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Album: Music x Road (2019)
Charted: 13
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Songfacts®:

  • This stark, guitar-led song features brooding rhymes from Headie One in which he contemplates his life both then and now.

    The rapper has been imprisoned three times, including for dealing crack cocaine and heroin. Here, he looks back on his stints in jail.

    Jailhouse, scrambling eggs in a kettle, just wishing I could have it with toast
    I couldn't tell you how weak was a Sunday roast, rice pudding all in that bowl


    He wonders if he's any freer these days living in his violent Tottenham hood where the police are watching every move he makes.

    Too much beef on the streets, we're hitting two blocks and we're shooting up both
    I know feds want me back up in courts, sat in front of the judge just doing up oath
  • The instrumental by PJ Beats and Nastylgia samples Ultra Nate's 1997 dance anthem "Free."

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