Our City - Danny Seth

I grew up in a city

Where they never gave a pity or a fuck

Unless you’re doing grime or UK hip hop

Shit, I guess you’ll never buss

But I was thinking different

Wasn’t off the acid but I always had a vision

How I saw the USA was up for acquisition

So I got a pen and pad and jotted down my proposition, uh

The British Coming

We did it on our own, no help, no nothing

And as far as pulling through for my city

Well, I guess it got me feeling like a plunger

Uh, I wonder if they love me or they hate

Cause of what I’m wearing instead of digesting what I’m saying

The internet, it has a way to make me look good

And my Instagram is looking like a look book

But why the fuck I got more followers on that than on my SoundCloud?

Shit is scary, man, it’s making Suge shook

So I’mma keep my lyrics so clean not even 7 maids will find a speckle of dirt

in between

And have the elders playing this shit to their teens and tell em this what hip

hop needs

Bright lights in my city, I’m dark knight

Off a xanee cause I got long flight

I told my baby girl I gotta save the city

Cause within my city, man, they call me dark knight

I’m the dark knight of my city

Catch me on the block all night

And I ain’t worried bout my sinners

They be riding with me till I die

They see me rollin in the streets

So they know it’s alright

Yeah, I’m the dark knight of my city

Catch me on the block all night, on the block all night

This rapping shit, I do it for my city’s sake

And I should be a stylist how I changed the game

Me and the music, we kinda integrate

I drop a couple bars and rappers then disintegrate

Lyrically, I’m punching in a different weight

And fuck the other-side, I serve em like a dinner plate

Anyway, let me continue what I was chatting bout

I had a dream to make it overseas

I called my brother Jesse, got my clothes

And got my bags and started packing now

He told me it would be alright, I listened

Fast forward a couple months and they still doubting

So many ups and downs I feel like I just climbed a mountain

I find it funny how I had a fanbase in the US

Before my own people finding out about me

I guess it bothered me but I just kept writing

Little do my city know I’m tryna make em shine

For longer than a second like some lightning

It’s freighting, the scene up in my city need a viking

To cross the seas and hold the torch up and till it’s dying, it’s quiet

Uh, yeah I swear it’s fucking quiet

So now I got the labels offering

My heart is saying no, my wallet saying let em in

Then I play my tapes, and they saying «where's the hits?»

And if I hear that one more time I swear to gosh I’m gonna be sick

They tell me justify the music

Tell me what you see

I tell em this what hip hop needs

Bright lights in my city, I’m dark knight

Off a xanee cause I got long flight

I told my baby girl I gotta save the city

Cause within my city, man, they call me dark knight