Loud in our laughter, silent in our sufferin'
Dave (Rapper) quotes
- Quotes
- 19
- Lyrics
- 16
- Interviews
- 3
Dave's page is anchored by Black (5 of the 16 lyric lines) and by Psychodrama (10 lines credited to the album). Black works as a list: pride, pain, joy, being guilty until proven innocent, working twice as hard. The other lyrics move through family in Drama, mental health in Psycho and youth in Streatham. The interview lines (The FADER in 2017, i-D in 2018) cover vulnerability, telling your mum you are skipping university, and saying as much in a short song as in a long one. No theme dominates: identity, pain, justice, family, craft and wit sit at 2 lines each.
It's workin' twice as hard as the people you know you're better than
One eye on my opps, two eyes on my friends
'Cause at least with my opps, man knows their intentions
The scene turned on me, people tryna ruin me
Where most would see a problem, I'm seein' an opportunity
To drop a freestyle and kill them niggas that were booin' me
You see our gold chains and our flashy cars
I see a lack of self-worth and I see battle scars
He has to be with twenty man when he wears jewellery
And you see it as gangster, I see it as insecurity
“Environment”Verified · Genius
Far from the rest, but I’m far from my best
Life is a lesson, I'm passin' a test
I can't lie
You're a gem and I ain't even talking 'bout the star sign
Black is bein' guilty until proven that you're innocent
Look, black is beautiful, black is excellent
Black is pain, black is joy, black is evident
It's like I'm happy for a second then I'm sad again
And to my fans, the reason I could get to this
You're my drug, the instrumental my therapist
Look, black is beautiful, black is excellent
I know people wearing Rollies doing life in can
Isn't it ironic that they couldn't find the time to plan?
Never had a father and I needed you to be the figure
Growing up as a musician is knowing that what I want to say in eight minutes worth of content can be said as sharply, as deeply, in two minutes and thirty seconds.
This shit's awful, no matter what culture, it ain't normal
Men try and twist it and make it seem like it's your fault
Fuck the road but if anybody's testing me
It's one step away like a 5-a-side penalty
Every Santander Nationwide remembers me
Right pocket full of cards, I'm a referee
Man are dead or in jail, that's useless
Tell a yute, "If you've got a brain, then use it"
When it gets to that time to tell your mum that you’re not going to university, all of a sudden 700,000 YouTube views mean absolutely nothing — that’s not a currency she recognizes.
That’s why the Kanye Wests and the Drakes are just in a different league, because they have the ability to be vulnerable and open.