Dizzee Rascal - Stop Dat
This is grime's would-be posterboy (these days Raskit avoids the term 'grime' in interviews); the album is still considered the best example of the genre. Alot of these lyrics are rave bars he'd been using on pirate radio for years, which you'll be able to hear on this magnificent new website which collects together classic sets from the 'golden era' of grime ('03-05ish):
grimetapes.com
Why the golden era? At the time the scene was based around raves (a scene long since killed dead by the London Met) and pirate radio (now it's cheaply-produced mixtapes that are instantly bootlegged online, and zero promotion). It was still early years so the 'grimey' 2-step production style was still the standard i.e. the beats were miles better.
Some of them are tape quality for grimeheads only, but if you use the Zshare link you'll be able to hear them before you d/l. I particularly recommend any of the N.A.S.T.Y sets, they were probably the apex.
**LYRICS**
Stop dat
Start dat
Get dat, wah
Been der done dat had dat, wah
He's got a Nokia, take dat, wah
Rude mouth, loud mouth watch dat, wah
Pretty girl, buff girl
Doggy, dat, wah
Dizzee Rascal's on da format, wah
Bad manners get a backslap, wah
I call da shots like top cat, wah
Track and stack whores done dat, wah
Come on rude boy come prove dat, wah
Boy in da corner, I'm dat, wah
Loose school lyrical Bow-cat, wah
Best friend, sole mate, wats dat, wah
Girlfriend, wifey done dat! , wah
You can't know me, know dat! wah
Dedication to show dat! wah
Chuckin' MC's like stones
Bad boy forever like Sean Puffy Combs
Inside, outside runnin all zones
Set trend, get girls like Tom Jones
Brake bones, brake your house, wifey's home,
yes wifey don't leave me alone
Dat boy's arrogant send for da chrome
Come bare-foot like Fred Flinstone
You got a big gun?
Come bring it out
Butterfly-knife come along fling it out
we could jus do it old school Swing it out
I suggest you best start winging out
Who's dat? Wat's dat boy in my eye?
Yea man, quick man, start spreadin out!
Kidnapped, takin rascal's hideout
Cold sweat, tie you up, get burnt out!
Boys, girls start movin'
Come on, Girls, boys start movin'
Alright don't stop, don't stop, till it's hurtin'
Come on don't stop, don't stop, till your bleedin'
Alright boys, girls start your ting'
Come on, Girls, boys start your ting'
Alright don't stop, don't stop, till it's hurtin'
Come on don't stop, don't stop, till your bleedin'
Alright boys, girls start movin'
Come on, Girls, boys start movin'
Alright don't stop, don't stop, till it's hurtin'
Come on don't stop, don't stop, till your bleedin'
Alright boys, girls start your ting'
Come on, Girls, boys start your ting'
Alright don't stop, don't stop, till it's hurtin'
Come on don't stop, don't stop, till your bleedin'
Alright!
Got a screw face all night all day
Screw face kids brothers aren't paid
Screw face means kid why you waste away
Screw face means get out my way
Screw face means you don't know me,
what you lookin at what's your beef?!?
Screw face means I'm not havin it
Screw face means I'm not a chief
Screw face means I'm not happy right now
Dat's why no smile was used
Screw face means I'm not pleased
Screw face means I'm not amused
Screw face means I jus wanna walk not talk
Screw face means I jus wanna leave
When I activate my screw face, gimme space
Screw face means let me breathe!
I got sick flows
Make an MC have to walk on his tip-toes
Life aint always nice
That's how **** goes
You know we're goin on black
Cause we're black crows
And I cant be seen wit these sick hoes
We're bustin us mic till your chick goes
You are not, not gonna be
Till we kick toes
Your girl's the same as all
Bimbo's, freak's and nimpho's
I got an idea, make dough on the spot
I mean right here
Lock your girls up in for da whole year
You can bring drama cause I don't know fear
I'm violent, feels so clear
Move to the mic Mc's are like oh dear
Some try catchin me but they're not nere
Not ever, not now, or not here way too hot here
Look, yo girls, ladies
do da butterfly, shake your battie low,
shake your battie high
don't ask me who, where, when or why
Wanna see a battie raise high to da sky
girls, ladies, do da butterfly
shake your battie low,
shake your battie high
don't ask me who, where, when or why
Wanna see a battie raise high to da sky