is what I mean, o

(This is what I mean)

This is what I mean, o, is what I mean, o