Layer Cake

[Intro]
Your born you take sh*t
Get out in the world take more sh*t
Climb a little higher take less sh*t
Till one day you're up in the rarefied atmosphere and you forgot what sh*t even looks like
Welcome to the layer cake son!

[Verse 1: Kano]
Check, check Check Check
I'm two albums deep a thousand shows in
Cause I fight for the right till the towel gets thrown in
We hustle down here, knuckles round here
Never stay pretty when your raised in the city
It's a place full of hatred where they wanna stick me
Cause I'm making my status and they think too quickly
I'm a victim to criticism menace to society
Cause I'm in a position where many do it via me
(huh), but there's always an obstacle just move left but the stress ain'€™t optional
It's all bless but nah you forget you gotta do better you can't do your best
Crucial how you move cause you'll lose your breath in this music follow you to death
Do us part, now you'™re married to the game, with no footsteps to follow.. pave the way
Eh, that's the layer cake, play your position it'™s too f*cked let me explain how the biz is

Too real, you feel that you'™re in control but you ain'™t you're stuck in the layer cake

[Hook]
The Layer Cake
The Layer Cake
The Layer Cake
The Layer Cake (Welcome to the layer cake son..)

[Verse 2: Kano]
They layer cakes like being stuck in the system
Just for existence to be someone coming up as an infant
We seen it in Scarface, the road to the top the f*cking hard way
But you know how the music is, gotta pass a few layers before you get rich
It's a hustle gotta struggle just so you can sh*t gold
And you still owe, that'™s why they get rich and you get broke
But I'm still writing

It's never gonna stop till you f*cking with a cherry on the top
But I'm still trying
The road think I've blown but I ain't nowhere near the icing
Obviously the radio fears my writing
But my ideas are frightening
So I'™m still stuck in the layer cake, taking my chances
They trying to put me in another box.. grime artist
And I'™m trying to see the cream in the middle
Thatâ€'s the money I ain'€™t just speaking in riddles
I ain't trying to be part time, dealing a little
Or trying to see hard times stealing at lidls
But things just ain't what they seem, I'm on the grind like banner said
From pirates to mainstream, and still not that ahead
Cause I'm in the industry man, in England
Where I'll never sell more than an indie band
You don't even wanna know the ins and outs
But let me tell you how it goes down

[Hook]

[Verse 3: Kano]
Layers and Layers of bullsh*t, the games f*cked up
But you gotta play it you can't pause it
And you can't forfeit as a up and coming emcee
Trying to bust but your pockets empty
I work hard, never a night off
Watch fabulous life of and see all things that I want
But I don't think UK's ready
My tunes on heavy rotation cause it's got mike on
Ever since so solid dropped, 21 seconds, the charts ain't really had anyone reppin'
So can you get to the top of the top
Pow
11 still no top of the pops, how
Said I'll probably get nominated
No disrespect to Lemar but I think I should have gone to take it
But f*ck this, f*ck the Brits, get p*ssed take the p*ss out of this Paris Hilton b*tch
Cause I don't belong here
I've come a long way it's been a long year
And I'm so near but yet so far
Climbing the ladder till to the rarefied atmosphere...
Welcome to the layer cake.. (it'€™s the layer cake) son
(ooh yeah, it's the layer cake)
(ooh yeah, it's the layer cake..)