Jelani Blackman
Fire in the Booth, Pt. 1
Charlie
I’m leaving brothers in my rear view
In fact, they can’t even see the vehicle
Nah, don’t let nobody near you
If you can see that they like it when you’re fearful
Mad times, I just see bare vampires
Damn liars, the whole city’s on white like Persil
It could never be off like Virgil
But my teams got my back like Van Dijk
If you fuck with my guys that’s personal
I see bare man throwing up gang signs
But they’re fucking scared of their own circle
Tryna grow roots but the ground ain’t fertile
Flow infernal, raise hell when I spell out truth
Feel it in your internal
If you know a person, you know them external
Might end up lost if your not careful

Call me Prince and her tongue ring purple
Rain on me, heat it up like thermal
Steaming, I don’t fuck with the dreaming
Cynical like uh, why you so hurtful?
Cos it’s 5am, feeling like a scarecrow
Feeling like a weirdo, looking out my window
Wish the only voice in my head was my earphones
But I just hear bare lies near my earlobes
Scope the agenda, things to remember
The world move fast, it’s the same at the centre
Won’t go through the door they want me to enter
Won’t go to the place they want me to enter
Looking slender for winnin
They’re frowning but secretly grinnin
They know we’re in a blender
Ah temper temper
Don’t get mad, just get more bad show them your a contender
Avenger, coming for the ones they forgot, never stop
Whether your a politician or you’re on the block
I swear the ones that really call the shots, they never shot
Am I really happy how I’m living, what’s the cost?
That can be from offices or running to the opps
I swear that it’s a loss
It’s a cross that we make for ourselves, now we’re thinking it’s a lot
Thinking “should I not?”
Sitting on the dot, ay, what

Expectation is trouble
And when it cuts, yeah, it cuts double
The way I think, it should end up in a muddle
But I jump on the beat, speak, turn it into rubble
Rebuild like stubble
Big man business
I don’t play no more you’re a witness
They didn’t think i would hit em with the fitness
I will never get caught back in the lynches
Run for my life till I slice
That’s what happens when you push us to the side
We get denied, now you don’t get to decide
Get real close, see the dark on my eyes
Make a mark on your mind
You choose your path never mind
But mind how you step cause you’re marked in my sights
Ay you can’t fuck with the tides in my waves like 19 crimes
SECOND SONG

Vision of the future
Straining to see until my eyes turn fuchsia
Now I’m on a light speed cruiser to forward
And winding flows till the girls go looser
And who’s there? At the window frame
I can see a silhouette and yet I never peel away
Shades to reveal her face, it’s crazy early to seal her fate
Curse with affiliates
What’s converging to renovate interior
Life size cinema
Stretch the perimeter, I’ve never been a limiter
I’m tryna stay clipping
Man, I get this in
No, can’t catch a hold of this riddim
You would know if I didn’t
Cause I kill it every time, it’s a given
And when I’m giving this feeling, I’m feeling it to the fullest
Fuck off
Even when I know I shouldn’t and couldn’t, I’ll be the best
Ay tell them we’re the one, mmmm
Everyone get bun, mmmm
Since nobody’s son ayyy
I could never, I could never be d-d-d-d-done, ah
Just watch how I run
Charlie, I told them I’m the one, ayyyy
What? Don’t repeat myself like DJ khaled
I just get at it, leave man cabbage
I got the sauce, HP like magic
Gyallis, yeah I put a Queen in palace
Supreme with the dream, get cream, live lavish
Famish, hungry, eat then vanish
Ahh, cos I got bare baggage but I’m invincible like old school garage
And it’s, and it’s, and it’s me again
I don’t walk like that, let the sheep pretend
Seek amends
Nah, I don’t know fi dem
Becah they need me now, they didn’t need me then
Seek intense but I’m still chilling, cooling
Friends in the ends still billin, boozing
Yeah I wanna make a killing who’s in?
Which ones am I choosing?

Shit, I’m all, I’m all over the streets like Charlie
Call me the life of the party
I turn apartments into a Mardi Gras
Can’t you see? I’m a one man army
Money get flipped like I’m trained at karate
From 13 I was dripped in Armani
I moved on that’s basic malarkey
Uh, nah, don’t get arsey
Move like khaki, camo, got bare ammo
Every new track like blammo
Ah there’s no Mano et Mano
I’m in the mirror like “hello”
Hey, like, “hello”
Shit, I must be shallow
Uh, but I grew up paro
Harrow road to grove, p blocks narrow

Uh, and everywhere’s targets
Mmmm, from stock to block markets
Ay, so many unknown artists that couldn’t ever finish what they started
But they had the fire of you asked it
That’s foundation regardless
Them ones I listened in classes
Ay, yeah, them old school masters know the grease but still heat up a bastard
In the ford moving rash like Marcus
Pitch black with the kick back, get klarted
But I don’t wanna see no more martyrs
No more speeches, and marches
Yo, I just wanna talk margins
Cause I swear down words ain’t harmless
Nah, man I fist it, spark it
If I jump then I fly, no harness
Ay, where were you? This lights blinding
Can’t believe the state I find Im in
No trace how I spent my whole life fighting
Still I’m in touch with above like lightening
They get left like they’re stage right
Then I come through, take their girl
They’re dividing
Cause I don’t just flirt when I like them
Scratches are cool and I don’t mind writing
Biting, I don’t wanna talk
Don’t ask questions you don’t want the answer to
Why waste time on stains I can’t remove
Won’t take blame for things I hardly do
They say my sharp tongue might carve my tomb
No flames but that smoke is partly true
Too much fomos when I’m in a nasty mood
The height of my height might scar the roof
And I’m conkers they’re garden fruits
Night time hit the pavement in darker shoes
Hard to choose, so many routes to go
Who’s to know the flow until I carve the route
With these loose morals and twisted sights
Say she lookin for “Mr Right”
Nah, she just wanna hit tonight
Turn her on so much that I switched her mind, ah
Alright, when I’m in sight, get live
More time going all night, more life
Draw for the hair tie like turning my anime into a hentai

I’m ina your skin like an enzyme
Baseline coming in to your spine
They talk the talk but I walk fine lines
The type right to kill a mic like grime time mmmmm

Why they still asking for signs
Go deep in the vibe like diamond mines
I grew round violent crimes and island wines
No silent rides
Tour guide to your sore eye like Ruby
Bad man without the Gucci
But bougie if I feel choosy
Everybody asking “like, who’s he?”