This Is What I Mean Songtext
von Stormzy

It′s a bigger operation
What's with all the speculation?
Had to close the store for renovations
My cuzzy said, "Stormz, man, they′re runnin' out for patience, you know"
Time to make a statement
Time to free my mind of limitations
Finesse the majors, that's my form of reparations
They said, "You can′t slide, you′re a treasure to the nation," but

What they gonna do, what they gonna say?
Stormz got that sauce, this that bolognese
Talkin' ′bout the bread, like it correlates
I see you lookin' bothered with your bothered face
Even though we′re comin' from a common place
All I see is stars, like we in a Wraith
So, give him room to grow, and just give him space
And he could be a young, black Jimmy Napes

Ah, this is clean, this is clean
This is what I mean
I said, this is what I mean, yo


All my niggas got it, we unanimous
Cut from different cloth and different calibres
My skeleton is matchin′ with my managers'
She love me 'cah I′m handsome and I′m talented (boy, boy)
Hangin' off the banisters
Tell me, who′s gon' pay for all the damages?
Ah, I′m just reckless like the mandem is
Talkin' recky, we gon′ ask you where your manners is

I said it from a kid, you shoulda listened
I manifest the shit and then it happened
Said that I'ma do it, then it happens
(P2J up on the riddim and it's slappin′)
I shout my brother Giggs, that′s more than rappin'
Shout my sister Mel, we doin′ fashion (sheesh)
Ah, all this work that I've been mashin′
Put your boy in the position where I profit off my passion, alright

They don't know about the times I′ve bled
Give a fuck 'bout what the timeline said, I do your day streams
In a second, yeah, I shine like Ed
I thank God for the life I've led, then get the Wraith clean
I heard them sayin′ Grime ain′t dead
I'm Harry Styles, the way I fine-line tread, you′re goin' mainstream
Mind your business ′fore you mind my bread
If ten million weren't enough I make a life pledge, alright (boy, boy, boy)


This is what I mean
This is what I mean
This is what I mean
This is what I mean

Uh, I can′t address you niggas on the 'net, the disrespect
They don't wanna give me my respect, it′s disrespect
A nigga doin′ numbers, what the fuck did you expect?
They charge a nigga 50 every time I miss the jet
Ah, I guess I overslept
If she hold me down, then I might buy her a Patek
The mandem hold me back becah they know just how I get
Please don't hold my money, man, just wire me my check

I make a pay from your mother, ′cause it's lots on the beach
White bitches rollin′ in the deep
Nosediving off a yacht, into the sea (blah)
Still, I keep the blicky on me
Bitch, I'm off that thing already
You know I′m with a ting already
She a centerfold, a centrepiece
But she might like that chopper sing already
Bitch, I'm off that thing already
You know I'm with a ting already
They don′t wanna give my respect, the disrespect
Y′all gon' have to pay your daddy, but respect the chain

I don′t do things the rapper way
All that cappin' on the net will make the mandem blow a cap away
So, we just let them niggas @ away
I think I′m Kanye mixed with Donny Hathaway
I heard Sunday's the new Saturday (Saturday)
We praisin′ God, I watch my enemies evaporate
Hallelujah, to be honest, I could plan and do you
But I gotta rise away above it, word to Dan Kaluuya

No chance, buffalo stance on my Neneh Cherry
They wanna see the Michael that they see on telly
You man just remind me of my girl, why you never ready?
I'm the G.O.A.T but that ain't nothin′ I ain′t said already
Oh, please, all my enemies are dead and buried
I need that Häagen-Dazs, I need that Ben & Jerry's
If we do it, then we do it large, I′m on my Kevin Perry
This ain't the same man who said his head was heavy

(This is what I mean)
See say, if dey no one listen to
Bredda smoke them paigons they don′t deserve you
(This is what I mean)
Can't keep your name out their mouth
They say you do this and that, we are tired already
(This is what I mean)
Talk is cheap, I don′t do bare talkin'
Dis jiggas are quiet, bredda dey no for tell you
(This is what I mean)
See say, if dey no one listen to
Breddas smoke them paigons they don't deserve you

(This is what I mean)
This is what I mean
It′s just what I mean
This is what I mean, oh
(This is what I mean)
Ooh, what I mean, oh
It′s what I mean, oh
This what I mean, oh

(This is what I mean)
This is what I mean
This is what I mean
This is what I mean, oh
(This is what I mean)
This is what I mean, oh
This what I mean, oh