100 Phone Calls - Cadet

A sunset in Paris

A life that’s so careless

Word from the terrace

Watching the sunset in Paris

A sunset in Paris

A life that’s so careless

Word from the terrace

Watching the sunset in Paris

Aight, look!

So much has changed in the last year and I’m still adjusting

I never felt like a fuckboy but when I look back man I must’ve been

Cause me I weren’t chasing a dream

I was working the nine-to-five for some pricks and like

They couldn’t care about me

I was just another person to give a payslip

That 33.3 percent cycle of work, music and doing road but like

Work ain’t shit and I can’t do road for the rest of my life and I shoulda known

because

Me and my boy can do grimey shit

And that night he’d be kipping

But it’s like my conscience, it would keep me awake

And that’s how I know we different

You see look

Me, I’ve been around road yutes

And they love talking 'bout road (road)

And me I’ve been around trap yutes

And they love talking 'bout trap (trap)

And I don’t love road like those road yutes

And I can’t trap like those trap yutes

Ain’t no soft shit, I just know who I am

The same way them niggas can’t rap like man

But music I know that I do love so look

I’ma go chase me a dream

I’ma give it everything that I got

If it don’t work imma do road, it’ll be what it be

Anyway you know the build-up

So now I drop: 'slut' and get a bit of attention

But I ain’t used to this Twitter shit

He’s teaching me how to reply to mentions

Like don’t reply to that chick

Don’t reply to that bitch

He’s a troll he chat shit

Nah I never knew about this

I just know about bars I just know I wanna spit

But anyway look I’m in my motion

Video after video and shit’s going well look I’m in my motion

Giving the game so much emotion, but

They say when you start doing well people start changing

I can have a hundred phone calls, but only one conversation

There’s only one road to riches

There’s only one way to make it, see

Everybody fame-chasing but

They didn’t wanna trade places with me

And now they wanna trade places with me

But I need this and I breathe this me

Yeah this is me

A hundred phone calls but one conversation

Aight, that shit might make no sense, 'aight let me explain

Now everybody wanna question the kid

And them hugs turn into open hands it’s like

Ninety-nine phone calls to ask for a favour, one phone call to ask how I am

Now everybody wanna put on events and tell me how I can be the hardest

And wow look

Out of the blue it’s mad look, everybody knows how to manage a artist

They talk to me like I’m a business plan

But I don’t want this man I need this, my

Backup plan is jail or a dead-end job

I swear to you man I need this and

I ain’t in this 'ting just for the money

It’s all I got, no funny shit

Like rudeboy this is my life on the line

And my life is not your money flip

So I beg you don’t take my 'ting for joke, cuh

My life this 'ting done ain’t funny

See I look around and see bare sprinters but

Me I’m trained for the marathon

So of course I’m sticking around

I can’t get a nine-to-five doing the deadest shifts

I’ll be writing bars all over man’s notes

And getting fired for not selling shit

And like now they call me a story-teller

Are you fucking stupid?

Just because I don’t tell you lies about trap

Don’t mean you can categorise me as that

That ain’t 'a' story, that’s 'my' story

And this shit it might not be known to you

But a real artist, giving you his honest story, what man is supposed to do

But that ain’t even most reckless 'ting:

I be up every night on a restless 'ting, I’m

Really tryna get rid of tickets

But they’re phoning me like «Can you get man in?"Oh!

When it’s somebody that you know it’s a no

But for Bryson Tiller you be waiting by the phone no-show

See I won’t complain but know when I buss don’t say you supported from before

But know that I’m grateful for every view that I’ve had

Cause I remember getting a thousand views on YouTube and being gassed

You see, I’m overwhelmed and I’m grateful

But I burnt bridges of the wasteful

Who would snap girls bringing bottles to the table

But they never bring nothing to the table (but)

They say when you start doing well people start changing

I can have a hundred phone calls, but only one conversation

There’s only one road to riches

There’s only one way to make it, see

Everybody fame-chasing but

They didn’t wanna trade places with me

And now they wanna trade places with me

But I need this and I breathe this me

Yeah, yeah this is me (oh yeah)

Maybe I learnt too late

I got a candle that I’m really tryna burn two ways

And now they say I’m not grime man I get it cause don’t do shit in a commercial

way

And normally if I get nicked I’m like 'calm, just another night in a station'

But the last time I got nicked

I was like 'man I’m fucking up man’s situation

Which I can’t do, are you dumb?

Only gotta learn once

Because if my words can change the world

Then why the fuck am I biting my tongue

And I swear if you ask me for a pic, word I won’t say no

Because I remember being that same yute that you would ask to take the pic on

the phone, no shit

Now they’re saying that a nigga skilled cause I’m talking 'bout shit that’s

really real

You see look

They’re satisfied if they give you a hook

But I’m satisfied when I give a nigga thrills, no chill

This is what I’m talking about

I get passionate when I’m talking about

My life, see

Music I need this 'ting

And that feeling in your chest, I’m talking about

So, no

I won’t go back to the roads them

Getting back to the road

Do another wrong shit for the right reason

But for the right reason, man would get cracked on the road

There’s no more kitchen knives in the house

Big red hair in the back of the coat

Grabbing a car and driving past feds

Getting that lump in the back of my throat, so no

I ain’t going out like that (I'm Cadet)

I know I ain’t born that way

So plan A’s to be a fucking legend

And plan B is man’s plan A

You see, this is my sunset in Paris

I won’t stop until I own the game

Like as much MC’s as you want

Me and them yutes we are not the same

Man, I’m different!

They say when you start doing well people start changing

I can have a hundred phone calls, but only one conversation (one conversation)

There’s only one road to riches (uh)

There’s only one way to make it (one way)

Everybody fame-chasing but

They didn’t wanna trade places with me, uh

And now they wanna trade places with me

But I need this and I breathe this, this is me (I need this!)

Yeah this is me, uh

Yeah this is me