Tonart: G minor
Verse 1
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My time in the UK is kind of mad
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because, alright,
I'll start from the start
The first
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Time I went I was like 7 but then I went for a wedding,
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my aunt's wedding but like I
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Remember like having grown up in
Sierra
Leone having multiple siblings in the
UK
Like growing up I had like this
picture in my head of what the
UK was like and
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What was mad is being in
Leone up till then like 7, in
Sierra
Leone the
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Coolest thing was to go to the beach so in
my head like when they talk about the
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UK, all I thought was it's all sandy like,
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it's like sand everywhere, blue sky you know and water
Here and there. I remember when they talk about the underground,
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auntie and I used to talk
About underground all the time. I'm like oh it must
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be like a tractor on the sand and it digs
Under the ground
So obviously I got the shock of my life when
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I went when I was seven. I was like
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Oh it's just normal like wet grey block brick houses
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you know cold as hell all right the first
Intimidating thing was the plane i was like what that shit
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looks like a building but anyway yeah
So when i was nine that was the second time i went
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and we actually stayed and i started
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They had these passenger boats,
it was called the
Elder
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Dempster line, and the boat we went
On was called the
Enviore
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Desmond and used to go to the prowl of
the boat, that's the prowl that makes the talk
And look down, that's the scariest thing in the world,
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because you see it kind of goes
Down underneath, and you just see the water passing,
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and you just have this compulsion
Want to dive in, it's really weird
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Mum did, fairly actively actually, offer
us opportunities to go to
Nigeria and did say
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Like around, especially I remember around 2009 time I stopped,
senior school co- ops
Nigeria a few times after my dad divorced
and was like, yeah you
Can come to
Nigeria
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And we were just like, no thanks
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And we just didn't really see it as an option that we were excited about,
you know, at that
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Time
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Maybe with her dominance in
London, know
South
London
Catford, you know
Caribbean
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Culture is probably more popping at that time,
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less of a cultural confidence in being
African
And stuff
Like from the beginning,
I would always just say I was
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Sardinian, but it's something that
I actually picked up from my dad because
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when we used to be on holiday in
Europe or wherever
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Whenever someone would say where are you from to him,
he would never say the
UK, and he
Was born in the
UK and has a
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British passport and went to school in the
UK, but he would
Never say that, he'd be like
West
Africa is
Sierra
Leone
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And for me, being somebody
that's obviously from
Africa
Originally parents from
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Africa, born and living in
London
That generation gap between
me and my parents
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Makes my re lationship to
Africa very difficult, I found
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I never really was able to talk to
my parents about that
I never really understood
their story
Obviously, my parents moved from
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Sierra
Leone during the war and stuff
So there's a lot to it that I don't know
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And I wanted to connect
So, a couple of years ago, my auntie
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Howard passed away
My mum's sister
And during that time,
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my mum was going through a lot of stuff
So me and her got a lot closer
Every time she would come into
the room and just hear her cry
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I'd just go into comfort mode
And through that, we started
talking
She started to open up about
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her story a bit more
And it just
What I remember seeing her have in that
conversation
Was just being emotional
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Yeah, I was inspired
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I was inspired by her story and I just thought to myself that all the time people,
especially young kids growing up in
London, who have
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African parents, you grow up hating your parents because you think they're strict on you, they think there's hate,
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that they're not in touch with your culture because you grew up in a world where they're from
Africa
So, for me, I wanted to make sure that people
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understood how important their parents were
Because my parents moved from
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Africa at absolute treacherous times,
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Just to give me the better opportunity
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I think if that generational conversation
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was had between parents of
African descent
And children who have been born in
Africa, people would be much more
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able to reconnect with
Africa
You know what saying?
Obviously there's the
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Western representation of
Africa which has its issues
And it me away from
Africa
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As op posed to looking back to
Africa and seeing it as beautiful
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I mean, this place, everybody likes
Spots
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You know what I'm saying?
We all love
Spots, you know?
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And I think that's what brings us together
I think it was nice
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I don't know, it makes me feel like,
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it's a bit like when a kid in school kind of like
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Does this thing like, you know,
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they do like that extra effort to kind of like, you know
Be part of something. I don't know, I just, I feel,
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I feel quite, kind of, I don't know
They like accepted me in a weird way,
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like I wasn't half way yet, like
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How's it going?
Fine
Yo man, what's up?
What's
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Come
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Come on
Jimmy!
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Where do you live?
Where do you live?
Main
Street
Main
Street what?
I don't know
Main
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Street?
Which girl's house?
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Which girl's house?
Are you
Sierra
Leonean?
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Yeah, my baba in the salon
My mama in
Como
England
In the hopper
In the hopper?
Yeah
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You know the man that they call
Sim
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Tussim
Tussim?
Tussim!
You know
Tussim?
You know
Tussim?
Yeah
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