[Verse 1]
Sitting in the studio, thinking about life
While you lot are sitting in the sun outside
Living in this city got me going out my mind
So ima show 'em a thing or two about writin'
Thinking about when we used to battle an' sh**
DRS will punch a rapper in his mouth quick
I'm tellin you the truth yo ask Semtex
When Mikayla put her nails in a guys eye-flesh
That was the first time i rhymed with our kid
Broke'n'£nglish laying it down like carpet
Momma used to get my shoes from the market
When I went to school they used to call me darkie
Costa del Salford; I grew up in the 80's
Think it's bad now? back then it was crazy
Had a fight with my best friend, name's Jackie
He cracked me in my face and then he called me a Paki
That's when I knew that I had to switch;
I hit him with a bat, said "I'm Jamaican, b**h"
Me and our kid went down the swimming baths
Came out a couple lads robbed our hats
They was big though so we couldn't do sh**
I went home told my mum she went sick
Weren't nuttin big though, still I think back
To when me and Alex took acid in cla**
Teacher said "John yo you look messed up"
I just stood up and said "get to f**"
In geography cla** having a bad trip
When i got suspended i thought 'is that it?'
[Chorus]
Cus its life on the Costa
I said it's life on the Costa
Hey yo we're living on the Costa
We're growin up on the Costa del Salford, b**h
This is life on the Costa
I said it's life on the Costa
What you know about the Costa?
We're living life on the Costa del Salford, b**h
[Verse 2]
Well I'm sittin in the studio thinking about stuff
I used to hate life but now I can't get enough
Spent my life in Salford and I ain't gone mad
So I know that this living thing ain't that bad
We used to call Higher Broughton 'Beirut'
Where the youts dem mainly aim to make loot
I was one of the only brown kids on the close
So I used to have fights by the football posts
Before mixed race they used to say halfcast
I was the darkest kid sittin in our cla**
When a kid tried to bully me i said i was spanish and my name was Antonio Vargas
Even though my grandad was a Jamaican
At seventeen he came through immigration
He was searching for a better life for his family so right now it's 'im I'm celebrating
Sittin in my studio thinking about that
And how i'm gonna put the Costa del on the map
b**h, you know the clique: Broke'n'£nglish
I stand up to the light; photosynthesis
The kids been about, yeah the kids done a lot
From Salford Precinct now i'm going to the top
The kids done a lot, yeah the kids been about
From Lower Broughton now I'm in with a shout
To any little kids thinking they can't make it
No matter where you're from haters can't say sh**
If anyones saying that you can't make it
Tell 'em "Strats said you can s** my dick" (in a bit b**h)
[Chorus]
Cus its life on the Costa
I said it's life on the Costa
Hey yo we're living on the Costa
We're growin up on the Costa del Salford, b**h
This is life on the Costa
I said it's life on the Costa
What you know about the Costa?
We're living life on the Costa del Salford, b**h. (in a bit)